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BOTANY. 
Beechyana. On p. 207 of the same work, lie thinks future observers may unite 
this species, C. lanKginosa, mul others, to what he woukl call the typical 
form, C. filUonnis, L. Mariposa, California, (in Herb. Torr., Irom Herb. 
Boott. ;) New Mexico, (261 Tlmrber, a paler plant than usual, named G. 
lanuginosa, in Bot. Mex. Bound. ; Dr. Palmer.) Stream-bank in the Ilavallah 
Mountains, Nevada, and near the mouth of Jordan River, Utah ; 4,300-6,500 
feet altitude ; June. (1,263.) 
Carex aeistata. Brown. Arctic America and the Rocky Mountains 
of British America, (Richardson, Drummond ;) Canada, (Macoun ;) New 
Mexico, Fort Defiance, (Dr. Palmer.) In Ruby Valley, Nevada, and banks 
of the Jordan near its mouth, Utah; 4,300-6,000 feet altitude; June-Sep- 
tember. (1,264.) 
Carex uteiculata, Boott. From New England to Ohio; British 
America, Cumberland House, (Richardson.) Ruby Valley, Nevada, and in 
the Wahsatch and Uintas ; 6,000 feet altitude ; July. (1,265.) 
Var. /3. MINOR, Boott. From New England to California. Ruby Valley, 
Nevada ; 6,000 feet altitude ; July. (1,266.) 
Var. GLOBOSA, Olney. A form with sessile globular spikes. California, 
in the Sierras at 8,000 feet, (6197 Bolander.) Thousand Spring Valley, 
Nevada; 6,000 feet altitude; September. (1,267.) Specimens from the 
shore of Cottonwood Lake in the Wahsatch are interesting as showing pro- 
liferous perigynia, which give an unusual appearance to the spikelets ; 9,000 
feet altitude ; July. (1,268.) An unusual form from Ruby Valley, Nevada, 
I also refer to this species ; 6,000 feet altitude ; August. (1,269.) C. utri- 
culata, as long ago indicated by its author, has much closer affinities with C. 
vesicar'ia than with C. ainpuUacea. 
Carex vesicaeia, L. Oregon and California. On the margin of a sub- 
alpine lake in the Uintas; 9,500 feet altitude; August'; this resembles C. 
utnculata, l)ut differs in its staminate spike, scales and perigynium. Also on 
a stream l>ank in Ilmilington Valley, Nevada, having conical fruit but no ripe 
achenia ; 6,000 feet altitude ; August. (1,270.) 
Carex ampullacea. Good, if restricted to the ordinary European form 
with canaliculate involute leaves, has no representative iji these specimens 
from Nevada and Utah. The American specimens that I have seen of this 
type are from ^Vfaliie, (ndlet of Moosehead Lake, (C. E. Smith,) Michio-an 
Portage River, (Prof Porter,) and Minnesota, (Dr. J. Leidy.) There ""are 
