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uated below or obovate, beaked with the orifice emarginatc, rusty or pale-green, 
strigose-hairy, with 2 marginal nerves, narrower and twice as long as the 
broad ovate obtuse purple scale, which has a broad whitish-hyaline ciliated 
margin ; achenium stipitate and triquetrous, rusty.— Arctic America, (Rich- 
ardson;) Rocky Mountains of British America, (Drummond, accordnig to 
Boott ;) subarctic Alaska, (Onion, Kinnicott and Ilardisty.) On Cottonwood 
Lake in the Wahsatch ; 9,000 feet altitude ; July. (1,259.) 
Carex Rossii, Boott. Spikelets 4-5, pale, few-flowered, the terminal one 
staminate, the rest pistillate, each of 3-G alternate and disiiiicf llowcrs, ilie 
upper 3 spikes approximate, the lower remote, exsertly but uiKMpially long- 
pedunculate ; an upper bract surpassing the culm, the lower slicallicd, and 
all but the lower short-peduncled ; stigmas 3 ; perigyiiiiiin oval, stipilatc, 
long-beaked, bifid, pubescent, nerveless, equaling the ovate-hiiieedlalc 
acute or cuspidate scale; achenium globose-triangular, obhise. — liocky 
Mountains, latitude 52*^, (Drummond;) Colorado, (G20 Hall & Harbour, 
592 and 592 A. of Vasey, E. L. Greene ;) New Mexico, (889 Fendlcr.) 
East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch and Uintas ; 
8-9,000 feet altitude; July-September. (1,260.) 
Carex capillaris, L. New Hampshire, New York, and on T^ake 
Michigan; on the Saskatchewan, (Bourgcau,) and nortliward, (Richardson;) 
Colorado, (Parry, Hall & Harbour, Greene.) On Cottonwood Lake in the 
Wahsatch; 9,000 feet altitude ; July. (1,261.) 
Carex lanuginosa, Michx. From New England to Kentucky, and 
north and westw^ard to the Saskatchewan, Mackenzie River and Oregon ; 
Colorado and New Mexico. In the Shoshone and East 1 Iiiuiboldt ]\Iountains, 
Nevada, and in the AValisatch and Uintas ; 6-7,000 feet altitude ; June- 
August. (1,262.) 
Carex ^mathorhynciia, Desv. FL CHI. 6. 224. Spikes 4, cylindric, 
erect, a^^proximate, dense-flowered, the 2 u[)p(!r sfaniinale witii the lower 
scales obtuse^ ciliate and purple, white upon the maririns, the resi pistillate 
and the lowest sometimes peduncled ; l)racts leafy, tin? lower e(|ualiiig tiic 
culm; stigmas 3; pcrigynium ovate, l>eak<'<l, eniarginate or ijideotale, elollied 
with long hairs, nerved, rusty-colored, pale at the base, the beak purple, 
shorter than or cquahng the oval acuminate or aeule pnrjd*; scale; aeheiiiuin 
oval, triquetrous, witli the base of the si} le contorted. — This sjieeies seems 
too near C. lanuginosa. Dr. Boott in lllasl. states its affinity to be with C. 
