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menclature of species as published in recent American botanical 
works are made; the accompanying notes may be of interest: 
C. rostrata, Michx.,becomesC. Michauxiana,Boeckl., Michaux’s 
name being preoccupied by Withering for a very different plant ; 
the southern, slender forms of C. /folliculaza, L., with slightly 
awned scales are referred to var. australis, Bailey; C. upulina, 
Muhl., is C. lurida, Wahl., the older name, the C. lupuliformis, 
Sartw. is referred to this as var. polystachya, Bailey, and C. Bella- 
villa, Dewey, as var. divergens, Bailey; C. pulla, Gooden. is C. 
sexatilis, L., an Old World species and C. miliaris, Michx., is 
made var. (?) miliaris, Bailey, its systematic position being un- 
certain; C. ampullacea, Gooden, is C. rostrata, Withering, the 
latter name having one year’s priority and C. utriculata, Boott, is 
referred to this as var. wtriculata, Bailey; C. Vaseyi, Dewey, is 
included in C. monzle, Tuckerm.; C. Olneyi, Boott, is tegarded as 
a hybrid of éu/lata x utriculata and C. tentaculata, var. (?) altior, 
Boott, as one of ¢entaculata lurida, C. spissa, Bailey, is a gigantic 
new species from the southwest; C. danuginosa, Michx. is C. fili- 
formis, L., var. latifolia, Boeckl.; C. aristata, R. Br. and C. mi- 
rata, Dewey, are reduced to C. trichocarpa, Muhl., var. aristata, 
Bailey; C. paludosa, Gooden., is C. acutiformis, Ehrh. and is 
introduced in Eastern Mass.; C. rigida, var. Bigelovii, Tuckerm., 
is regarded as C. vulgaris, Fries, var. hyperborea, Boott; C. mil- 
zacea, Muhl., is C. prasina, Wahl., the older name; C. salina, 
Wahl., is given as ranging from Boston to Labrador in salt 
marshes: it may be noted that the late Dr. Knieskern supposed 
that he had this species from Ocean*County, N. J., as is recorded 
in his Catalogue, but his large herbarium is destroyed, and none 
of his specimens of the plant extant; C. Barbara, Dewey, is a 
curious species (poorly represented in the Herbaria) from Santa 
Barbara, Cal., and a few other stations, under which Mr. Bailey 
places C. Schottit, Dewey and C. Prescottiana, Olney. Olney’s 
label with the original of C. Barbare in Herb. Torrey reads 
“ ouess C. cryptocarpa, Meyer”; C. gynandra, Schw., is reduced 
to C. crinita, Lam., var. gynandra, Schw. & Torrey; Muller’s 
Nos. 1336, 649 and 1977 from Orizava fall in this Section, Cryp- 
tocarpez, perhaps in C. Ehrenbergiana, Boeckl., which by a mis- _ 
print, we suppose, is said to have spikes one to four feet long; C. 
