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apex; aclienium ovate, nisty-olive. Culm 2- 3° high, rigidly erect, triquet- 
rous, rough above and between the spikes ; the sheathing leaves long, fibril- 
lose.— California, (Hartweg, Coulter, &c.; 529, G72, G82, 683, 15GG, 2G29 
and 3866 Brewer, and 27 Bolander.) Banks of the Provo River, in the 
Wahsatch; 6,000 feet altitude ; July. (1,245.) 
Carex AVatsoni, Olney. Neic sp. Culm 18' high, erect, leafy; leaves 
clasping at base, the 2 uppermost much exceeding the culm, the lower short 
and sheathing ; spikes 7, deep reddish-brown (claret,) the upper 4 staminate, 
the topmost long and the rest, short, all aggregated ; barren scales acute, 
lanceolate, hispid, aristate, membranous, deep-claret on the margins wdth a 
pale 3-nerved centre, ciHate at the apex ; stigmas 2, short ; perigynium 
deeply cleft, the bifid beak spreading and clothed with a few^ lax hairs ; scales 
lanceolate, obtuse, hispid, aristate, the apex ciliate. — W^ashoe Mountains, on a 
creek-bank at the mouth of King's Caiion near Carson City : 4,500 feet alti- 
tude ; May. This species has some slight resemblance to C. ScJiottii, a plant 
found by Dr. Parry at Santa Barbara, California, and described by Dr. Dewey in 
BoL Mex. Bound, without the aid of stigma, style or perigynium and, I believe, 
without leaves, yet looking so unlike any other American form that there was 
little doubt that it was new to our Flora. The present plant differs from 
that in its staminate and pistillate scales — and in w^hat other points who can 
tell? (1,246.) 
Caeex rigida. Good. Greenland and the Arctic Regions of America ; 
California; Colorado; Northeastern Utah, in the Uintas, (Hayden, 1870.) 
Clover Mountains, Nevada ; 10,000 feet altitude ; September. Pursh mentions 
a doubtful form from hemlock woods of Vermont and New Hampshire. (1,247.) 
Carex saxatilis, L. (C. j^ulla, Good.) Spikes 2-3, the staminate 
single, the pistillate generally remote, the lowest peduncled ; bracts short, 
erect; stigmas' 2; perigynium spreading, elliptic-globose, blackish-purple, pale 
at base, beaked, emarginate at the orifice, nerveless^ longer than the obtuse 
ovate dark scale, which is membranous at the apex ; achenium obovate, lentic- 
ular-compressed, of a pale-rusty color.— Greenland ; Arctic America, accord- 
ing to Boott, but this last is probably C. compacta, a cpiite distinct species. 
Var. xMAjoR. Spikes 4-5, cylindrical, bright-rusty, the staminate 2, rarely 1, 
slender, acute, the pistillate 2-3, subremote, thick, obtuse, the lower pedun- 
cled, sheathless and slightly nodding; stigmas 2 ; perigynium oblong-ovate, 
beaked, bifurcate, inflated, yew;- and distincthj nerved, suberect, reddish-biwn 
