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Culm l^ foot high, slender, erect, leafy toward the root; staminate 

 spike slender, sometimes with a few fruit at the apex, in the middle or at 

 the base ; pistillate spikes 3-4, cylindric, slender, rather loose-flowered, 

 on slender peduncles with sheathing bracts which equal the culm nearly; 

 stigmas 3 ; fruit oval, tapering below and conic above, smooth and gla- 

 brous, nearly twice longer than the oblong acutish scale which is white 

 on the margin and green on the back : whole plant light green. 



This plant is the well-known glabrous form of C. flexuosa, Schkuhr, the 

 C. debilis, Michaux, and blended with it, till Dr. Boott separated them in 

 1860 : Dewey in Sill. Jour. 



The glabrous form of the old C. flexuosa; this was extended to C. debilis, 

 Michaux, and then was remote from C. glabra, Boott : received from Rome 

 or Oriskany, Dewey. Local. June. 



ARCTATA, Boott. Contracted-beaked Carex. 



Shady banks. Littlefalls, south side of the river below the town. Ravine- 

 bottoms and ridges, throughout the flats, and among the headwaters of 

 Starch-factory creek. Frankfort hill, copses and groves near bear-pond; 

 abundant on Jerusalem hill, bordering the cedar swamp of the State marsh; 

 wooded sides of Hidden and Cedar lakes; south Herkimer county. Banks of 

 Oriskany creek opposite the Dexter factories. Woodlands between Oriskany 

 and Rome. Beyond Rome, cleared land west of Fort Bull, with C.flexilis. 

 Valley of Fish creek north of Taberg, above the cliffs. Occasional in the 

 north woods. Infrequent. May, June. 



knieskern 11, Dewey. Discovered by Knieskern. 



Copses. Rome and Oriskany, from Knieskern, Dewey. In a shady field near 

 Fort Bull, Vasey. Local. June. 



flexilis, Budge. Flexile Carex. 



Low borders of woods. Litchfield, southwestern Herkimer county, Cedar 

 lake, on the moist sloping banks scattered with young evergreens; where it 

 was first observed in the United States, and received from the discoverer afar 

 better name, C. blepharophora, Gray in Rare plants of Northern N .Y. Old 

 Fort Bull on Wood creek, Knieskern: Vasey. Abundant still in the clearings 

 and swamps west of the fort and south of the Erie canal. 



Rare. May, and early in June. 



RiCHARDSONii, B. Broicn. Dedicated to Richardson. 



Dry woods, Parma, Monroe county, north side of the ridge, Bradley. Dis- 

 covered in this locality long before the expedition to British America, Dewey. 



Rare. July. 



torreyi, Tuckerman. Honorary to Torrey. 



Spica mascula solitaria, fern. 2 — 3 incluse pedunculatis erectis, stigmatibus 

 3, fructibus subglobosis obovatis obtusis nervosis glabris rostello brevi in- 

 tegro mucronatis, squama acuta mucronata duplo longioribus, caule foliis 

 bracteis squamisque ad carinam pubescentibus. Hab. Nov. Ebor., Torr.! 

 in herb. Hook, (sub C. pallescente) . Pedalis et sesquipedalis, omnino nisi 

 fructus pubescens : Tuckerman Enum. Car. 

 Utica, Gray. Received from the central part of the State, Dewey. 



Local. June. July. 



crawei, Dewey. Discovered by Crawe. 



Limestone rocks and banks. Guffm's bay in Black river near Watertown, 

 Crawe. Dewey. At the mouth of Black river. Sackett's-harbor, Vasey. Cedar 

 lake, Litchfield, south Herkimer county, south side, on moist marly slopes 

 under young arbor vitje. Barren spots of marl in the swamps of West-Bergen, 

 Genesee county. Rare. June, July. 



scabrata, Schweinitz. Bough Carex. 



Swamps, streams, cold bogs in meadows and woods. Common. June, Julv. 

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