Xor/h American Cyjjenicca:. SS*/ 



E. callitliri:c, Cham, in Me.y, Ci/p. nov. in Man. Acad. St. Pctcrsb. 

 <6ser.) l.p. 203, t. 2? 



Hab. Melville Island, Arctic America, CajJt. Famj ; 

 Kotzebue's Sound, Cdiif. Beechcy; Greenland, Caj)t. Sahinc. 

 A native also of the northern parts and high mountains of 

 Europe. 



Obs. I have seen no Nonh American specimens of this 

 plant, which it is very difilcult to distinguish Irom Fj. vagina- 

 fiim, except by the shorter anthers and hairs. 



The E. caJUtkrtx of Chamisso, described at full length and 

 figured in the v.ork quoted above, was found on the Island of 

 vSt. Lawrence, near Behring's Strait. Except in the leaves 

 being scabrous, it appears to differ so little from F. vaginatuvit 

 that it can hardlj^ be regarded as a distinct species. 



4. Eriophorum CriAMissoxis, C. A. Meyer. 



Calms solitary, terete, smooth; leaves compressed, smooth; 

 sheathes somewhat inllated ; spike oblong ; anthers linear. 



E. Chamissonis, C. A. Meyer hi Mem. Acad. SL Pet. (G. ser.) 1. p. 

 204. t. 3. 



Ftoot (rhizonia) creeping extensively- Culm 6 — 12 inches high, about 

 as thick as a packthread, soft, smooth, leafj' below, naked above. Leaves 

 linear, channelled, obtuse, very smooth. Splice (wilhout the hairs) 

 about 6 line j long. Scales lanceolate, acute, blncki.^h, with a white sca- 

 rious margin. Hairs numerous, reddish, more than an inch long in the 

 mature spike Stamens 3 ; anthers about a line in length., yellow. Styles 

 3 — 4-cieft. Nut ohloTig, mucronate, compressed, quadrangular or trian- 

 gular, attenuate at the base, smooth. — Bieyrr. 



Hab. Unalaschka ; also in Kamtschatka and on the Alps 

 of Altai, Chamisso. 



Obs. I have not seen this plant, but it appears to be scarcely 

 distinct from E, vao;inatum. 



