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spikes of C. crinita. — Aloug the coast, from San Francisco to 

 Alaska. 



86. Carex Barbara, Dewey, Bot. Mex. Bound. 231. 



C. Schotiii, Dewey, 1. c. 



C. Prescottiana, Oluey, Bot. King's Rep. 369 ; W. Boott, Bot. 

 Calif, ii. 244. 

 Slender and lax but mostly erect, two feet or more high, glaucous : 

 leaves surpassing the culm : bracts leafy : pistillate spikes four or 

 more, very long-linear (three to eight inches long), cernuous, more or 

 less slenderly peduncled : scales dark, obtuse or muticous: perigynium 

 small, appressed, pale, more or less attenuated below, abruptly con- 

 tracted into a short and entire beak, nearly nerveless, shorter than the 

 scale. Known only from a few imperfect and immature specimens. 

 ■Its lax habit and very much prolonged linear spikes are its best known 

 characters. The Oregon plant is the most mature of any. Its scales 

 are narrower than in the other specimens. — " Banks of streams, Santa 

 Barbara, Cal.," Parry, 1850, the original station for C. Barbarce and 

 C. Schottii ; Los Angeles, Calif., Prof. Wood, ex.. Herb. Dewey; Nas- 

 qually, Oregon, Wilkes Exped. 308 ; and according to Oluey (King's 

 Rep. 369), " Indian Territory on the False "Washita, between Fort 

 Cobb and Fort Arbuckle, Dr. Palmer." One of Hayden's Nebraska 

 plants was named O. Barharce by Dewey, but Olney declares that it 

 is not the same as the original species. I have seen this plant, and 

 although it appears to accord with the description of C. BarharcB it 

 is probably a large immature G. Jamesii. 



87. Carex maritima, Muller, Fl. Dan. t. 703. 



C. paleacea, Wahl. Kongl. Acad. Handl. xxiv. 164. 

 Salt marshes along the coast, from Boston to Newfoundland and 

 Hudson's Bay. Europe. 



88. Carex crinita, Lamarck, Diet, de Bot. iii. 393. 



C paleacea of authors, not Wahl. 



C. crinita, var. paleacea, Dewey, Sill. Journ. x. 270. 



C. Mitchelliana, M. A. Curtis, Sill. Journ. xliv. 84. 



C crinita, var. minor, Boott, 111. 18. 



C. Porteri, Olney, Exsicc. fasc. v. 



G. crinita, var. angusta, Olney, 1. c. 

 Canada to Florida and Texas. 

 Var. GTNANDRA, Schwcinitz & Torrey, Monogr. 360. 



C gynandra, Schwein. An. Tab. 



G. crinita., var. Garoliniana, Olney, Exsicc. fasc. iii. no. 8. 

 Too near the species. — New England to Michigan and Florida. 



