PLANTS OF ONEIDA COUNTY AND VICINITY. 149 



MARiTiMUs, L. Seaside Scirpus. 



Beaches, shore-marslies. Sandy banks at Salina and of Onondaga lake: 

 where all manner of forms abound, from a depauperate one and the smallest 

 siz3, up to the ordinary and highest states. Local inland. 



var. MACROSTACHYOS, Michaux. Large-headed Scirpus. 



Marshes of Salina at the head of the lake. Abundant here, but local. 



August - October. 



FLUViATiLis, Gray. River Scirpus. 



Lake and river-marshes. Gravelly shores of Canaderaga lake, Otsego coim- 

 ty ; where it was discovered by Dr. Gray in the year 1832. Borders of Oneida 

 lake, Knieskern. Common in the western parts of the State of New-York, 

 Gray, Torrey Cyp. Y'ates county, Sartwell in herb. Ham. Coll. Irondequoit 

 bay of Lake Ontario, i. Ifo/cer. Rare. August. 



STLVATicus, L. Woodland Scirpus. 



var. ATROVIRENS, Gray. Bark-green Scirpus. 



Low meadows, swamps. Common. July. 



POLTPHTLLTJS, Vahl. Many-leaved Scirpus. 



Borders of wet woods and thicket-swamps. Near Penn-Yan, Yates county: 

 Lockport, Niagara county: Sartwell. Rare. July. 



LINEATUS, Michx. Linc-scaled Scirpus. 



Swamps. Ontario county, Sartwell in herb. Ham. Coll. Rare. July. 



ERIOPHORUM, Michx. Wool-hearing Scirpus. 



Low grounds. Common. 



var. CYPERINUS, Gray. Cyperus-like Scirpus. 



"Wet places on Bald rock, north Herkimer county. 



var. LAXUS, Gi'ay. Loose-fruiting Scirpus. 



Marshes of the north woods. Borders of Oswego river. August. 



ERIOPHORUM, L. Cottoii- grasses. Eriophora. 



ALPINUM, L. Alpine Eriophorum. 



Cold moss marshes. Oriskany swamp, Knieskern: Gray.- Vasey. Abundant 

 on the extensive sphagnum swales bej'ond Rome, both sides of the Oswego 

 county road. Tufts on the surface of Hidden lake, Litchfield; and on the 

 borders of Mud lake; south Herkimer county. Rare. June. 



VAGINATU3I, L. Sheathed- culmed Eriophorum. 



Elevated swamps. Shaky sphagnum flats surrounding TYetmore's pond on 

 Frankfort hill. Watertown and Utica, Gray, Torrey Cyp. Abundant in deep 

 sphagnous swamps on the pine plains six miles west of Rome. Rare. June. 



VIRGIN icuM, L. Virginian Eriophorum. 



Sphagnum bogs. Frankfort hill. Paris hiU. Oriskany. Rome. South Trenton. 

 Near North pond. Common in the north woods. August. 



POLYSTACHYON. L. Many-spiked Eriophorum. 



Wet meadows, grassy bogs. Common. 



var. ANGUSTiFOLiUM, Gray. Narrow-leaved Eriophorum. 



Cedar and moss-swamps. Western part of the State; Oriskany swamp; 

 Brookfield, Madison county; Gray. Sphagnum bog southeast of Oriskany, 

 on the hill. North Herkimer county marshes, at the edges of woods. 



Rare. July. 



