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Carex seorsa E. C. Howe. On May 30, 1903, a Carex was 

 discovered in a swamp at Dune Park, which I was unable to 

 identify with any given in our handbooks. Having a copy of 

 M. L. Fernald's Northeastern Carices of the Section Hyparrhenae, 

 pubHshed in the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts 

 and Sciences, Vol. 38, No. 17, it was traced to this species. 

 Having received by the Gray Herbarium, soon after this time, 

 a set of the Plantae Exsiccatae Grayanae, sheet No. 50 of which 

 is an example of this species collected at Canton, Mass., a direct 

 comparison was made. It is doubtless rare in this region as I 

 have seen it in this locality only. 



Carex scirpoides Schkuhr. var. capillacea (Bailey) Fernald, a 

 closely related species, grows in the same swamp. This was 

 submitted for identification to C. F. Wheeler who named it 

 C. interior capillacea Bailey. The latter has much narrower more 

 or less involute leaves, almost setaceous sometimes toward the 

 ends, and the perigynia broadest at the base. Both grow in 

 mats but the weak stems of the latter soon fall over and lie 

 almost flat on the ground. The swamp where these species were 

 collected is mainly one of Betula lutea and Pinus Strohus, with 

 abundant shrubs of Rhus vernix and Vaccinium corymbosum 

 around whose bases are dense beds of Sphagnum. Of the two 

 Carex seorsa appears to be earlier in fruiting, as its perigynia 

 on May 30, 1903, are in about the same stage of advancement as 

 those of the variety of C. scirpoides collected July 4, 1906. Some 

 but not all of those of C. seorsa are as far advanced in a collection 

 made May 2, 1908. 



CEnothera speciosa Nutt. This was obtained in the same rail- 

 way cut as Agropyron Smithii, July 4, 1910. It grew upon the 

 sides of the cut from close beside the roadbed up to the margin 

 of the pasture above, since it readily spreads in the gravelly 

 bank. Though of low growth its large white flowers make it 

 very showy as well as ornamental. Mr. James H. Ferris, of 

 Joliet, well known for his interest in ferns, had taken some plants 

 from the locality and had a fine bed of them growing in his 

 garden. He first called my attention to the plant at this place, 

 which must have come in later than 1 902-1 904. 



