156 EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL REPOKT ON THE STATE CABINET, 



VESTiTA, Willdenow. Hair-clothed-fruited Carex, 



Sandy copses. Pine plains of Schenectady, iLMies&ern : Pearson: Tucker- 

 man: F.Boott. Kare. June. 



puBESCENSy 3fuhL Pubescent Carex. 



Open rich woods, river-bottom meadovrs. Banks of the Mohawk river op- 

 posite Whitesboro, on sandy sidehilis. Meadows, Oriskany. Knieskern. 

 Watertown. Jefferson county, Gray Gram. ^ Cyp. 



Occasionally a specimen occurs having an additional fertile spike on a long 

 slender peduncle, nearly radical. Infrequent. June. 



FLAVA, L. Yellow Carex, 



Low grounds, meadows, swamps, shores; most abundant in limestone soils.- 

 Littlefalls; Mud lake; swamp of Cedarville; between Day's confers and 

 Cedar lake 5 around Cedar lake? on Hidden lake and the State marsh, 

 Litchfield: south Herkimer county. Utica, Oriskany, Knieskern. Swamps of 

 Rome, west of Fort Bull. Trenton falls, on the rocks opposite the tipper 

 falls, in the spray; a small form. Abundant between Steuben station and 

 BoonvJUe-y and common along the wet banks of North pond. 



Frequent. June - August. 



OEDERi, Ehrhart. Oederian Carex. 



Wet banks. Shore of Lake Ontario iiear Sackett's-harbor, Crawe, Gray 

 Gram. Sf Cyp. Watertown, Jefferson county, Vasey. Abundant in the swamp 

 of West-Bergen, Genesee county, a large form. Rare. June, July. 



FOLLICULATA, L. Inflated- fruited Carex. 



Swamps. Frankfort hill, ronnd Wet more's bear-pond. Oriskany and Oneida 

 \di\ze, Knieskern. Western partof the State, G'?-ay in Rare plants of N orthern 

 N.Y.: Gram. Sf Cyp. Abundant in the shady swamps of Rome, from old 

 Fort Bull to New-London. Sphagnum swale adjoining North pond. Abun- 

 dant on the borders of beaver-meadows and swamps of the north woods. 



In marshes occasionally it occnrs not over a span high, with two or three 

 full-sized heads of fruit; and at the same time, within a few feet, on firmer 

 ground, it grows to the height of four feet or more. Frequent. June, July. 



KOSTRATA, 3Iichaux, Rostrate-fruited Carex. 



Shores and elevated marshes. Overflowed sandy point on the south side of 

 Fourth lake in the chain of Eight; abundant on the level marshes surround- 

 ing two ponds, at each end of Bald rock; north Herkimer county. 



In bogs, dwarf forms are found, five or six inches high, with two or three 

 perfect heads of fruit. Rare. June - August. 



INTUMESCENS, Rudge. Swollen-fruited Carex. 



Wet meadows and swamps. Common. June, July. 



GRAYii, Carey, Discovered by Gray. 



Spica mascula solitaria pedunculata ; spicis fceminei^^globosis densi- 

 ( 25 — 30-} floris exserte pedunculatis ; stigmatibus 3,; perigyniis dellexo- 

 patentibus ovatis ventricosis multi-nervosis rostratis ore bifidis squamam 

 ovatam hyalinam mucronatam triple superantibus. 



Hab. Ad ripas fluminum '* Mohawk" et ''Wood creek," Nov. Ebor. 

 Occident, detexit cl. A. Gray, M.D. 



Culm 3 feet high, robust, triquetrous, smooth and leafy. Leaves taller 

 than the culm, 4-5 lines broad, rough on the margin. Sterile spike 

 1 -g — 2 inches long : fertile spikes globular, occasionally single, but gene- 

 rally 2, quite distinct and separate, i-^ inch in diameter. Perigynia 

 crowded, deflexed, smooth and shining, 9 lines in length, 25 - 30-nerved, 

 tapering into a long perfectly glabrous beak. Achenium obtusely triangu- 

 lar, minutely dotted under a lens, crowned with the long continuous style. 



Dr. Gray, who first detected this plant on the banks of the Mohawk at 

 Utica, and described it as a variety of C. intumescens, Rudge, remarks that 



