60 THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. [Feb. 



C. lupulina, Muhl. : "Wet meadows ; common. 



C. Macounii, Dewey : Along a small stream on lot 7, 10th 

 range of Seymour ; rare. 



C. retrorsa, Schw. : Marshy meadows, and along small rivulets. 



C. Schweinitzii, Dewey : In a wet swampy meadow, near 

 Baltimore, Northumberland Co. ; abundant. 



C. Hartii, Dewey : Border of a small stream in F. Macoun's 

 farm, Seymour. 



C. Bella-villa, Dewey : In a ditch about four miles north of 

 Belleville, along the gravelled road leading to Stirling. 



C. monile, Tuckerman : Low meadows along the Moira, North 

 Hastings. Also, C. Vaseyi, Dewey — which proves to be a young 

 state of this plant. 



C. ampullacea, Good. : Ponds in meadows, also in swamps ; 

 common. 



C. cylindraca, Schw. : Swamps and wet meadows ; abundant. 



C. longirostris, Torrey : Rocks, Gibson's Mountain ; ' Big 

 Boulder ' of the Trent valley ; rocks, Marmora. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF THE NEW SPECIES. 



Carex Hartii, Dewey ; Spicis staminiferis 1-3, saepe 2, 

 interdum 1, vel raro nulla, cylindraceis gracilibus variis erectis, 

 suprema longiore in medio vel supra vel infra fructifera, sessilibus 

 squamas lanceolatus acutas subfuscas ferentibus ; spicis pistilliferis 

 2-7, vulgo 4, cylindraceis oblongis sublaxifloris et infra praaecipue 

 subremotis plerumque erectis foliaceo-bracteatis, superioribus 

 sessilibus saepe ad apicem staminiferis, inferioribus exserto pedun- 

 culitis interdum supra staminiferis infimis duobus longo-exserto- 

 pedunculatis interdum recurvis, cum bracteis culmum superan- 

 tibus ; fructibus tristigmaticis ovatis inflatis vel conico-ellipticis 

 longo-rostratis et teretibus bidentatis nervosis infra teretibus et 

 stipitatis kevibus divergentibus et adultis prope retrorsis, squama 

 lanceolata acuta margine albida latera fusca multum longioribus ; 

 culmi foliis longis strictis modosis per-angustis margine scaber- 

 rimis et saepe culmum laevem plusquam duplo praecedentibus. 



Culm 15-25 inches high, erect, slender above, smooth except 

 the highest part of the edges, with bracts and leaves surpassing 

 the culm, and the leaves very narrow and long, often more than 



