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Terminal spike pistillate es base or apex or at both 
Spikes linear-cylindri 3. C. virescens 
Spikes ovoid or oblong 
Perigynium glabrous 4. C. cladostachya 
Perigynium rough- pilos 5. C. scabrella 
ype species, as pulicaris, L. 
I. CAREX UNDERWOODII, Britton. Torreya, V: 10. 1905. 
Carex hystericina, Clarke . Urban, Symb. Ant. II 
159. 1900. Not Schkuhr. 
In sphagnum, Salt Hill Pond (Underwood 158); Petersfield Pond 
Guava Ridge (Shreve). Endem 
2. CAREX HINNULEA, ee in Urban, Symb. Ant. II: 159. 
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The only specimen known of this species is ohio aad in the Good- 
enough herbarium, and its collector is not reco 
3. CAREX VIRESCENS, Schkuhr, Riedgr. it: 45. 1806. 
This common species of Eastern North America is also represented 
in the Goodenough herbarium by a specimen purporting to be 
from Jamaica, as recorded by Mr. Clarke. 
4. CAREX CLADOSTACHYA, Wahl. Kong. Vet. Acad. Handl, 
XXIV: 149. 1803. 
On banks and hillsides at high elevations. Cinchona (Shreve): 
Morce’s Gap (Nichols cy Britton 179). Mountains of the ‘West 
Indies ; Mexico to Boliv 
5. CAREX SCABRELLA, | Wahl. Kong. Vet. Acad. Handl. XXIV: 
149, 3. 
Grassy hanks and deinkecke Between Chestervale and Silver Hill 
Gap (Britton 350); Mona Hill (Britton 363). Distribution: moun- 
tains and hills of Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti. 
{Issued 19th September, 1907.] 
Printed at the Govt. Printing Office, Kingston, Jam 
