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other respect with Gray’s type from Grandfather Mountain, North 
Carolina, and with specimens collected on Walker Mountain, Va., 
by members of the Torrey Club in May, 1892.* It is larger in 
every way and more hairy than S. Careyana; leaves thicker, more 
pointed at base, on shorter, stouter and very hairy petioles, the 
older ones often vinous-red on the under surface; petals strongly 
bimaculate ; filaments clavate, purple with age; capsules less 
divergent. The character of reflexed or spreading sepals is prob- 
ably of less importance in distinguishing the two species than has 
been supposed, but they are abundantly distinct in other respects. 
(Plate 207.) 
EupHorsia MERCURIALINA Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 212 (1803). | 
Abundant in the locality where Michaux originally found it, 
“in collibus circa Knoxville.” It grows in rich soil on wooded 
Slopes, and flowers in April and May. 
Carex AUSTRO-CAROLINIANA Bailey, Bull. Torr: Club, 20: 428 
(1893). 
This fine Carex was discovered by Buckley on Table Mt., S20. 
many years ago, and had not since been collected until in April, 
1893, I had the good fortune to meet with it in the “gorge” of 
the Hiwassee River in Polk Co., Tenn. It grows on moist rocks 
and isa strikingly handsome species. As no specimens bearing 
mature Perigynia have, to my knowledge, been hitherto preserved, 
a description drawn from good material is here inserted. 
Culms numerous, tufted, 25~35 cm. high, slender, compressed, 
Striate ; root-leaves bright green, longer or shorter than the culms, 
at, channelled, the cauline reduced. to sheathing bracts which are _ 
erect, Spreading or recurved at the apex, with reddish-brown, 3 
membranaceous edges; pistillate spikes 1-3, on erect or somewhat ~ 
recurved, filiform peduncles, the lower sometimes 9 cm. long, a 
owered ; scales of pistillate flowers brown, the lower cuspidate, — 
as long as or longer than the perigynia, the upper acute or ob- 
tusish, not half as long as the perigynia; perigynium 3-4 eet 
ng, triangular, somewhat curved, pointed but hardly bea nat 
fli. 3O-Herved, minutely granulose; achene sharply. beans 
lling the perigynium; stigmas 3, conspicuous ; staminate yi . 
rminal, slender peduncled, sometimes with a few pistillate flow- 
3 at base, 10-15 mm. long, usually more or less curved, scales 
Town, obtuse. 
e *See Mem. Torr. Club, 4: 118 (1894). 
