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30 FIELD AND LABORATORY [Vol. 22 6a. Petals oboval or suborbicular, 10-15 mm. long by 8-14 mm. wide, 1-1½ times as long as wide; flowers solitary or few (1-5) ; terminal leaflet or floricane leaves 1.1-2.2 times as long as wide, oblong-lanceo-late to rhombic or elliptic-ovate; E. Oak Belt west to W. Cross Timbers ... 6. R. oklahomus 6b. Petals oblong-elliptic to obtusely oblanceolate or oboval, 6-15 mm. long by 3.5-10 mm. wide, 1½-2½ times as long as wide; flowers usually few to many (4-15 on most branchlets, rarely 1-3) ; terminal leaflet of floricane leaves 2-2.8 times as long as wide, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate; E. Oak Belt and Pine Belt ... 7. R. louisianus Botanical Notes CAREX CAR0LINIANA Schwein. var. cuspidata (Dewey) Shinners, comb. nov.--C. hirs-uta var. cuspidata Dewey in Wood, Class-Book of Botany (edition copyrighted 1860), p. 758. "Ill. (Vasey)"; type not seen, variety listed as synonym of the following by Mackenzie in N. Am. Fl. 18 (pt. 6): 325, 1935. Carex Bushii Mackenzie, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 37: 241. 1910. Type from Fulton, Arkansas; not seen. In Northern Texas, var. caroliniana occurs east of the Blackland Prairie; cuspidata and forms with glabrous or glabrate leaves (placed here because of the prominent awned pistillate scales, and perigynia of intermediate size) are found west to the East Cross Timbers.--Lloyd H. Shinners. CYPERUS VIRENS Michx. var. arenicola (Steudel) Shinners, comb. nov.--C. arenicola Steudel, Syn. Pl. Glum. p. 51, 1855. C. cyrtolepis var. arenicola (Steudel) Boeckeler, Linnaea 35: 558, 1868. C. pseudo-vegetus var. arenicola (Steudel) Kukenthal in Engler, Pflanzenreich IV. 20 (Heft 101): 176, 1936. lntergrades with var. virens (which has generally been called C. pseudovegetus; cf. Fernald, Rhodora 47: 109-110, 1945) ; our plants usually referred to C. acuminatus Torr. & Hook., described as an annual species, but they are distinctly peren-nial.--Lloycl H. Shinners. HYPNUIVI LINDBERGH Mitt. var. americanum (Ren. & Card.) White-house, comb. nov.--Hypnum arcuatum Lindb. var. americanum Ren. & Card. Bot. Gaz. 14: 99. 1889. In compiling a catalogue of the mosses of Texas, I find that this transfer is necessary. I am indebted to Dr. W. C. Steere for calling to my attention the fact that Hypnum arcuatum Lindb. is synonymous with Hypnum lindbergii Mitt.--Eula Whitehouse. News Notes On January 16, 1954, a meeting was held in Fondren Science Build-ing, Southern Methodist University, to consider the formation of a wildlife and conservation society for the Dallas area. The meeting, called to order by Dr. Eula Whitehouse of the Southern Methodist University Hebarium, organized a Dallas Audubon Society; and the National Audubon Society accepted the group as a branch society in February. The charter membership roll contains more than eighty 

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