TORREYA 



Vol. 19 No. 7 



July, 1919 



THE SEDGES OF THE LAKE GEORGE FLORA wf^u v, 



By Stewart H. Burnham 



The collection and study of the Cyperaceae was begun in 

 1 891. It was Dr. Alvan Wentworth Chapman who awakened 

 my interest in carices: and who named and verified my earlier 

 collections, March 11, 1892 and Januar\' 18, 1893. In Gray 

 Memorial Botanical Chapter of the Agassiz Association Bull. 

 j: 7-8. 1893, there is a list of sixty-five "Carices" of Vaughns 

 and vicinity, compiled March 29, 1893. In this list Carex aperta, 

 C. Oederi and C. squarrosa should be eliminated. 



The region covered by the Flora includes the counties of 

 Washington, Warren and Saratoga. There are a few additional 

 records from Mt. Defiance, Ticonderoga, Essex County. Dr. 

 E. A. Burt collected carices about East Galway, Saratoga County, 

 about 1880: these are preserved in his herbarium and have been 

 verified by Dr. Ezra Brainerd. Mr. Frank Dobbin has collected 

 many sedges near Shushan and Cambridge in southern Washing- 

 ton county, specially from 1903 to 191 1. Dr. Chas. H. Hall 

 collected sedges in 1880 at Lake George, probably near Bolton: 

 these are preserved in the Herbarium of the Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden. Dr. E. C. Howe collected about Fort Edward and in 

 Hartford, from 1863' to 1866: and some of these specimens are 

 presumably preserved in the N. Y. State Herbarium and in the 

 Herbarium of the N. Y. Botanical Garden. Dr. Smith Ely 

 Jelliffe collected sedges about Huletts Landing, Lake George, 

 in 1 887-1 888: these may be found in his herbarium in New 

 York City. Dr. Chas. H. Peck also collected many sedges in 

 the territory; which are preserved in the N. Y. State Herbarium, 



There are many sedges, particularly carices, that have not 

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