Carex hepburnii Boott
[= Carex nardina]

Montana: Rocky Mountains.
Possible type. At least one other collection is also on this sheet, see NY barcode 11075. There are several comments on these collections that are also mounted on this sheet: "This paper appears to have perplexed both Gray and Torrey, and it has troubled me no less. You see the view I take of the matter, and I am glad to have an opportunity of referring it to you. The plants I refer to your C. hepburnii (unknown to me, except through your descrip. and fig.) may, or may not be correct, but they are not C. dioica, nor like it. See the beaklets perig., etc. But one of the fertile spikelets has no barren[sp?] flowers that I perceive and this has led me to question whether the male spikes may not also belong to the same plant (your C. hepburnii, or whatever it may be), which like many species of this set, may be occasionally dioecious. If it be so, are there any and what reliable characters in the male spikes to distinguish them from their close allies, C. dioica." "I feel assured that the above 2 sp. are mixed on this paper. In one of the spikes of C. hepburnii which I inspected, I find the seta to the achenium, as figd. by Boott, though I do not esteem this a very certain or constant character (see C. fraseriana) -J.C." "You are right as to C. hepburnii and C. dioica on this sheet. But my name yields to Fries' C. nardina, a good name though I regret to base that of the excellent [illegible]. I send from a specimen of my C. hepburnii, 'spica ovali'. June 8, 1848. F.B.[Francis Boott?]". possible type.

G. W. Prescott s.n., s.d.
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