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BOTANY. 
This seems to be a very distinct species, inhabiting high latitudes and 
altitudes. Dr. Boott, in liis Illustrations^ refers it as a variety to C. vulgaris. 
It has a stouter culm than that species, with longer and broader leaves and 
bracts, rough upon the edges. Its perigynium is also nearly nerveless. In 
Fl. Rossica it is referred to C. aquatilis, Var. In Fries' Summary, p. 229, 
where this was described, there is evidently an omission of the syllable di 
before stigmaticis, 
Carex vulgaris, Fries, Var. juncella, Fries. (C. aquatilis, Var. nar- 
difolia, Wahl. C. angustifolia, Sm.) Spikelets 4-5, terminal one staminate, 
(stamens brick-colored,) the remainder pistillate, the upper ones approximate 
and the lower remote ; stigmas 2 ; perigynium green, nerved ; scale black. 
Spikelets, culm, and leaves all slender, the latter elongated, " convolute-fili- 
form, " {Fries,) ox ''flat and convolute," Swedish Lapland si^eci- 
mens from Prof Andersson have their leaves flat. On the shores of Cotton- 
wood Lake in the Wahsatch, and on Provo River in the Uintas ; 7-9,000 
feet altitude ; July. (1,241.) 
Carex Jamesii, Torr. Spikelets 5-6, the lowest sometimes peduncu- 
late or rarely radical on a long peduncle, the two upper ones staminate, black- 
ish-purple, (the stamens brick-colored,) the lower one small ; pistillate spike- 
lets 3, sometimes 4, oblong, cylindrical, densely flowered, the uppermost 
sometimes with a few male flowers ; bracts leafy, not usually sheathing, the 
lowest sometimes short- vaginate and exceeding the culm ; stigmas 2; peri- 
gynium obovate, strongly nerved, glaucous or light-brown, the beak bidentate 
or emarginate with the mouth slightly ciliated or toothed, longer than the 
purplish-black scale, wliich has a greenish-white midrib ; achenium orbic- 
ular. Whole plant glaucous; culm 8-20' high; leaves broad, leathery, 
shorter than the culm, amplectant at base, the lower spreading and then 
incurved, with pule sheaths.— From the Platte, (48 Geyer, according to 
Boott,) to Colorado, (James, Nuttall,) and New Mexico, (887 Fendler;) 
Southern Oregon, (Cronkhite, at 4,200 feet altitude;) CaUfoniia, Silver 
Valley, (Bolander, at 8,000 feet altitude.) In Diamond and Ruby Valleys, 
Nevadn, and in the Wahsatch, near Salt Lake City ; 4,500-6,000 feet alti- 
tude ; May-July. (1,242.) 
Var. (C. Nebraskensis, Dewey. Sill. Jour,, n. s., 18. 102.) Spikelets 
5-6, the two upper ones sl;uni(uite with the lower one smaller, the remainder 
(3, sometimes 4) pistillate, short-cylindrical, densely flowered, the upper one 
