Annual Report of the State Botanist 1892 - MykoWeb

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Report of the State Botanist.
Carex canescens L.
Montauk Point. July. This is a singular form in which the
uppermost spike is wholly staminate or nearly so. I call it var.
staminata.
Carex foenea Wllld var. perplexa Bailey.
Rocky hills near Whitehall. July. In our s})ecimens the s])ikes
are distinctly narrowed at the base, the heads are sometimes
slightly nodding and the inner face of the perigynium is less-
prominently nerved. They appear to approach more nearly C.
straminea.
Carex tribuloides Wald. var. Bebbii Bailey.
Lansingburgh. Howe. Variety irducta Bailey was collected
at Blue Mountain lake in a 'form with the spikes aggregated in
an oblong head, an inch or an inch and a half long. It might be
called form aggregata.
Setaria Italica Kunth.
Raquette lake. A chvarf form with s})ikes scarcely half an
inch long, ap])arently the result of an attempt to cultivate the
Hungarian grass in a cold climate and an uncongenial soil.
Agrostis alba L. var. minor Va.^ey
Lansiug'burgh. Howe. A form closelv resembling- tliis in
external appearance, but having an awn as long as the flower and
a palet about one-fourth as long as the flowering glume, was col-
lected at Riverhead. It is well marked by the awri, which rises
near the base of the flower and is somewhat bent in the middle,
but other forms also have tlie same kind of an awm, notably the
one which in the Flora of New York is referred to .1. stricta.
Calamagrostis Canadensis Bo.
In the Adirondack' region this common grass often has the
panicle contracted both before and after flow^ering.
Trisetum subspicatum Bv. var. molle Gr.
Abundant on the rocky banks of Black river below Brownville.
June.
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