1896. ] Notes on Carex. 7 
C. bullata, much more erect, looser; perigynium prominently 
ascending, long-pointed, coarsely several-nerved, little or 
not at all glossy nor red-brown at maturity, the beak 
rough and deeply toothed; achenium of characteristic shape, 
being very sharply triquetrous but short, each of the three 
angles being produced into a callous point at the middle, so 
as to make the achenium nearly equally six-sided. The peri- 
gynium is much larger than that of C. du//ata, more inflated 
and gradually tapering into the long beak.—In a swamp, 
‘‘growing as single individuals from runners,” Butler county, 
Missouri. Henry Eggert. My first impression of this carex 
was that it might be a hybrid, but studies of various speci- 
mens from collections by Mr. Eggert have led me to regard it 
as a good species. Mr. Eggert is also of the opinion that it 
isnot ahybrid. It is uniformly fruitful, which carex hybrids 
are not likely to be. 
CAREX ALBICANS Willd. in herb.; Spreng. Syst. Veg. 
3: 818. 1826. C. Emmonsii Dewey, var. elliptica Boott 
Illustr. 97, p/. 287. 1860. C. Peckii Howe, Rept. State Bot. 
N. Y. 1894, 40 (in 47th Rep. N. Y. Mus. Nat. Hist.). This 
is certainly a well-marked species, and, as Dr. Howe remarks, 
It is allied rather more to C. deflexa than to C. varia. It 
ranges from New England and Pennsylvania to Minnesota 
and northwards, and it probably occurs south of this limit. 
It is distinguished from C. varia by its lighter color, fewer 
and much shorter and broader leaves, which are greatly over- 
topped by the stiff straight culms, and by the closely glom- 
eratespikelets and mostly very inconspicuous staminate spike, 
and the rather longer perigynium. C. varia has slender and 
generally curved or weak culms which are commonly over- 
topped by the dark narrow and long-pointed profuse leaves, 
Mostly separated spikes and prominently protruding stam- 
inate spike. Willdenow’s name, C. a/bicans, is an appropri- 
ate one, denoting the light color of the plant, although it 
appears to have been chosen because of the light-colored 
spikes. Willdenow’s specimen is said to have come from 
North Carolina. Plate [ admirably distinguishes the species. 
9. “ CAREX GRANDIs Bailey, var. Helleri, n. var.—Differs 
from the species in the smallness of its stature and spikes 
(10-15"high), and narrow lax leaves; spikes two to three, 3 
to ;" long, contiguous near the top of the culm.—Franklin 
County, southeastern Virginia, ‘‘in the shade in a well wooded 
