48 



r 



shorter and heavier; perigynium mostly larger. — Woods, central 

 Michigan, where it is common. In aspect much like C. laxiail- 

 mis, but has no glaucousncss, the upper spikes are shorter pedun- 

 cled, and minor characters also separate them, I find it to be 

 connected with C, digitalis by intermediate forms. 



58. — Carex PTYCHOCARPA, Steudel, PI. Cyper. 234(1855), v. 



s, Hb. Boott. (Drummond, 424) ; Boeckl. Linnasa, xli. 147 



(1877); Bailey, Proc. Amer. Acad, Arts and Sci. xxii. 

 116 (1886). 

 Low, the culm two. to five inches high, and a half or less 

 shorter than the glaucous leaves, which are ]^ inch or less wide ; 

 staminate spike small and sessile and usuually overtopped by the 

 upper pistillate spike; pistillate spikes lax-flowered, the upper 

 sessile, and only the lowest long-peduncled ; bracts leafy, broad 

 and elongated. Purgatory Swamp, near Boston, Faxon, 

 Morong ; New Jersey, Britton ; Delaware, Canhy ; Florida, 

 Chapman, Ctcrtiss ; New Orleans, Di'ummond. 



Var. MACROPHYLLA. 



C, digitalis, vd.x. glatica, Chapm. Flora, S. States, 541 -(i860), 

 V. s. Hb. Torn 



Leaves very broad (^ in. or more), two to three times longer 

 than the culm (i to 1 J^ ft. long), prominently many-nerved and 

 very glaucous. Florida, Chapman, A singular plant. 



59.— Carex Jamesii, Schweinitz, Ann. N. Y. Lye. Nat. Hist. i. 



Q'] (1824), V. s. Hb. Schw. 



C Steiidclii, Kunth, Enum. PL ii. 480 (1837), v. s. Hb. 

 Berol. 



When Schweinitz proposed this species, C Stcudelii had not 

 been separated from C, Willdcnovii, and Schweinitz and Torrey 

 a year later referred this species to C Willdenovii. Torrey *s C 

 Jamesii must now take another name : 



60. — Carex NebraSKENSIS, Dewey, Sill. Journ. (H.), xviii. 102 



(1854), V. s. Hb. Torn 



C Jamesii, van Nebraskcnsis^ Bailey, Carex Cat. Suppl. 



(1884). 



