48 Rhodora [Marcu 
on account of the earlier C. scirpoidea Michx. (1803) and that the 
species described by Schkuhr must be known as C. interior Bailey. The 
Vienna Code, however, indicates that, although differing only slightly, 
the names are to be treated as different. 
CAREX SCIRPOIDES Schkuhr, var. Josselynii (Fernald), n. comb. 
C. interior Bailey, var. Josselynii Fernald, Кнорока, viii. 115 (1906). 
CAREX DIANDRA Schrank, var. ramosa (Boott), n. comb. |. C. teretiu- 
scula Good., var. ramosa Boott, Ill. 145 (1867). C. prairea Dewey 
in Wood, Classbook, 578 (1855). С. teretiuscula, var. prairea Britton 
in Britton & Brown, Ill. Fl. i. 344 (1896).— The name C. diandra 
Schrank, Cent. Bot. Anmerk. 57 [49] (1781) must replace the later 
C. teretiuscula Good. Trans. Linn, Soc. ii. 163 (1794). 
CAREX ROSTRATA Х SAXATILIS, var. MILIARIS, n. hybr., quam C. 
saxatilis, var. miliaris (Michx.) Bailey vix minus gracilis; culmis 
2.5-4 dm. altis supra scabris; folis planis elongatis 2-3 mm. latis; 
spicis fertilibus 1—5 varie dispositis nunc omnibus vel fere omnibus 
arcte aggregatis nunc remotis 1-3 cm. longis; perigyniis stramineis 
ovoideis obscure nerviis vel enerviis, rostro brevi acuto bidentato; 
squamis purpureis in eodem specimine longitudine diversis obtusis 
vel acuminatis; acheniis plerumque abortivis.— Nearly as slender as 
C. saxatilis L., var. miliaris (Michx.) Bailey, the culms, 2.5-4 dm. 
high, scabrous above: leaves flat, elongate, 2-3 mm. broad: pistil- 
late spikes 1—5, variously disposed, sometimes all or nearly all closely 
aggregated, sometimes all or nearly all very remote, 1—3 cm. long: 
perigynia stramineous, ovoid, faintly nerved or nerveless; the short 
beak sharply bidentate: scales purplish, of various lengths on the 
same plant, blunt or acuminate: achenes mostly undeveloped.—- 
QUEBEC, growing with the two parents in a boggy meadow near the 
northern end of Table-top Mountain, Gaspé Co., August 13, 1906 
(Fernald & Collins, no. 188). 
Juncus ALPINUS Vill, var. fuscescens, n. var., ramis inflores- 
centiae laxe ascendentis non strictis, glomerulis compactis regulariter 
floriferis, floribus viridescentibus vel stramineis.— Branches of the 
inflorescence loosely ascending, not strict: glomerules compact and 
regularly flowered: flowers greenish or straw-colored.— Widely dis- 
tributed from western Vermont to British Columbia and Missouri. 
Type collected about a brackish spring, Cayuga Marshes, New York, 
August 16 and September 23, 1885 (W. А. Dudley, no. 137). In J. 
alpinus and its var. insignis Fries, the branches of the inflorescence 
