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1. Juncoides glabratum (Hoppe) Sheldon, Minn. Bot. Stud. Bull. 9: 63. 1894. 
Juncus glabratus Hoppe; Rostk. Mon. Junc. 27. 1801. 
Luzula glabrata Desv. Journ. Botanique 1: 145. 1808. 
Luzula spadicea glabrata FE. Meyer, Syn. Luz. 8. 1823. 
Type cocauity: “ Habitat in alpibus Salisburgensibus.”’ 
Rance: British Columbia to Montana and Oregon. Europe. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Mount Rainier, Piper 2170; Mount Adams, Henderson 2546; 
mountains north of Ellensburg, Brandegee 1114; Cascade Mountains, Tweedy ; Cascade 
Mountains above Lake Chelan, 7. £. Wilcox in 1883; Cascade Mountains, Colville, Lyall in 
1860; Nason City, Sandberg & Leiberg 668; Okanogan County, Whited 49; Mount Carlton, 
Kreager 232. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Hudsonian. 
2. Juncoides parviflorum (Khrh.) Coville, Contr. Nat. Herb. 4: 209. 1893. 
Juncus parviflorus Ehrh. Beitr. 6: 139. 1791. 
Luzula parviflora Desv. Journ. Botanique 1: 144. 1808. 
Luzula spadicea laxiflora E. Meyer, Syn. Luz. 8. 1823. 
Type Locauity: ‘Helvetia, Germania, Suecia.”’ 
Rance: Alaska to Labrador, south to California, Minnesota, and New York. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Montesano, Heller 3900; Cascade Mountains, latitude 49°, Lyall; 
Mount Rainier, Piper 2171; Lake Cushman, //enderson 1016; Cascade Mountains, Tweedy; 
Chiquash Mountains, Suksdorf 1008; Seattle, Piper 1015; Skokomish Valley, Kincaid; 
Skagit Pass, Lake & Hull 409; Wind River, Flett 1392; Bridge Creek, Elmer 641; Okano- 
gan County, Lake & Hull 400, 409; Southbend, Spillman, August 7, 1899. 
ZONAL DIstTRIBUTION: Humid Transition to Hudsonian. 
A variable species not much different from the European spadiceum, Our common 
form has lax panicles and pale perianth segments and capsule, and is nearly the same 
as Luzula parviflora sparsiflora Lange. The form with dark capsules, Luzula parviflora 
melanocarpa (Desv.) Gray, does not seem to occur in our limits. 
3. Juncoides piperi Coville, sp. nov. 
Densely tufted, from short horizontal usually matted rootstocks; stems erect, 10 to 35 
em. high; leaves mostly basal, firm in texture, pale green and dull, erect or nearly so, 
linear-lanceolate, attenuate, 2 to 4 mm. broad, 15 to 17-nerved, about one-fourth as long 
as the stem, smooth and glabrous except for a few long hairs on the sheaths and margins, 
inclined to become revolute; cauline leaves two or rarely three; panicle 5 to 8 cm. long, 
dark brown, nodding; lowest bract foliaceous, usually 8 to 15 mm. long; bractlets brown, 
paler and hyaline toward the apex, lacerate; flowers solitary on the branches or sometimes 
in clusters of two or three; perianth segments dark brown, nearly equal, ovate, acuminate, 
about 1.5 mm. long; stamens half to two-thirds the length of the perianth, the anthers 
nearly equaling the filaments; style about .2 to .3 mm., stigmas 2 to 3 mm. in length; 
capsule dark brown, exceeding the perianth, its valves broadly ovate, broadly acute, indis- 
tinctly or not at all apiculate; seeds of a light brown to buff or amber color, about 1.2 mm. 
in length, lanceolate-oblong in outline, narrowed to each end, distinctly keeled on the inner 
side, the cellular reticulations faint. 
Type specimen United States National Herbarium no. 352425, collected in September, 
1897, by A. D. E. Elmer (no. 678) in the Cascade Mountains of Okanogan County, Wash- 
ington, on the north fork of Bridge Creek, growing ‘on dry sand-gravelly moraines just 
below the glaciers at 6,000 feet altitude.” 
This species differs from Juncoides parviflorum in its more densely tufted habit, smaller 
size, and more lacerate bractlets, thicker, never shining leaves, the lack of a distinct apicu- 
lation on the capsule valves, and the light-colored pointed seeds. In parviflorum the seeds 
are dark brown, narrowly oblong in outline, and blunt at the ends. Our species bears a 
superficial resemblance to the European spadiceum, but is readily distinguishable by iis 
