No. 14.] FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERNS. lOI 



Carex pubescens Muhl. (downy). 



Woods, thickets and half-shade, usually in moist rich soil. 

 Rare in New London County: North Stonington (Graves). 

 Becoming occasional along the coast westward and frequent in 

 northern districts. Late May — June. 



Carex livida (Wahlenb.) Willd. (pale lead-color). 



Rare. In bogs: New Haven (C. N. Shepard, 1830; O. D. 

 Allen ) . May — ^June. 



Carex panicea L. (like the Panic Grass). 



Rare or local. Fields and meadows: New Haven (O. D. 

 Allen), Orange (Eames & C. C. Godfrey). May — June. 

 Native or possibly naturalized from Europe. 

 Carex tetanica Schk. (rigid). 



Rare or local. Meadows and rocky woods : Waterford 

 (Graves), Sherman (E. H. Austin & Eames), Salisbury (M. 

 L. Fernald). Late May- — June. 



The var. Woodii (Dewey) Bailey occurs at Salisbury, in 

 a cool shaded bog (M. L. Fernald). 



Carex polymorpha Muhl. (of many forms). 



Rare. East Lyme, low woods (Graves), New Haven, 

 marshes (J. A. Allen, Andrews). June. 



Carex pallescens L. (rather pale). 



Common. Woods, fields and meadows, either wet or dry. 

 May — June. 

 Carex paupercula Michx. (stunted), var. pallens Fernald 

 (pale). 

 Carex Magellanica of Gray's Manual ed. 6 in part, not Lam. 

 Local. Norfolk, plentiful in a sphagnum bog (Bissell). 

 June. 

 Carex limosa L. (growing in mud). 



Rare. Sphagnum bogs: Burlington and Salisbury (Bis- 

 sell), Norfolk (J. W. Robbins, 1828; Weatherby). June. 



Carex littoralis Schwein. (of the sea-shore). 



Rare or local. Swampy woods in sandy soil : East Windsor 

 and South Windsor (Bissell), East Hartford (Weatherby), 

 Windsor (A. W. Driggs), Stratford (Harger). Late May- 

 early June. 



