CATALOGUE. 
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Kentucky. East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada ; 8,500-9,000 feet altitude ; 
July. (1,223.) 
Var. GRACILIS, Boott, in part. Spikes chestnut-colored, narrow, ovate, 
with 4-6 ovate few-flowered spikelets ; leaves lax, long, and narrow. — Colo- 
rado (592 Hall & Harbour, 603 Vasey) and New Mexico, (884 Fendler.) In 
the East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch above Salt Lak(^ 
City; 5-9,000 feet altitude ; May-August. (1,224.) 
Carex Douglasii, Boott. Spike dioecious, with about twelve, some- 
times more, ovate spikelets, the upper closely aggregated, the lower occasion- 
ally remote and compound ; bracts sometimes setaceous, Inroad at base, soine- 
tinies scale-like and mucronate; style cxserted; stigmas 2, very loiii^ ; \)rv[- 
gynium elliptic-lanceolate or ovate, tapering to a long serrated bilid Ix'uk, 
shorter than the lanceolate acute scale; achenium orbicular. Root creeping; 
culm 6-12' high. (C. Nuttnllii, Dew., Sill. Jour. 43. 92, 1841. C. MeeMi 
Dew., Sill. Jour., n. s., 24. 28, 1857. C. siccata, Dew., in Emory s Report.) — 
In various collections; from the Rocky Mountains in lal it ndc 52° to AVash- 
ington Territory and southward to California, Nebraska, Colorado, (594 
Vasey, Rev. E. L. Greene,) New Mexico, (878 Fendler,) and North(>rn :\r('\' 
ico, (Parry.) Rather frequent on shghtly moist foot-hills and ridges in Wcsl- 
ern Nevada, at 4-6,000 feet altitude, and found in the Wahsatch at the height 
of 7,000 feet; May-August. (1,225.) 
Var. MINOR, Olney. {C. petasata^ Dew., in Ilayden's Nehraska Plants.) 
Spikes small, not closely aggregated; perigynium and scale small.— Ne- 
braska, (Hayden, 600 Hall & Harbour.) 
Var. brunnea, Olney. Leaves longer or equaling the culm ; .^])i kd. ■! s W w ; 
bracts scale-like, the lower long-awncd; scales and stigmas brown.— Califor- 
nia, (805 Coulter, 4503 Bolander.) C;irson and Steamboat Spring Valleys, 
Nevada; 4,500 feet altitude ; May. All immature. (1,226.) 
Carex marcida, Boott. Spike oblong, pale, com])()scd of numerous small 
ovate aggregated androgynous spikelets, staminalo at to]), \hr lower spikelets 
compound; stigmas 2 ; perigynium tawny, sulxirbicular, (,r ovale taperin- to 
a bifid beak, plano-convex, nerved, wing(^d, the upper margins serrated, short- 
en a .Vlicate plant ori^nnallv from Carlton House, the Hp- i>n, n not ,„at,m> an.l tin- h... l.a.l no 
norv...; vonr specimens ar. n.aiuro and show more or fow r n. s. th. >iM. nl.,- -(,. A.. tln,y vv, r 
more nnmorons ?) It is near C. muricata, L., l.nt ditlVrs in rn ,;, api.iv.s. d >...ls and >rnall.T sp,c„ as^UJ 
of which have bracts and cuspidate sfinama'."-C'. Hookcrium, Dew, .n JJot. J/ex. Lo,nul, is, I th.uk, 
C. muricata. 
