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outer equaling the loiig-mucroiiate capsule. — Arizona to Western Texas. East 
Humboldt Mountains and in the Walisatch ; 6,000 feet altitude. (1,205.) 
It also occurs with few (rarely solitary) heads, the flowers 12-20, or even 
20-50, dark-ljrown. — From the Saskatchewan to Washington Territory and 
south to Colorado and New Mexico. More frequent in Nevada, and also col- 
lected in the Uintas; 4-8,000 feet altitude; July-Septemhcr. (1,20G.) 
JuNCUS cnLOROCEPHALUS, Eng.; c.^ 485. Stems 1-1 2° hi oh, from 
a short running rootstock, csespitose; leaves |-1" wide, coni^jicsscd and 
equitant, with auriculate sheaths; heads G-T'' broad, many- (15-25-) flowcfcd, 
solitary or 2-3 and clustered, about equaling the mend)ranous spathe ; flowers 
2 1^''' long, conspicuously pcdiccllcd, pale; sepals ol)lo]ig, very obtuse or the 
outer (very rarely the inner) ones mucronate, with ln-oad iii(Mii1)raiu)us mar- 
gins, equal or the inner ones a little the longest, scarcely exccci Ihe sta- 
mens; anthers long-linear, on very short fdamcnts ; style exscitcd, much 
exceeding the ovate ovary; capsule ovat(^, {)l)tuse, mucronate, l-ccUcd, shorter 
than the sepals; seeds ovate, pointed at each end, reticulate. — Mountains of 
California ; near Carson City, Nevada, (Anderson.) 
PONTEDERIACE^E. 
ScHOLLERxV GRAMINPU, Willd. From Noiiji (^arolina lo Cii undn ; on ilic 
Lower Rio Grande, (Scliott.) On the Carson liiver, neai- ]^ni|>irc ( 'Hy, Nevada, 
(507% Torrey.) 
COMMELYNACE^E. 
TradescANTIA VlRGlNlCA, L. From Florida to Wcstci-n New Vork and 
Lake Winnipcir, and westward to Western 'l'<'\as, New Me\i<-(), and the bas(^ 
of the Ro(dvy .AFountains. Reported l>y Diirand as eolleeled on Elk Ibn-n 
Creek in Ltah. 
cyreracej:. 
Cyperus inflexus, ]\ruh1. From Nortli C^n-olina to Canada and Laki- 
Winnipeii-, and west to ^Lissouri and the Upper Rhitte, (James,) Arkansas 
and New Mexico: ( 'aliiornia. Tniekee, irninbohh and Hul>y \'alleys, Ne- 
vada; 4-0,000 leel allitu(h': July-.Sej)tend)er. Referred hy Dr. IJentham 
and Dr. Torrey to C. arUlatm, RottI). (1.2(>7.) 
