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This species is somewhat remarkable on account of its resemblance 
to Carex cryptocarpa, so far as concerns the structure of the spikes, the 
deep-purplish, lancevlate scales and the broad pale-green perigynia. But 
it shows, on the other hand, a striking contrast to this species, C. crypto- 
carpa, not only by the almost sessile and mostly erect pistillate spikes, 
but also by its very broad leaves, the basal and the bracts. Habitually 
the species does not resemble C. cryptocarpa, but, to some extent, Drejer's 
C. haematolepis or certain very robust forms of C. salina; it appears, 
however, to be distinct from these, and as a type intermediate between 
the true Salinae and C. cryptocarpa Mey. 
8. Carex luzulaefolia W. Boott var. strobilantha Holm, 1. c., p. 305, 
fig. 18. 
Taller and more robust than the typical plant; the spikes thick and 
very compact-flowered; scales of staminate and pistillate spikes mostly 
mucronate; perigynium glabrous throughout, faintly nerved on the inner 
face, nearly sessile, roundish in outline and terminated by a very distinct, 
bidentate beak. 
California: Above Donner Pass in Placer County, in a subalpine 
meadow, where snow-drifts lie late, and usually near granite rocks, 
collected by Mr. A. A. Heller, August, 1903 (no. 7187). 
In the specimens of this new variety the rizome is densely matted 
with ascending shoots and covered by dark, brownish fibers from the 
old leaf-sheaths. The leaves are very broad, but much shorter than the 
culms. The heavy, deep-brown spikes remind of small cones, hence the 
name “strobilantha”, and there is quite a variation in respect to their 
number, position and the distribution of the sexes. 
XVII. Orchidaceae novae Brasiliae atque terrarum 
adjacentium ab Alfredo Cogniaux descriptae. I. 
(Ex: Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique, XLIII [1906], pp. 266—356.)1) 
1. (II. 4bis,) Habenaria (Sect. Macroceratitae) Hassleriana Cogn. ex Chod. 
et Hassl. in Bull. Herb. Boiss., 1903, p. 929 (nomen tantum); 1. c., p. 268 
(deser.). 
Caule elongato, multifoliato; foliis erecto-patulis, anguste lanceolatis, 
acutis, basi longiuscule vaginantibus, 3——5-nerviis, nervis subtus non 
prominentibus; racemo longiusculo, densiuscule multifloro; bracteis folia- 
ceis, lanceolatis, longiuscule acuminatis, non carinatis, ovario brevioribus; 
1) Die Nummern in Klammern vor dem Namen bezeichnen die Stelle in 
der Flora Brasiliensis, wohin die neuen Arten gehóren. 
