38 BOTANICAL BULLETIN. 



Botanical Club," As the new species is native in your vicinity, you may facilitate 

 its re-discovery by giving it place in j'our Bulletin. 



Cyperus Wolfii, n. sp. — Culm triangular, glabrous, leafy at the base. Umbel 

 simple, about 5-rayed, rays very unequal, monocephalous. Heads spherical, sim- 

 ple, of man}- spikes. Involucre about o-leaved, 2 of the leaves nearlj' as long as 

 the culm. Spikes densely capitate, oblong, 4 — 5-flowered, scales imbricate, ob- 

 tuse, submucronate, 11-nerved, with a gi'een keel. Rachis broadly winged with a 

 pair of hyaline awn-pointed scales. Filaments 3, deciduous. Style trifid. Ache- 

 nia triangular— obovoid, apiculate, incurved. 



Found by Mr. John Wolf, of Canton, Illinois, in Anna, 111. The culms are 

 2-3 feet high, slender, the leaves nearly as long, narrowlj' linear, those of the in- 

 volucre more than half as long. The spikes are 3—6 lines long, 3 — 6-flowered, 

 tin all J' a little brownish. 



In general aspect it resembles C. ^rilicuhnis. but difi'ers widely in its spikes, both 

 from this and from C. Gnuji. It is most nearly allied to C. ^Veftert (Kunth.) of 

 Australia, but the short involucre, and composite heads, and 6— 9-flowered spikes 

 of that species are sufficiently distinctive.— A. Wood. 



^"^ Some notes from Pulaski County, Va. — I send you an Arisoema to show you 



the size of things here. Many plants growing to moderate size elsewhere, assume 

 huge proportions on the red soil of Rich Hill. The bank of New river under the 

 hill-side was splendidly set off a few weeks ago with 'tlie graceful bells of Ilalesia. 

 Beneath, a month later, I found a variety of Viola tricolor, Woodsia obtusa, Saxi- 

 fraga Viryinica, and a few other things. Otir cliiFs are now covered with the Sax- 

 ifrage. I also found Draba, and a variety of Sedum, witli snowy flowers. The 

 stem shoots up from amid rosulate leaves, which are obovate, or very short-spatu- 

 late. often not rounded, but wedge-shaped, giving the idea, at first, of leaves of 

 Draba ramosissiina. Stem leaves spatulate to linear-spatulate, close set on the high 

 simple stem, and more sparingly on the three branches at its summit. Parts of 

 the flower in 4s (center one in 5s), ovate-hmceolate, somewhat pointed petals i?o;ce 

 the length of the ovate, blunt sepals. It is probably S. Nevii which Mr. Canby 

 found on Salt Pond Mountain.— Howard Shriver. 



Plants new to Jefferson County. — After making out a list of plants new 

 to the flora of Jefterson County, for the last number of the Bulletin, Mr. A. H. 

 Young handed me the list given below, containing plants recently found but not 

 included in the list of last month. 



Ceanothus Ame.ricanus, L. Aphgllon iinijlorum, T. & G. 



Lespedeza violacea, Pers. Pedindaris lanceolatu, 3Ix. 



Apios tuberosa, Mcench. ,Scutellariu canescens, Xutt. 



Hydrocotyle Americana, L. Lithospermum hirtum, Lehm. 



Aster carnens, Nees. Quercus imbricaria, Mx. 



" Oistivus, Ait. Alims servulata, Ait. 



Solidago radula, Nutt. Juniperus Virginiana, L. 



Helianthus tomentosus, Mx, Cyperus diandrns, Torr. 



" strumosus, L. " flavicomus, Mx. 



Coreopsis trichosperma, Mx. " inflexus, Muhl. 



Bidens cernua, L. " phymatodes, Muhl. 



Artemisia biennis, Willd. " strigosus, L. 



Nabalus albus, Hook. " Michauxiamis, Schultes. 



" altissimus, Hook. " ovitlaris, Torr. 



Eleocharis obtusa, Sch. Kyllingia pumila, Mx. 



Scirpus Eriophorum, Mx. Fimbristylis autumnalis, R. & S. 



Osmunda cinnamomea, L. Ed. 



Some Carices near Hanover, Ind.— Xo justice has been done to the large and 

 interesting genus Carex in this neighborhood, and we are but beginning to get to- 



