ADDISONIA 71 
(Plate 36) 
CYMOPHYLLUS FRASERI 
Fraser’s Sedge 
Native of the southern Alleghanies 
Family CyPERACEAE SepcE Family 
Carex Fraseri Andr. Bot. Rep. 10: pl. 639. Je 1811. 
Carex Fraseriana Gawler; Bot. Mag. 34: pl. 1391. Jl 1811. 
Cymophyllus Fraseri Mackenzie; Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. ed. 2.1: 441. 1913, 
A perennial sedge with short rootstocks sending up culms six to 
eighteen inches long, clothed at base with four to six overlapping 
bladeless sheaths. After flowering one large blade-bearing leaf is 
i idrib. 
perigynia are milk-white in color, the anthers yellowish-white, and 
the long slender filaments and the stigmas reddish-brown. The 
style. The three stigmas are rather short and thi 
This sedge has been in cultivation in the New York Botanical 
Garden since 1900. Plants of it may be found at the base of the 
rocks, just south of the pergola in the herbaceous grounds; the large 
leaves remain green well into the winter. Our illustration was 
prepared from a drawing of one of these plants. 
It was first brought to the attention of botanists by Fraser, 
who collected it in the autumn of 1808 near Table Mountain and 
upon the banks of the Catawba River in the neighborhood of Mor- 
gantown, North Carolina. Since then it has been collected in a 
number of localities in the mountains of western North Carolina, 
and has also been found in the mountains of eastern Tennessee, 
southwestern Virginia and West Virginia. It was apparently 
first described by Andrews in 1811 in the Botanists’ Repository, 
but he was little ahead of Gawler (afterward Ker), who in the 
same year described the plant in Curtis’s Botanical Magazine (34: 
pl. 1319) as Carex Fraseriana. Both Andrews and Gawler pub- 
lished very fair colored plates. Since their time no other colored 
