. 1903] Fernald,— Luzula vernalis 195 
linae is a little known plant of the Carolina Mountains. It was 
based on an over ripe specimen from Grandfather Mountain, and 
again collected at Biltmore (Bilt. Herb. no. 118sb distributed as Z. 
Pilosa) ; and though the species is reduced by Dr. Small to Z. pilosa 
Vuncoides pilosum), the two sheets of it in the Gray Herbarium show 
a plant with the cauline leaves 5 to 13 cm. long, the dark flowers on 
loose anthelate peduncles, the filaments nearly as long as the 
anthers, and the valves of the old capsules much narrower than in 
the common American plant and quite unlike those of the European 
L. vernalis (L. pilosa). L. Carolinae is more nearly related to the 
Asiatic Z. plumosa, Meyer. From that species, however, it is 
distinguished by its broader longer leaves and more flexuous ped- 
uncles ; and from the material at hand it seems to be a local species 
of the Carolina Mountains. The widely distributed American plant 
which has been associated with it and more generally with the 
European Z. vernalis (L. pilosa) is here proposed as 
LuzuLA saltuensis. Loosely caespitose, with elongate slender 
branching rootstocks: stems erect, smooth, terete, 1 to 4 dm. high: 
basal leaves lance-linear, flat, loosely hairy or glabrate, 1 to 2.5 dm. 
long, 4 to 12 mm. broad: the 2 to 4 stem-leaves 1.5 to 4.5 cm. long, 
lanceolate, with thick blunt callous tips: inflorescence umbelliform, 
subtended by a short leaf like bract; the 5 to rs filiform somewhat 
unequal loosely spreading or flexuous peduncles in anthesis 0.5 to 1 
cm. long, in fruit becoming r.5 to 3 cm. long, usually r-flowered, 
rarely with 2 or 3 remote flowers: flowers 3 to 4 mm. long; pro- 
phylla ovate, whitish, translucent, erose: sepals and petals firm, sub- 
equal, triangular-lanceolate, attenuate, brown with pale translucent 
narrow margins: stamens 6, one-half or two-thirds as long as the 
sepals and petals; the linear-oblong anthers many times exceeding 
the filaments: ovary conic, deeply three lobed ; style about equalling 
the three erect stigmas: capsule broadly conic-ovoid, attenuate, pale, 
3-5 to 4.5 mm. long, equalling or exceeding the calyx: seed sub- 
globose, reddish brown or darker, 2 mm. in diameter, terminated by 
a long pale twisted caruncle.— Z. pilosa, Muhl. Gram. 200 (1817), 
and Am. authors, not Willd. Z. pilosa, B, Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 188 
(1839). Z. vernalis, Wats. & Coult. in Gray Man. ed. 6, 546 (1890), 
not Lam. & DC. Juncoides pilosum, Coville, Mem. Torr. Club, v. 108 
(1894), not Juncodes pilosum, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii, 725 (1891). 
— Rich woods, clearings and banks of streams, Newfoundland to 
Saskatchewan, south to New York, Michigan, and Minnesota, and 
in the mountains to Georgia; also Kamtschatka. The following are 
characteristic specimens. MAINE, Masardis, June 8, 1898, Orono, 
June 4, 1898 (M. L. Fernald, nos. 2510, 2511); Orono, May 14, 
1902 (M. L. Fernald in Plantae exsiccatae Grayanae, no. 85); Somes- 
