﻿Refort 
  of 
  tee 
  State 
  Botanist, 
  167 
  

  

  were 
  collected 
  in 
  June. 
  Doctor 
  Howe 
  considers 
  the 
  species 
  

   related 
  to 
  Carex 
  deflexa 
  rather 
  than 
  to 
  C. 
  Emmonsii. 
  Both 
  its 
  

   peculiar 
  appearance 
  and 
  its 
  distinctive 
  spikes 
  and 
  fruit 
  lead 
  me 
  

   also 
  to 
  think 
  it 
  is 
  a 
  valid 
  species. 
  

  

  Carex 
  Houghtonii 
  Torr. 
  

   ?J"ear 
  Elizabethtown. 
  May. 
  This 
  rare 
  species 
  has 
  been 
  

   observed 
  in 
  several 
  places 
  by 
  Prof. 
  Burt 
  and 
  myself 
  in 
  Saratoga 
  

   and 
  Essex 
  counties, 
  but 
  I 
  am 
  not 
  aware 
  of 
  its 
  occurrence 
  else- 
  

   where 
  in 
  the 
  State 
  It 
  is 
  an 
  early 
  flowering 
  species, 
  and 
  delights 
  

   in 
  light 
  sandy 
  soil, 
  through 
  which 
  it 
  extends 
  its 
  creeping 
  

   root 
  stocks. 
  

  

  Carex 
  utriculata 
  JBoott. 
  

  

  A 
  small 
  form 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  is 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  Adirondack 
  region. 
  

   Its 
  spikes 
  are 
  scarcely 
  more 
  than 
  an 
  inch 
  long, 
  being 
  smaller 
  

   even 
  than 
  those 
  of 
  variety 
  minor. 
  

  

  Setaria 
  viridis 
  Bv. 
  

   The 
  form 
  of 
  this 
  grass 
  noticed 
  in 
  the 
  Thirty-fourth 
  Report, 
  p. 
  

   56, 
  still 
  persists 
  about 
  Albany 
  and 
  in 
  its 
  streets 
  and 
  yards. 
  The 
  

   same 
  or 
  a 
  similar 
  form 
  is 
  said, 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Yasey 
  in 
  his 
  Monograph 
  of 
  

   the 
  Grasses 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  and 
  Canada, 
  p. 
  38, 
  to 
  occur 
  in 
  the 
  

   South. 
  It 
  is 
  easily 
  distinguished 
  from 
  the 
  ordinary 
  form 
  of 
  the 
  

   species, 
  and 
  appears 
  to 
  be 
  very 
  constant 
  in 
  its 
  characters. 
  I 
  have 
  

   labeled 
  our 
  specimens 
  Yar. 
  purpurascens, 
  and 
  the 
  grass 
  has 
  

   been 
  published 
  and 
  essentially 
  characterized 
  under 
  this 
  name 
  by 
  

   Prof. 
  Dudley 
  in 
  his 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  Cayuga 
  plants, 
  p. 
  122. 
  Its 
  

   spike 
  like 
  panicle 
  is 
  more 
  slender 
  than 
  in. 
  the 
  type, 
  2.5 
  to 
  3 
  inches 
  

   long, 
  about 
  6 
  lines 
  broad, 
  including 
  the 
  seta?, 
  2.5 
  to 
  3 
  lines 
  exclu- 
  

   sive 
  of 
  the 
  setaa, 
  the 
  clusters 
  toward 
  the 
  base 
  separated 
  and 
  

   verticillate 
  as 
  in 
  S. 
  verticillata, 
  the 
  setae 
  tinged 
  with 
  purple. 
  

   Its 
  resemblance 
  to 
  S. 
  verticillata 
  is 
  closer 
  than 
  to 
  S. 
  viridis 
  but 
  

   its 
  seta? 
  are 
  barbed 
  upwards. 
  

  

  Festuca 
  ovina 
  L. 
  

  

  The 
  sheep's 
  fescue 
  is 
  rare 
  with 
  us. 
  A 
  small 
  patch 
  of 
  it 
  was 
  

   observed 
  on 
  the 
  banks 
  of 
  the 
  Delaware 
  river 
  at 
  JSTarrowsburo\ 
  

   July. 
  The 
  specimens 
  have 
  the 
  tall 
  culms 
  of 
  variety 
  duriuscula, 
  

   but 
  the 
  panicle 
  is 
  contracted 
  and 
  the 
  leaves 
  involute. 
  

  

  