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Notes on Carex—VI. 
BY L. H. BAILEY, JR. 
_1. The half-dozen most critical and trying groups of Carices, 
een the Manual region, may be named as follows: (1) The 
os gd group, including CC. scoparia, lagopodioides, cristata 
li var. mirabilis; (2) C. laxiflora and its varieties, with CC 
wgocarpa and digitalis; (3) CC. stricta, aperta and vulgaris; (4) 
-Straminea and its varieties; (5) @. Pennsylvanica and a 
Senin allies, CC. varia, Emmonsii and Nove-Angli, and even 
ees (6) CC. aristata, trichocarpa, sen nag bla 
Se C. Pennsylvanica and C. varia are apparently distinct. I 
_ Should define and contrast them as follows: — 
lea -Pennsyiyvanrca Lam. Stoloniferous, forming large patches: 
m res usually as long as the mostly slender culms (which are com- 
only less than ten inches high), narrow, soft and grass-like : 
tt one to three, approximate, usually contiquous (the two lowest 
— rarely more than a half inch apart), globose, all closely sessile, 
monly more or less dark eolored. 
(13 li VARIA Muhl, Not stoloniferous: stouter: leaves broader 
"7 ‘Ines to 2 lines), usually shorter than the more or less prolonged 
ban are from ten inches to two feet high), gid : 
Pures three to five, globose or oblong, scattered (from 
Sete sonspl ‘ e very large forms 
with Se ainaptale by a conspicuous Hee Sapa B ‘perigee 
. type by Dr. Boott, and the more ordinary forms are referred 
Capel worth while, however, f° make 
Such a division. 
ke C. Bebbii Olney I referred to C. lagopo 
Y Carex Catalog. I have sharp notes 
dioides in my prelim- 
from correspondents 
