﻿Report 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  Botanist. 
  165 
  

  

  tended 
  by 
  1 
  to 
  6 
  perigynia, 
  or 
  sometimes 
  one 
  or 
  more 
  wholly 
  

  

  staminate, 
  the 
  lowest 
  one 
  either 
  with 
  or 
  without 
  an 
  exceedingly 
  

  

  slender 
  setaceous 
  bract 
  ; 
  perigynia 
  either 
  horizontally 
  spreading 
  

  

  or 
  conspicuously 
  deflexed. 
  Cooperstown 
  Junction. 
  June. 
  

  

  This 
  plant 
  seems 
  to 
  approach 
  variety 
  Texensis 
  but 
  it 
  differs 
  in 
  

  

  its 
  distant 
  spikes, 
  deflexed 
  perigynia 
  and 
  conspicuous 
  staminate 
  

  

  flowers. 
  

  

  Carex 
  aestivalis 
  Curt, 
  

  

  This 
  rare 
  sedge 
  is 
  plentiful 
  on 
  the 
  high 
  wooded 
  hills 
  near 
  East 
  

  

  Worcester. 
  It 
  grows 
  both 
  in 
  the 
  woods 
  and 
  in 
  open 
  places 
  by 
  

  

  the 
  roadside. 
  

  

  Carex 
  retrocurva 
  Deio. 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  C. 
  laxiculmis 
  Sch 
  w,.in 
  the 
  Manual. 
  It 
  has 
  a 
  form 
  serotina 
  y 
  

   in 
  which 
  the 
  new 
  growth 
  of 
  tbe 
  season, 
  after 
  the 
  usual 
  fruiting 
  

   time, 
  sends 
  up 
  short 
  culms 
  and 
  produces 
  another 
  crop 
  of 
  fruit. 
  

   In 
  this 
  case 
  the 
  pedicels 
  are 
  rather 
  short 
  and 
  erect 
  and 
  the 
  spikes 
  

   are 
  few 
  flowered. 
  Taberg 
  and 
  Helderberg 
  mountains. 
  

  

  Carex 
  debilis 
  Mx. 
  

  

  A 
  variety 
  interjecta 
  Bailey 
  in 
  litt. 
  to 
  C. 
  L. 
  Shear, 
  was 
  discovered 
  

   by 
  Mr. 
  Shear 
  near 
  Alcove, 
  Albany 
  county 
  > 
  and 
  has 
  since 
  been 
  

   found 
  by 
  myself 
  near 
  Pierrepont 
  Manor, 
  Jefferson 
  county. 
  1\ 
  

   fruits 
  in 
  June. 
  It 
  differs 
  from 
  the 
  ordinary 
  form 
  in 
  its 
  shorter 
  

   perigynia, 
  which 
  by 
  being 
  loosely 
  arranged 
  on 
  the 
  rachis 
  often 
  

   give 
  a 
  moailiform 
  appearance 
  to 
  the 
  fertile 
  spikes. 
  The 
  stami- 
  

   nate 
  spike 
  usuallj 
  7 
  has 
  2 
  to 
  4 
  perigynia 
  a 
  short 
  distance 
  below 
  its 
  

   apex. 
  Sometimes 
  the 
  fertile 
  spikes 
  are 
  also 
  conspicuously 
  stami- 
  

   nate 
  at 
  the 
  apex, 
  and 
  occasionally 
  one 
  has 
  a 
  short 
  branch 
  at 
  its 
  

   base. 
  

  

  Yar. 
  strictior 
  Bailey. 
  A 
  form 
  of 
  this 
  variety, 
  having 
  culms 
  12 
  

  

  to 
  18 
  inches 
  high 
  and 
  yellowish 
  green 
  foliage, 
  occurs 
  near 
  East 
  

  

  Worcester. 
  June. 
  The 
  broad 
  leaves 
  overtop 
  tbe 
  culms 
  and 
  the 
  

  

  spikes 
  are 
  noticeably 
  erect. 
  

  

  v 
  

   Carex 
  CEderi 
  JEhrk. 
  

  

  This 
  sedge 
  was 
  found 
  growing 
  with 
  G. 
  flava 
  on 
  the 
  shores 
  of 
  

   Thompson's 
  lake, 
  Albany 
  county. 
  The 
  two 
  were 
  so 
  markedly 
  

   different 
  in 
  appearance 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  very 
  unsatisfactory 
  to 
  me 
  to 
  

   make 
  the 
  former 
  a 
  variety 
  of 
  the 
  latter, 
  as 
  is 
  done 
  by 
  some 
  

   botanists. 
  

  

  