TWO NEW BRITISH PLANTS. 291 



spikes usually erect, lower ones sometimes nodding ; 3 or 4 lower 

 ones female with a few male flowers at the apex, 1^-2^ in. long, 

 on short exsert peduncles; male spikes sessile, 2 or 3, about an inch 

 long; glumes of female spikes ovate, obtuse (var. mutic/i), or 

 mucronate (var. cmpichtta) ; mucro in lower glumes long and very 

 scabrid ; glumes light brown, more rarely deep red-brown to nearly 

 black (var. hanuitdlejiis, katteiiatensia) ; keel and mucro green ; male 

 glumes ovate, oblong, obtuse, light brown, often with scarious 

 edges; utricle a little shorter than the glumes, flattened, lenticular, 

 obscurely many-nerved, with a short conical blunt perforate beak, 

 yellowish when ripe, usually dotted with red ; margins blunt, com- 

 monly minutely scabrid ; stigma bifid or trifid, short, cleft to the 

 beak of the utricle ; caryopsis lenticular, ovate, narrowed at base, 

 transversely grooved. 



G. lanceoJata Dew. Silliman's Journ. 29, p. 249. — C reducta 

 Drej. Rev. p. 36. — C. Hoppneri Boott, 111. ; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 

 ii. 219, t. 220. — C. siihspathacea Wormskiold Flor. Dan. t. 1530; 

 Drej. Rev. 34 ; Fries Mantiss. 3, 148 ; Summ. Veget. 231 ; 

 Anderss. Fl. Scand. 50, t. 5, fig. 49; Lange, /. c, 74; Kunze 

 Suppl. 98, t. 24 ; Flora Ross. 304. — C. bmcteata Gieseke (^/ide 

 Boott.) — C. discolor Nyland. Spic. Fl. Fin. iii. p. 12; Anderss. 54, 

 t. 2, fig. 38 ; Flora Ross. — C. epigeios Fries Summ. Veget. 233. 



Smaller ; leaves narrower, culm more slender, 3-6 in. tall : 

 spikes fewer, shorter, sometimes very reduced, with very few 

 flowers, pale-coloured ; utricles elliptical. 



Loc. — Scotland, Caithness, sand-banks along the River Wick, 

 J. Grant ! Scandinavia, Varanger Fiord, Fries ! Sommerfelt, 

 Christiania, Bhjtt\ Uleaborg, Nylanderl (Fries Herb. Norm. 77). 

 Nordland, Wahlenbenj ; Tana, Lundl Mouth of River Ponoj, 

 Fellman (PI. Arct. 274). Hisingen, Bohus, Fries\ (var. hmniato- 

 lepis). Litsi, East Lapland, Xylanderl Faroe Islands. Russia, 

 Kola, Fellmann. Iceland, Norotunga, Groenlund. Spitzbergen, 

 Kamschatka. North America, Maine, S. Gooddle (fide A. Gray). 

 East Massachusetts, Morowjl Hood's Canal, Soquamish-country, 

 Tolmie. Kotzebue's Sound, Beechey. Labrador, Hudson's Bay, &c. 



Var. minor. — With the preceding. Scandinavia, Bodo, Nord- 

 land, Arnell ! Kantalahti, East Lapland, Fellmann ! (PL Arct. 

 No. 275). North America, California, swamps near Mendocino 

 City, Bolander 4702 ! Greenland, Vahl ! Hudson's Bay, Cumber- 

 land House. Labrador. 



Explanation of Plates. 



Plate 261. — Schcenus ferruginetis Linn. Fig. 1. Whole plant, two-thirds 

 nat. size. 2. A capitulum, enlarged. 3. A spikelet. 4. The same opened. 

 5. A flower. 



Plate 262. — Carex salina var. kattegatemis. Fig. 1. A complete plant, 

 reduced. 2. Glume from the lower part of a female spike, enlarged. 3. Glume 

 from upper part. 4. Female flower. 5. Eipe utricle. 



