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  Forty-seventh 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  State 
  Museum. 
  

  

  Carex 
  Emmonsii 
  Dew. 
  var. 
  elliptica 
  Boott. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Eighteenth 
  Keport 
  on 
  the 
  State 
  Cabinet 
  of 
  Natural 
  

   History, 
  p. 
  155, 
  the 
  characters 
  of 
  this 
  sedge 
  are 
  published. 
  It 
  is 
  

   described 
  as 
  having 
  the 
  spikes 
  crowded 
  ; 
  the 
  perigynia 
  rather 
  

   long 
  OA-^o 
  °f 
  a 
  line 
  long, 
  -^ 
  broad), 
  hirsute, 
  nearly 
  twice 
  the 
  

   length 
  of 
  the 
  scale 
  ; 
  achenium 
  elliptical-triquetrous 
  (1-^ 
  of 
  a 
  line 
  

   long, 
  i 
  a 
  line 
  broad), 
  style 
  deciduous 
  at 
  the 
  base. 
  New 
  York, 
  

   Knieskern. 
  

  

  The 
  variety 
  has 
  a 
  longer 
  body 
  to 
  the 
  perigynium 
  and 
  a 
  longer 
  

   achenium, 
  and 
  the 
  pubescence 
  is 
  softer 
  and 
  longer, 
  and 
  the 
  pro- 
  

   portionate 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  perigynium 
  to 
  the 
  squamae 
  gives 
  a 
  pecu- 
  

   liar 
  aspect 
  to 
  the 
  spike. 
  It 
  has 
  not 
  been 
  noticed 
  by 
  authors 
  : 
  

   F. 
  Boott. 
  Penn 
  Yan 
  ; 
  Rochester, 
  Dewey. 
  

  

  This 
  sedge 
  has 
  not 
  to 
  this 
  day 
  been 
  properly 
  recognized 
  in 
  the 
  

   Manual. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  E. 
  C. 
  Howe, 
  who 
  has 
  made 
  a 
  special 
  study 
  of 
  carices 
  and 
  

   to 
  whom 
  specimens 
  of 
  this 
  plant 
  were 
  sent 
  for 
  examination, 
  con- 
  

   siders 
  it 
  a 
  good 
  species, 
  and 
  has 
  sent 
  the 
  following 
  description 
  of 
  

   it 
  under 
  the 
  name 
  

  

  Carex 
  Peckii 
  nov. 
  sp. 
  

   • 
  Stems 
  3 
  to 
  16 
  inches 
  high, 
  culm 
  leaves 
  2 
  to 
  5, 
  very 
  short, 
  nar- 
  

   row, 
  radical 
  leaves 
  3 
  to 
  10 
  inches 
  long, 
  about 
  one 
  line 
  broad; 
  

   staminate 
  spike 
  small, 
  sometimes 
  inconspicuous 
  ; 
  fertile 
  spikes 
  2 
  

   to 
  3, 
  aggregated, 
  the 
  two 
  uppermost 
  3 
  to 
  8-flowered, 
  the 
  lowest 
  

   2 
  to 
  6, 
  bracteate 
  ; 
  perigynia 
  1.5 
  to 
  nearly 
  2 
  lines 
  long, 
  about 
  

   half 
  as 
  wide, 
  elliptical- 
  triq 
  aetrous, 
  prominently 
  beaked, 
  strongly 
  

   hirsute, 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  ovate 
  acute 
  or 
  acutish-mucronate 
  scarious 
  

   margined 
  scale, 
  long 
  and 
  tapering 
  at 
  the 
  base; 
  scales 
  centrally 
  

   green, 
  the 
  sides 
  tinged 
  with 
  brown 
  or 
  purplish-brown; 
  achenia 
  

   triquetrous-elliptical, 
  strongly 
  3-ribbed, 
  promiLently 
  stipitate, 
  1 
  

   line 
  or 
  more 
  long. 
  

  

  Helderberg 
  mountains, 
  Albany 
  county 
  ; 
  Brown 
  ville, 
  Jefferson 
  

   county 
  ; 
  Elizabethtown, 
  Essex 
  county. 
  Also 
  collected 
  by 
  the 
  

   late 
  Professor 
  Dewey 
  in 
  Yates 
  and 
  Monroe 
  counties, 
  and 
  else- 
  

   where 
  in 
  New 
  York 
  by 
  the 
  late 
  Dr. 
  Knieskern. 
  

  

  The 
  largest 
  specimens 
  were 
  collected 
  at 
  Brown 
  ville, 
  the 
  small- 
  

   est 
  near 
  Elizabethtown. 
  The 
  plants 
  grow 
  in 
  thin 
  woods 
  or 
  their 
  

   borders 
  or 
  where 
  they 
  are 
  partly 
  shaded 
  by 
  trees. 
  The 
  specimens 
  

  

  