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peeling the bark from their trunks, and I fear very much that the 
changed conditions thus induced will soon cause the disappearance 
of these rare plants from this historic locality. 
Carex Schweinitzii Dew. 
More than thirty years ago Rev. J. A. Paine detected this rare 
sedge in the swamp near Cedarville. It still exists there, growing in 
the edge of the swamp in a springy place at the foot of a hill. It was 
found by myself in a similar locality near Pike, Wyoming county, in 
June. 
Carex livida Willd. 
In the Catalogue of Oneida county plants this sedge is reported as 
abundant on the State marsh in Litchfield, Herkimer county. A re¬ 
cent visit to this locality failed to reveal more than a few poorly devel¬ 
oped specimens. The indications are that this rare species will soon 
disappear entirely from this locality. 
Carex filiformis L. 
This sedge sometimes assumes a sort of dioecious character. On 
one of the marshes in Litchfield, Herkimer county, some plants bore 
only staminate spikes; others bore only a single pistillate spike. But 
in the same locality other plants bore both staminate and pistillate 
spikes as usual. 
Carex teretiuscula prairea Britton. 
This is the prevailing form of the species in all the cold “cedar 
swamps” in the towns of Litchfield and Warren in the southern part 
of Herkimer county. The typical form of the species occurs in more 
open and less boggy places. Specimens collected in Albany county 
many years ago have the spikes on still longer branches, and thus 
appearing more conspicuously panicled. This is Carex prairea Dew. 
and C. teretiuscula ramosa Boott. 
Festuca duriuscula A. 
Wet, dripping cliffs along the Genesee river at Portage. The speci¬ 
mens were collected near the high bridge of the N. Y. & L. E. Rail¬ 
road, on the west side of the river. The culms are rather slender, 
