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(see Coulter's Man.). — Uinta Mts., Utah, according to Oluey ; near 

 Ebbett's Pass, Calif., Brewer 2063, according to Olney and W. Boott; 

 Rocky Mts. of British America, Drummond ; maritime rocks, Labra- 

 dor, Allen ; Greenland. Kamtschatka. Europe. 



272. Carex glareosa, Wahl. Kongl. Acad. Handl. xxiv. 146. 

 Perigynium short-beaked and almost like that of C canescens : scales 



acute, about as long as the perigynium : culms weak : leaves narrower : 

 otherwise like the last. — Greenland, Vahl, Fries, etc., to Behring 

 Straits, Wright, and Shumagin Isl., Alaska, Harrington. Kamtschatka. 

 Europe. 



Var. c^SPiTOSA, Boeckeler, Linnaea, xxxix. 76. 

 C. ursina, Dewey, Sill. Journ. xxvii. 240. 

 C. glareosa, var. jS, Boott, 111. 153. 

 0. glareosa, var. ursina, Bailey, Carex Cat. 

 Small (an inch or two high) and densely cespitose : culms often 

 curved : heads smaller. — Greenland, Fries, Warming & Holm. Spitz- 

 bergen. Kamtschatka. 



* * * Perigynium ovate-lanceolate or nearly linear, mostly in loose spikes. 



273. Carex bromoides, Schkuhr, Riedgr. Nachtr. 8, f. 176. 

 Swamps and wet places from Florida and Louisiana to Canada and 



westward to Colorado and California, Hillebrand 2315. 



274. Carex brizoides, Linn., var. nemoralis, Wimmer, Fl. Siles. 

 401. 



Creeping : culm one to two feet high, flaccid, mostly a little longer 

 than the narrow and lax light-colored leaves : spikes three to six, 

 linear (four to five lines long), yellow, contiguous in a small and open 

 chaffy head : perigynium lanceolate, greenish, nerved, rough on the 

 thin margins, about the length of or a little longer than the thin and 

 appressed muticous scale. — Arctic America, according to Boeckeler. 

 Europe. 



275. Carex Deweyana, Schweinitz, An. Tab. 



Named in honor of Professor Chester Dewey, 1784-1867, author 

 of forty-two articles in Silliman's Journal on American Carices, em- 

 bracing the years between 1824 and 1866. — Northern States north- 

 ward and westward to California and Oregon ; New Mexico, Wright. 

 Variable. 



"Var. BoLANDERi, W. Boott, Bot. Calif, ii. 236. 



C. Bolanderi, Olney, Proc. Amer. Acad. vii. 393. 

 California to Washington Territory. 



