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1132. C. debilis, Michx. (C.) 

 Sunny banks, on the borders of swamps ; scarce. June. 



var. a. Boott. (Staminate spike usually not androgynous ; pistillate 

 nodding and broader,) occurs near Dryden-Lansing Swamp, Marl 

 Cr. , Marl Pond woods, Bear Swamp and near the Pout Pond, W. 

 Junius. 



1 133. var. fi, Boott, (staminate spike with some pistillate flowers; 

 pistillate spikes slender, erect,) is found near Freeville bog, in the 

 meadows southeast of Etna and on Turkey Hill. 



1 134. C. capillaris, L., var. elongata, Torr. 

 On half-submerged logs west side of the principal " Marl Pond," 



South Cortland, 18S4. ("Otter Cr. near Cortland, N. Y.: S. N. 

 Cowles, 1869;" see Olney's Carices, Boreali-Amer.) At the latter 

 station, — 3 miles from the former, — many of the plants were de- 

 stroyed in constructing the fish-pond ; but others still exist a few 

 rods north, on the logs which lie ill the cold, spring-water. Not 

 elsewhere known in N. Y. , although it probably exists within its 

 limits. The home of the species is in the Rocky Mt. region from 

 Col. to Alaska. Said to occur in N. H. 



1 135. C. flava, L,. 

 Spring meadows and marshes, where it is common. June-July. 

 The form, " var. androg-yna" Olney, is at Summit Marsh, Locke 



Pond, the Marl Ponds, and at the mouth of Paine's Cr. Some of 

 the Locke Pond specimens possess compound pistillate spikes. 

 (Junius, H. and C.) 



1 136. C. CEderi, Ehrh. 

 Limestone or marly soil ; scarce but variable. June-Sept. 

 The form nearest to the type, — yet of a very different aspect, is 



the var. prolifera, H. B. Lord, 19th N. Y. Rep., 1865, p. 76, in 

 which " at least one of the spikes of each plant is proliferous ; that 

 is, from one of the perigynia issues a stalk bearing a spike" ; usu- 

 ally the secondary spikes are abundant enough to form a dense 

 ovoid mass or irregular head. It is altogether probable that Michaux, 

 {Flora Bor. Amer., II, p. 171,) had similar specimens in mind in 

 describing the spikes of C. CEderi as " many, conglomerate-approxi- 

 mate." Found near Cayuga L. ; at Salmon Cr. , south of the spring; 

 {Mr. Lord,) ! Farley's Point ; Utts Point ; shore near quarry south 

 of Union Springs. 



1 137. C. CEderi, J^hrh.. , forma intermedia. 

 Near the Marl Ponds and Marl Cr. meadows. Near Otter Cr. 



These are nearest the slender forms, ( C. viridula, Michx., formerly,) 

 of C. CEderi, such as those at W. Bergen, in the great marl-swamp ; 

 but are still taller and more robust, approaching in habit C. flava. 

 They have the dark and rather slender rigid, erect leaves and bracts, 

 and the small perigynia mostly ascending with a short straight beak, 

 characteristic of C. CEderi ; but the spikes are oblong or cylindrical, 

 mostly 1% cm., robust, the upper variously androgynous, the lower 

 often proliferously compound. 



