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retrocurva, Dewey. Drooping-fruilxd Carex. 



Copses. Pleasant valley of Oriskany creek, above the dam, Vasey. Penn- 

 Yan, Yates county, Sartwell. Rare. June. 



conoidea, Schkuhr. Conical-fruited Carex. 



Wet meadows. Schenectady, a mile or more northeast of the Colleges. 

 Western part of the State, Gray Gram. <§• Cyp. Frequent in Yates county, 

 Sartwell. Scarce. June. 



grisea, Wahlenberg. Gray-fruited Carex. 



Moist woods, thickets, banks. Common. June. 



digitalis, Willdenow. Finger-length Carex. 



Shaded hillsides. Watertown, Jefferson county, Crawe, Gray Gram. § Cyp. 

 The true form from Jefferson county, Dewey. Dexter, Vasey. Yates county, 

 Sartwell. Frequent about Rochester, C. M. Booth. Wet meadows, Greece, 

 Monroe county, L.Holzer. Uncommon. June. 



eburnea, Boott. Ivory-scaled Carex. 



Cliffs. Helderberg mountains, Pearson. Abundant at Littlefalls, south side 

 of the river. Trenton falls. Fish creek precipices, on Hudson river sand- 

 stones. Western part of the State, Gray Gram, fy Cyp. Watertown, N.Y., 

 Crawe, Schwein. § Torrey Carices. All along Crooked lake outlet, Sartwell. 

 Wet woods. Shady borders of the swamp in West-Bergen, Genesee coun- 

 ty; in similar stations as those of C gynocrates aud C. disperma. 



Scarce. June, July. 



granularis, Muhlenberg. Granular-spiked Carex. 



Wet meadows, along streams. ' . Common. 



var. recta, Dewey. Straight-beaked Granular-spiked Carex. 



Sterile meadows at Schenectady, a mile or more northeast of Union College: 

 abundant there. 



On the tops and sides of the Rotterdam hills occurs a form having short 

 wide root-leaves, broad foliaceous bracts, a single staminate spike sessile at 

 the base of and shorter than the highest fertile one, fertile spjkes three or 

 four nearly sessile, perigynia long-ovoid and beakless. Rare. June. 



VAGinata, Tausch. Sheathed-cuhned Carex. 



Spica mascula solitaria, pedunculata, oblonga, sub anthesi infracta, femi- 

 neis subbinis, ternisve, exserte pedunculatis, remotis, erectis, oblongis, 

 laxifloris ; bracteis foliaceis, vagina dilatata patula ; stigmatibus tribus ; 

 utriculis squama apice carinata longioribus, oviformi-triangularibus, basi 

 attenuatis, glabris, rostro brevi, ina;qualiter bidentato ; culmo laevi, striato, 

 basi foliato ; foliis margine sursum scabris ; caudice stohmifero : Kunze 

 Suppl. zu SchJcuhr Riedgr. 



Plants growing in large patches, from creeping roots. Stolons three to 

 ten inches in length ; invested with sheaths about as long as the nodes. 

 Leaves radical ; very long, twelve to eighteen inches ; very narrow, only 

 a line and a half wide ; glabrous, but rough on the margin from base to 

 end ; acuminate ; light green. Culms one to two and a half feet in length, 

 usually about twenty inches; with one to three sheaths at base prolonged 

 into short leaves ; compressed, flat ; striate ; smooth or harsh above on 

 the ridges ; filiform, weak, leaning from the root with its spikes bending 

 over nearly to the ground, or the whole stem reclining on the leaves ; 

 sheathed toward the end. Sheaths from knots of the culm, cylindrical for 

 about an inch, then open and ending as short narrow sharp bracts ciliate 

 or scabrous margined ; enclosing the peduncles of the fertile spikes and 

 sometimes the fruit itself. Peduncles a little longer than the sheaths, rare- 

 ly four inches long if rising from near the root, slender, erect or when 

 elongated drooping with the fruit. Fertile spikes usually two, often only 



