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plate was drawn was collected by Tuckerman at the base of the White 
Mountains; and since it is necessary to distinguish the plant by a new 
specific name (minor having been used too often as a varietal name to 
be eligible) and since there is already a Carex Tuckermani, it is a 
pleasure to commemorate the explorations and generous services of the 
Crawford family, familiar to a long generation of visitors to the White 
Mountains. This plant with which their ‘name now becomes associated 
is common in northern New England and about the Great Lakes, thence 
extending far northward. 
The other plant with narrow thick perigynia is more puzzling. In 
the dark brown color of its broad scales it is unlike the other forms 
which have been referred to Carex scoparia. In fact, by different 
students it has been referred with doubt to C. tribulotdes, C. lepornia, 
and C. foenea as well. Yet in its perigynium it resembles only Boott’s 
C. scoparia, var. minor. This tall dark-spiked piant, which is common 
in the region of Orono, Maine, has been collected by Professor Lamson- 
Scribner and by the writer, but it seems to be unknown from other 
regions. his fact immediately suggests that it may be an introduced 
form, but a careful search through Old World material and descriptions 
fails to show anything to which it can be referred. It is, therefore, 
here treated as a local species, taking the name of the town from which 
all our material has been collected. 
One other form of the scoparia group should be specially mentioned 
since, by an unfortunate misinterpretation, it has already caused needless 
confusion. This is Carex scoparia, var. moniliformis, Tuckerman. A 
Specimen in the Gray Herbarium from Tuckerman himself, is without 
question a slender-spiked form of C. scoparia. The variety was so 
treated by Francis Boott, in whose table 368 it is well represented. 
Yet in his Preliminary Synopsis of the genus Professor Bailey treated it 
without question as identical with his own C. tribulotdes, var. reducta ; 
and Professor Britton, following his lead, has since made the new com- 
bination, OC. tribuloides, var. moniliformis (Tuckerman) Britton, for a 
plant very different from that to which the varietal name was originally 
applied. 
Carex tribuloides, Wahl., has been clearly treated by Professor Bailey. 
C. Bebbii, Olney, however, which by him is reduced to a variety of that 
Species, seems to be as well marked as other members of the subgenus, 
and it is here given equal rank with them. In its shorter, broader, and 
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