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straminea, Wahlenberg. Straw-colored Carex. 



Swamps and their borders. Frequent. May, June. 



MiRABiLis, Dewey. Notable Carex. 



Wet meadows. Bottoms of the Mohawk river. Flats of Fish creek. 



Frequent. June. 



cristata, Schweinitz. Plume-headed Carex. 



Low grounds. Abundant. June. 



lagopodioides, SchJcuhr. Hard afoot, Lagopus-hke Carex. 



Marshes, shady wet woods. Frequent. June, July. 



tenera, Dewey. Pliant Carex. 



Swamps. Common. June. 



festucacea, Schktihr. Festuca-like Carex. 



Meadows, copses. Uncommon. July. 



scoparia, Schkuhr. Broom-like Carex. 



Roadsides, bogs. Common. July. 



sychnocephala, Carey. Clustered-headed Carex. 



Spicis androgynis interne masculis crebris arete capitato-aggregatis folioso- 

 bracteatis ; stigmatibus 2 ; perigyniis compressis e basi ovato-lanceolata 

 abrupte contracta subsessili longe sensimque rostratis apice bifidis margine 

 scabris squamam hyalinam lanceolatam abrupte mucronatam paulo super- 

 antibus. 



Hob. In Nov. Ebor. ComitaL " Jefferson," ubi legerunt cL I.B.Crawe, 

 M.D., et cL W. A. Wood, M.D. 



Culm about a foot high, leafy, smooth; spikes sessile, densely clustered, 

 forming a compound capitate spike subtended by 3 long unequal foliaceous 

 bracts much exceeding the spike. Perigynium tapering from an abruptly 

 contracted ovate base into a long and slender scabrous bifid beak, a little 

 exceeding the lanceolate abruptly mucronate scale. Achenium ovate, 

 compressed, crowned with the lengthened style. 



This plant, which has a great resemblance to C. cyperoides, Linnjeus, dif- 

 fers from that species in the nearly sessile perigynium, which tapers from a 

 much wider and contracted (not attenuated) base into a shorter beak, of 

 which the teeth are also shorter than in the European plant. The perigynia 

 are more crowded on the raehis than in C. cyperoides, the spikes of which, 

 owing to the greater length of the beaks, have a more comose appearance 

 than in our plant. The scale is shorter, abruptly mucronate, and not gradual- 

 ly T tapering as in C. cyperoides ; and the achenium is ovate, not ovate-oblong 

 as in that species : Caret in Sill. Jour. 



Moist banks, wet meadows. Borders of woods, roadside between Watertown 

 and Adams, where it was discovered by Knieskern and Vasey. about the year 

 18-14. Water town, received from Crawe, Dewey . Lnttlefalls, above the village, 

 between the eanal and the river, in a low meadow, Vasey. Rare. June, July. 



LENTicuLARis, Michx. Lentil-fruited Carex. 



On an island in Lake Sanford. not far from the Mclntyre Iron-works, Knies- 

 kern. Sandy shores of Fourth lake in the chain of Eight, north Herkimer 

 county : only' at the water's edge, often in shade, where it grows two feet 

 high, but on exposed banks it bears full-sized spikes at the height of four 

 or five inches : abundant there. Rare. July, August. 



aurea, Nuttall. Golden-fruited Carex. 



Wet rocks and banks. Ledges within reach of the spray from the upper 

 falls, Trenton falls. West-Canada creek. Gray. Marshy slopes round Cedar 

 lake : hillsides of Hidden lake, Litchfield : south Herkimer county. Low 

 grass-lands along the road between Vanhornsville and Summit lake. Spring- 

 field, Otsego county. Banks of Oriskany creek, Knieskern. Scarce. June. 



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