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lanuginosa, Michx. Woolly-fruited Carex. 



Wet meadows. Littlefalls. flats of the Mohawk, south side of the river 

 above t lie town. Dexter. Jefferson county, Vasey. Western part of the State, 

 Gray Gram. 4" Cyp. Yates county. Sartwell. Infrequent. June. 



FiLiFomns, L., Filiform-leaved Carex. 



Cold marshes, banks, shores. Summit lake, northern Otsego county. About 

 Mud lake; on the tamarack swamps between Page's corners and Jordanville, 

 Warren; around Cedar lake: common on Hidden lake; State swamp near 

 Jerusalem hill. Litchfield; south Herkimer county. Swamps just over the 

 ridge along the head of Oneida lake. Bogs and lake-shores of the north 

 woods. Frequent. June, J'lly. 



striata, Michx. Nerved-striote Carex. 



Swamps and low gmunds. Western counties. Torrey Fl. N.Y. Near Ori- 

 skany, Vasey. On an island in Lake Sanford, Essex county, Knieskern. 



Rare. June. 



retrorsa, Schweinitz. Recur ved-fruited Carex. 



Wet meadows, marshes. Around the lakes, and in all the cold swamps on 

 the hills southward. Throughout the flats of the Mohawk. 



Frequent. June, July. 



sciiweinitzii, Dewey. Complimentary to Schweinitz. 



Low rivulet-sides, flats of streams, cedar swamps. Sparingly at Oriskany, 

 in marshy grounds along the railroad; and between Oriskany creek and the 

 raceway. Bridgewater,'and swamps in the southern part of the county, Gray. 

 Common in the limestone region, from beyond Frankfort hill to Cedar lake, 

 in all rivulet-banks, meadows, ravine-bottoms, swamps; also in the great 

 swamp at Cedarville; south Herkimer county. Rare. June. 



mirata, Deicey. Admirable Carex. 



Cold marshes. Discovered in June 1829, in Greece. Monroe county, on the 

 banks of a small stream, by Dr. S. B. Bradley. The station was destroyed 

 soon after; and the plant has not been rediscovered by most diligent search 

 up the stream and down its length to the Lake, or by thorough exploration 

 of the whole region. Local. June. 



longirostris, Torrey. Long-beaked Carex. 



Dry banks. Littlefalls, two miles below the town, among the shaded rocks 

 near the end of the north cliff. Fish creek, Rome, above the crossing of the 

 Oswego county road, in thickets along the banks. Below the bridge, Vasey. 

 Vienna, Knieskern. Scarce. Early in June. 



vaseti, Dewey. Honorary to Vasey. 



Wet banks. 



I find in Tuckerman's herb, specimens associated with C. monih from 

 Penn-Yan (the C. monih No. 152 of Sartwell's Collection), which do 

 not agree with the original description of C. mo?iiIe, or with the Ohio 

 specimens from which that description was made. They approach in aspect 

 C. vesicaria ; but differ from it, and from C. ?nonile, in having a long 

 . cylindric serrated rostrum, an oblong-ovate perigynium, with elongated 

 sharp rough lacinias : F. Boott. 



These specimens were C. vastyi, as are all gathered at Penn-Yan by 

 Sartwell, Dewet. Rare. July. 



hartii, Dewey. Discovered by S. Hart Wright. 



Spikes extremely variable : the sterile sometimes wanting, usually single, 

 oiten two or three, frequently with fruit scattered along its sides or with 

 a cluster of perigynia at its base, rarely both, the highest one longest and 

 all slender-cylindric, with linear scales : the fertile, short cylindric, two 

 to seven in number, commonlv four ; the upper one or two sessile with 

 long leafy bracts, sometimes interrupted by staminate flowers or wholly 



