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C. stricta. Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey's Voy. 131. 



C. recta, Boott, Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 220, t. 222. 



C hcematolepis, Drej. Rev. Crit. Car. 44. 

 Wahlenberg's original C. sulina was reduced by himself to the var. 

 mutica, and the more developed form elevated to be the type in Flora 

 Lapponica. — In salt marshes near the coast, from Boston to Labra- 

 dor ; about Hudson's Bay according to Boott, Kotzebue's Sound, Herb. 

 N. Europe. 



Var. MUTICA, Wahl. Fl. Lapp. 246. 



C. salhia, "Wahl. Kongl. Acad. Handl. xxiv. 165. 



C. lanceata, Dewey, Sill. Journ. xxix. 249. 



G. reducta, Drej. Rev. Crit. Car. 36. 



O. salina, var. minor, Boott, in part, 111. 160, t. 528. 

 Distinguished from the species by its smaller size (ranging in height 

 from six to eighteen inches), narrow leaves, few spikes which are 

 slender and often loosely flowered and usually sessile or nearly so, its 

 narrow fewer-nerved elliptical or ovate-lanceolate perigynium, and the 

 shorter muticous scale. — British America, Cumberland House and 

 Hudson's Bay, Drummond, and probably no. 4702 Bolander from 

 Mendocino City, Calif. ; Greenland, Drejer. N. Europe.* 

 83. Carex subspathacea, Wormskjold, Fl. Dan. ix. 4, t. 1530 

 (1818). 



C. Hoppneri, Boott, Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 219, t. 220. 



* Carex ambusta, Boott, 111. 64, t. 172 (C. salina, var. amhusta, Bailey, 

 Carex Cat.). Dr. Boott proposed this species upon a plant from Herb. Prescott 

 without a habitat, venturing the opinion tliat it came from Sitlca or its neigh- 

 borhood. Later on in liis Illustrations he expressed the opinion that it is in- 

 separable from C. salina, and I consequently made it a variety of that species in 

 my preliminarj' catalogue. Last year I received, through Dr. Geo. Vasey, a 

 peculiar Carex from Ungava Bay, N. Labrador, collected by L. M. Turner. It 

 resembled C. saxatilis very closely in general habit, but differed widely in the 

 character of its perigynia. A subsequent search through the Gray Herbarium 

 discovered among the specimens of C. saxatilis other plants from near the West- 

 ern coast to match the Labrador specimens. These plants are to be referred to 

 C. ambusta, to be distinguished from C. saxatilis, which they imitate closely, by 

 the nearly lanceolate, long-pointed and spreading perigynia, which possess none 

 of that shining, papery, and inflated appearance so characteristic of that species, 

 and by the long and often weak peduncles of the pistillate spikes. I see no 

 reason for uniting this plant with C. salina. I had at first thought it to be a good 

 species, but recent material leads me to think that it is a form of C. phi/socarpa. 

 The specimens which I have referred here are from Sitka, Dr. Mertens ; Una- 

 laska, Harrington ; Northern British Columbia, /Joi/HOc/t ; Ungava Bay, N. Labra- 

 dor, Turner. 



