158 EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT ON THE STATE CABINET. 



RETROCURVA, Dewey. Drooping -fruited Carex. 



Copses. Pleasant valley of Oriskany creek, above the dam, Vasey. Penn- 

 Yan, Yates county, Sartwell. Rare. June. 



CONOIDEA, Schkuhr. Conical-fruited Carex. 



Wet meadows. Schenectady, a mile or more northeast of the Colleges. 

 Western part of the State, Gray Gram. ^ Cyp. Frequent in Yates county, 

 Sartwell. Scarce. June. 



GRISEA, Wahlenberg. Graxjfruited Carex. 



Moist woods, thickets, banks. Common. June. 



DIGITALIS, Willdenoiv. Finger-lenglh Carex. 



Shaded hillsides. Watertown, Jefferson county, Crawe, Gray Gram. 4* Cyp. 

 The true form from Jefferson county, Dewey. Dexter, Vasey. Yates county, 

 Sartwell. Frequent about Rochester, C. M. Booth. Wet meadows, Greece, 

 Monroe county, i.HoZzer. Uncommon. June. 



EBURNEA, Boott. Ivovyscaled Carex. 



Cliffs. Helderberg mountains, Pearson. Abundant at Littlefalls, south side 

 of the river. Trenton falls. Fish creek precipices, on Hudson river sand- 

 stones. Western part of the State, Gray Gram. ^- Cyp. Watertown, N.Y., 

 Crawe, Schwcin. ^ Torrey Carices. All along Crooked lake oniXei, Sartwell. 

 Wet woods. Shady borders of the swamp in West-Bergen, Genesee coun- 

 ty; in similar stations as those of C gynocrates and C. disperma. 



Scarce. June, July. 



GRANULARis, Muhlenberg. Granular-spiked Carex. 



Wet meadows, along streams. Common. 



var. RECTA, Dewey. Straight-beaked Granular-spiked Carex. 



Sterile meadows at Schenectady, a mile or more northeast of Union College: 

 abundant there. 



On the tops and sides of the Rotterdam hills occurs a form having short 

 wide root-leaves, broad foliaceous bracts, a single staminate spike sessile at 

 the base of and shorter than the highest fertile one, fertile spikes three or 

 four nearly sessile, perigynia long-ovoid and beakless. Rare. June. 



VAGiNATA, Tausch. Sheatked-culmed Carex. 



Spica mascula solitaria, pedunculata, oblonga, sub anthesi infracta, femi- 

 neis subbinis, ternisve, exserte pedunculatis, remotis, erectis, oblongis, 

 laxifloris ; bracteis foliaceis, vagina dilatata patula ; stigmatibus tribus ; 

 utriculis squama apice carinata longioribus, oviformi-triangularibus, basi 

 attenuatis, glabris, rostro brevi, inaequaliter bidentato ; culmo laevi, striate, 

 basi foliato ; foliis margine sursum scabris ; caudice stolonifero : Kunze 

 Suppl. zu Schkuhr Kiedgr. 



Plants growing in large patches, from creeping roots. Stolons three to 

 ten inches in length ; invested with sheaths about as long as the nodes. 

 Leaves radical ; very long, twelve to eighteen inches ; very narrow, only 

 a line and a half wide ; glabrous, but rough on the margin from base to 

 end ; acuminate ; light green. Culms one to two and a half feet in length, 

 usually about twenty inches ; with one to three sheaths at base prolonged 

 into short leaves ; compressed, flat ; striate ; smooth or harsh above on 

 the ridges ; filiform, weak, leaning from the root with its spikes bending 

 over nearly to the ground, or the whole stem reclining on the leaves ; 

 sheathed toward the end. Sheaths from knots of the culm, cylindrical for 

 about an inch, then open and ending as short narrow sharp bracts ciliate 

 or scabrous margined ; enclosing the peduncles of the fertile spikes and 

 sometimes the fruit itself. Peduncles a little longer than the sheaths, rare- 

 ly four inches long if rising from near the root, slender, erect or when 

 elongated drooping with the fruit. Fertile spikes usually two, often only 



