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NEW YORK STATE MUSE CM 



Adirondack mountains. July. 



It forms small dense tufts, the short capillary stems often being 

 prostrate at maturity, the longer leaves partly concealing the fruit ; 

 or, they are suberect, and the spikes drooping; by which, and the 

 apparent absence of the sterile spikes, this delicate species may 

 be readily known. 



Yar. Deanei Baileij. Stems 6 / --12 / high, mostly longer than 

 the leaves ; staminate spike 2"--3 // long, less than \" wide, often 

 oblique; pistillate spikes 4-8 flowered, 2"--3" apart, the lowest 

 conspicuously stalked, its bract leaf-like and longer than the culm ; 

 radical spikes few or numerous. 



Adirondack mountains. 



92 Carex Bichardsonii R. Br. 



Stoloniferous ; stems 4 / --9 / high, stiff, erect or recur ved-spreading, 

 rough ; basal bracts dull purple or tawny ; leaves shorter than or 

 as long as the culm, wide, smooth, rough margined, their 



extremities often involute, stiff, erect or recur ved-spread in g; stam- 

 inate spike clavate, about V long, on a short stalk or subsessile, 

 conspicuously mottled ; pistillate spikes 3 "--9" long, densely 

 flowered, approximate, erect, the lowest on an included stalk, 

 its sheath (or bract) 6"--9" long, acute or acuminate, usually cover- 

 ing the lowest scale, dark purple or brown ; perigynia subglobose 

 or obovoid, thickly pubescent, obscurely nerved, with a long 

 tapering base, contracted above into a short point with an entire 

 or erose orifice ; scale ovate-oblong, obtuse, purplish-brown with 

 scarious margins. 



Dry ground. Rare. Monroe cointy. 



This species seems to be quite local. It is, however, well 

 marked by its purplish bracts and by its spikes appearing as if 

 spotted with purple or brownish-purple. 



93. Carex pubescens Mahl 

 Stems l°-2° high, erect, hairy; leaves shorter than the culm 

 IV -2^" wide, pubescent, dull green ; staminate spike subclavate, 

 on a peduncle 3"-6" long, erect, tawny ; pistillate spikes 2-4, 

 oblong or short-cylindrical, subdensely flowered, 5*-9* long, 

 approximate, the upper 2 sessile or nearly so, the lowest on stalks 

 3 "-6" in length, all erect ; bracts conspicuous, the upper setaceous, 

 the lowest leaf-like, 1-2' long ; perigynia acutely triangular- 



