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Bears the name of Capt. Parry, the Arctic explorer. — South Park, 

 Colorado, Wolf, Hall & Harbour 617, and northward to Hudson's 

 Bay. Rare. 

 59. Carex stylosa, C. A. Meyer, Act. Acad. St. Petersb. i. 222, 



t. 12. 



C. nigritella, Drejer, Revis. Crit. Car. 32. 

 Culm slender but erect, a foot or a foot and a half high, scabrous : 

 leaves narrow (scarcely exceeding a line or a line and a half), mostly 

 sliorter than the culm : staminate spike one, an inch or less long, 

 slender, very short-stalked: pistillate spikes two or three, a half-inch 

 or less long, the lowest on a slender peduncle an inch or less in length, 

 the others sessile or nearly so : lowest bract nearly or quite equalling 

 the culm : perigynium turgid-ovate, fuscous, minutely punctate, nerve- 

 less, the entire orifice closed with the stiff and persistent style from 

 which the stigmas are caducous, longer than the very obtuse black 

 white-ribbed scale, A pretty species. — Fox Harbor, Labrador, Allen ; 

 Greenland, Vahl ; Sitka, Bongard, Mertens. 



Var. viRENS. 



Stouter : leaves broader : spikes all closely sessile and much 

 thicker: perigynium green, much broader than in the species and 

 the scales much narrower. Perhaps a good species. — Sauvie's Is- 

 land, Oregon, and Mt. Adams, Washington Territory, at 5,000 feet, 

 Howell. 



60. Carex Tolmiei, Boott, Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 224. 

 C. vulgaris, Olney, Proc. Am. Acad. 1872, 407. 

 Culm rigid, a foot to foot and a half high, triquetrous, smooth or 

 nearly so : leaves ordinary, rough on the margins, mostly shorter than 

 the culm : lower one or two bracts leafy and about equalling the culm, 

 sheathless : spikes four to six or seven, the uppermost an inch or less 

 long, staminate and mostly short-peduncled, the others mostly con- 

 tifuous, oval or oblong (three fourths inch or less long), dark-colored, 

 often staminate at the apex, the two or three lowest on slender pedun- 

 cles, an inch or two long, the others sessile : perigynium compressed- 

 trigonous, oval or oval-oblong, pale and more or less discolored with 

 purple dots, lightly nerved, produced into a very short and entire 

 cylindrical beak, either longer or shorter than the obtuse or muticoua 

 purple white-ribbed scale. — Tolmie was an Indian trader and early 

 botanical collector. — Columbia River, Tolmie; Oregon, Hall 597: 

 Northwest Coast, according to Boott ; Behring Straits, Langsdorff. 

 Kamtschatka, Wright. 



