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which are also copiously eaten by the Indians of Stikine, and known by the names 
of Koch or N. W. Rice; but Mr. Toline says they are bitter and nauseous.” For the 
use of the plant among the Thlinkets, see page 330. 
Tofieldia glutinosa (Michx.) Pers. Syn. i, 399 (1805); Narthecium glutinosum Michx. 
FI]. i, 210 (1803). Type specimen collected between Quebec and Lake Mistassinie. 
Khantaak Island, June 27 (No. 47), along the margin of a fresh-water marsh. 
JUNCACES. 
Juncus falcatus alaskensis var. nov.; probably J. falcatus sitchensis Buch. Monog, 
June. 428 (1890), not J. arcticus sitchensis Engelm. (1866). Type specimen in the 
United States National Herbarium, collected July 18, 1892, at Ocean Cape, Yakutat 
Bay, Alaska, by Frederick Funston (No. 67), growing in openings in the forest. 
In the typical form of the species, which was originally collected at Monterey, 
Cali.ornia, and which seems to range as far northward as Puget Sound, the styles 
are long, the stigmas conspicuously exserted, and the anthers much longer than 
their filaments, as in J. orthophyllus, but specimens collected at various points from 
Yakutat Bay, Alaska, to the Aleutian Islands have a very short, thick style, and 
anthers little longer than their filaments. No fruiting specimens have been seen, 
but the plant is doubtless the same as Dr. Buchenau’s variety sitchensis, which was 
described, presumably from Alaskan specimens, as having a retuse obcordate capsule 
instead of the obtuse ovate one of the type form. The plant occurs on the Aleutian 
islands, Atka and Unalaska, on the Shumagin Islands, at Yakutat Bay, and perhaps 
farther southward along the Alaskan coast. 
Juncoides campestre sudeticum (Willd.) Coville, Contr. Nat. Herb. iv, 208 
(1893); Juncus sudeticus Willd. Sp. Pl. ii, 221 (1799); Luzula campestris sudctica Cela- 
kovsky, Prodr. F]. Beehm. 749 (1881), Type locality, the summit of the Sudetic Moun- 
tains, of Silesia. 
Knight Island, June 18 (No. 28), growing on bare, well-drained sandy points. 
CYPEHRACEHS. 
Eleocharis watsoni Babb. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, x, 20 (1852). Type 
specimen collected on the seacoast of Scotland, near Tayanloan, Argy leshire. 
Along the Ankow River, August 28 (No. 135); abundant along the margins of 
lagoons and fresh-water swamps. Mr. C. B. Clarke! has disposed of this species as 
a variety, watsoni, of L. palustris; but if our specimens are fairly representative of 
the plant, it appears much more satisfactory to treat it as a distinct species. They 
have culms 20 to 40 em. high, spikes at maturity 4 to 6mm, in diameter and 7 to 
15 mm. long, bracts of the spike black, with hyaline margins, and set equaling 
the nutlet. The plant was identified by Dr. N. L. Britton. 
Carex decidua? Boott, Proc. Linn. Soc. i, 255 (1845). Type specimens from the 
Falkland Islands and from Port Famine, Straits of Magellan. 
On the Ankow River, August 28 (No. 134); common in fresh-water swamps and 
along the edges of lagoons. 
Carex festiva pachystachya Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club, i, 51 (1889). 
Mainland, near Mission, Yakutat Bay, June 19 (No, 30); found wherever there is 
no shade. Common on the Ankow. 
Carex limosa stygia (Fries) Bailey, Proc. Amer. Acad. xxii, 95 (1887); C. stygia 
Fries, Mant. iii, 141 (1842). 
Knight Island, June 18 (No. 27); common along the edges of fresh-water ponds on 
the mainland and islands of the bay. 
! Journal of Botany, xxv, 268 (1887). 
2 The specimens of Carex were determined by Professor L. H. Bailey. 
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