<^^rea:.2 CVPERACEiE. 207 



2. S. anceps. L,~S. gramineum. Lam.? BoL Mag. t. 464? 



Hab Newfoundland (Miss Brenton) to the Saskatchawan. Dr Richardson. Drummond. California 

 (Douglas) to Sitcha, N. W. America. Bongard.^m Herbert remarks in my Herbarium, that S. mucro- 

 natum has usually the stalks much longer than the leaves ; but that the varieties oUnceps and mucronatum 

 are in reality scarcely distinguishable. 



3. S. grandiflormn. Dough in BoL Reg. t. 1364. Bot Mag. t 3509. 



Hab. Low hills of the Columbia, from the great falls to the Oakanagan, in dry soils. Douglas. Between 

 curnt and Malheur Rivers, Snake country. Jolmie, 



OuD. XVII. HYPOXIDE^. Br. 



3. //. erecta. L Bot. Mag. t. 710. 



Has. Canada. Pursh. 



Ord. XVIII. DIOSCORE^. Br 

 1. D. villosa. L.—B. paniciilala. Jacg. Ic. t. 626. 



Hab. Canada. Pursh. 



Ord. XIX. CYPERACE^. Juss. 



1. CAKEX.*Z. 



The following, valuable list, with characters and descriplions of new species of the British North American 

 Varices, is entirely the work of my inestimable friend Dr Boott. The paper was accompanied witli a letter, 

 from which I make the following extract : — 



" After months and months," says Dr Booit, " of intermittent study of Carex, I have completed the list 

 of British and North American species, for publication in your British North American Flora, and if the 

 deepest interest in the subject avails much, I can offer that as a recommendation of my humble labours. I 

 have made the sketch as concise as possible, and, therefore. I hope you will publish it as I send it, letting me 

 bear the responsibility of its defects. In a genus comprising so many species, I have thought it advisable at 

 once to annex a full description of the new species. It will give an additional value to your admirable work ; 

 and, to afford space, I have inserted nothing on the known species, but what is essential to their being re- 

 cognised, leaving synonyms to be gleaned generally from works that are easy of access to all. I have re- 



' Vide Memoircs Acad. Imp. des. Sc. de St Petersb. torn. 1. 1831. p. 195. " Cyperacece nova, C. A. 

 Mei/€r:'^Uem. de TAcad. Imp. des Sc. de St Pctersb.6 series, torn. 2. p. IG8. *' Bongard Obs. surla Veg. 

 de risle de *Si7cAa."— Silliman's Journal. " Caricography. C, Dewey." vols. 7, 9, 10, 11. 28. 29, 30.— 

 Monograph of the N. American, Sp. of Carex. L.D. de Schwcinitz. Edit, by J. Torrey, in Annals of Lyceum of 

 Nat. Hist. N. York, 1825.— Mon. of N. American Cyperaceae. J. Torrey. 1836.— Michaux, FI. Bor. Am. 

 2. p. 169.— Muhlenberg des ub. Gram, et pi. cal. Phil. 1817.— Willdenow, Sp. pi. 4.207 —Schkuhr, ried- 

 graf, (opus eximium).— Kunth Cyperographia. Stuttgard, 1837.— Goodenough, in Lin. Trs. 2, 126 j 3, 76. 

 — Rudge, Lin. Trs. 7, 96.— Hoppc and Sturm, Caricologia Gcrmamca, 1835. 



