BOTANICAL GAZETTE 293 
According to Rostafinski (Supplement to Monograph) 229 
. There 
species in all are known to science ave been found, up 
(Cooke) ; the “ Myxomycetes of United States” (Cooke) ; a list 
of all recorded American forms compiled from all published 
of Nat. Hist , 1876); the “New York State Reports ” (Peck) ; 
and “ Grevillea.” , 
Notes on Carex.—lIV. 
BY L. H. BAILEY, JR. 
1. Carex TricHocarpa, Muhil., Gram. 257 (1817). Culms 
slender, 2 or 3 feet high: leaves narrow (2 to 3 lines wide), long 
pointed, scabrous, the sheaths smooth: staminate spikes two or 
three together on a slender peduncle 2 to 5 inches long, their 
scales appressed, obtuse or nearly so, usually erose: pistillate 
spikes cylindrical (about 2 inches long and 4 or 5 lines wide), 
mostly loosely flowered towards the base, the lower on exserted 
igy marked with ridge- 
like nerves, broadly ovate at the base, tapering rather abruptly 
into a cylindrical beak which is tipped by nearly upright teeth a 
line ong, twice or more the length of the ovate sca 
wet grounds throughout the Northern States east 0 
SIppl. A form with nearly lanceolate perigynia and shorter 
from New York is the var. turbinala of Dewey, Sill. Journ. X1- 
159 (1876), male 
ar. IMBERBIS, Gray, Man. 5th ed. 597 (1867). Perigynio® 
Smooth, teeth usually shorter, pistillate scales longer and sheat ’ 
Seabrous.—New York, Sartwell, to’ Ulinois, S. B. Mead, E. Hal 
“Var. Dewryi. Staminate scales very acute, mostly loose: 
f the Missis- 
spikes 
