﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  STATE 
  BOTANIST 
  12/ 
  

  

  peeling 
  the 
  bark 
  from 
  their 
  trunks, 
  and 
  I 
  fear 
  very 
  much 
  that 
  the 
  

   changed 
  conditions 
  thus 
  induced 
  will 
  soon 
  cause 
  the 
  disappearance 
  

   of 
  these 
  rare 
  plants 
  from 
  this 
  historic 
  locality. 
  

  

  • 
  Carex 
  Schweinitzii 
  Dew. 
  

  

  More 
  than 
  thirty 
  years 
  ago 
  Rev. 
  J. 
  A. 
  Paine 
  detected 
  this 
  rare 
  

   sedge 
  in 
  the 
  swamp 
  near 
  Cedarville. 
  It 
  still 
  exists 
  there, 
  growing 
  in 
  

   the 
  edge 
  of 
  the 
  swamp 
  in 
  a 
  springy 
  place 
  at 
  the 
  foot 
  of 
  a 
  hill. 
  It 
  was 
  

   found 
  by 
  myself 
  in 
  a 
  similar 
  locality 
  near 
  Pike, 
  Wyoming 
  county, 
  in 
  

   June. 
  

  

  Carex 
  livida 
  Willd. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  Oneida 
  county 
  plants 
  this 
  sedge 
  is 
  reported 
  as 
  

   abundant 
  on 
  the 
  State 
  marsh 
  in 
  Litchfield, 
  Herkimer 
  county. 
  A 
  re- 
  

   cent 
  visit 
  to 
  this 
  locality 
  failed 
  to 
  reveal 
  more 
  than 
  a 
  few 
  poorly 
  devel- 
  

   oped 
  specimens. 
  The 
  indications 
  are 
  that 
  this 
  rare 
  species 
  will 
  soon 
  

   disappear 
  entirely 
  from 
  this 
  locality. 
  

  

  Carex 
  filiformis 
  L. 
  

  

  This 
  sedge 
  sometimes 
  assumes 
  a 
  sort 
  of 
  dioecious 
  character. 
  On 
  

   one 
  of 
  the 
  marshes 
  in 
  Litchfield, 
  Herkimer 
  county, 
  some 
  plants 
  bore 
  

   only 
  staminate 
  spikes; 
  others 
  bore 
  only 
  a 
  single 
  pistillate 
  spike. 
  But 
  

   in 
  the 
  same 
  locality 
  other 
  plants 
  bore 
  both 
  staminate 
  and 
  pistillate 
  

   spikes 
  as 
  usual. 
  

  

  Carex 
  teretiuscula 
  prairea 
  Britton. 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  the 
  prevailing 
  form 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  in 
  all 
  the 
  cold 
  "cedar 
  

   swamps" 
  in 
  the 
  towns 
  of 
  Litchfield 
  and 
  Warren 
  in 
  the 
  southern 
  part 
  

   of 
  Herkimer 
  county. 
  The 
  typical 
  form 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  occurs 
  in 
  more 
  

   open 
  and 
  less 
  boggy 
  places. 
  Specimens 
  collected 
  in 
  Albany 
  county 
  

   many 
  years 
  ago 
  have 
  the 
  spikes 
  on 
  still 
  longer 
  branches, 
  and 
  thus 
  

   appearing 
  more 
  conspicuously 
  panicled. 
  This 
  is 
  Carex 
  prairea 
  Dew. 
  

   and 
  C. 
  teretiuscula 
  ramosa 
  Boott. 
  

  

  Festuca 
  duriuscula 
  Z. 
  

   Wet, 
  dripping 
  cliffs 
  along 
  the 
  Genesee 
  river 
  at 
  Portage. 
  The 
  speci- 
  

   mens 
  were 
  collected 
  near 
  the 
  high 
  bridge 
  of 
  the 
  N. 
  Y. 
  & 
  L. 
  E. 
  Rail- 
  

   road, 
  on 
  the 
  west 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  river. 
  The 
  culms 
  are 
  rather 
  slender, 
  

  

  