330 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [Dec., 
-nerved and slightly hairy, short beaked, thin in texture, empty, 
twice longer than the white-hyaline scale-—Revere, near Boston, 
Mass. C.E. Faxon. (Fig. B.) 
CAREX GRACILLIMA X PUBESCENS Bailey, 1. c. 107. 
C. Sullivantit Boott, Sill. Journ. xlii. 29. 
CAREX STRICTA X SALINA Bailey, l. c. 85. 
C. spiculosa ? W. Boutt, Bot. Gaz. ix. 88. 
“* Forma sterilis saline” Christ, Cat, Car. Eur. 7. 
CAREX TENTACULATA X LuRIDA Bailey, l. ¢. 69. 
C. tentaculata, var.? altior Boott, Til. 94. 
CAREX BULLATA X UTRICULATA Bailey, 1. ¢. 68. 
C. Olneyi Boott, [1]. 15, t. 42. 
EXPLANATION oF PLATE XI.—4A, Carex arctata flexilis, <}; a, peri- 
gynium ; a’, scale of same, 7. 
B, Carex gracillima virescens, <4}; 6, perigynium ; b’, scale of same, <7- 
The Flora of our Southwestern Archipelago. II.’ 
WM. 8. LYON. 
The absence of the great genus Astragalus from Guadalupe 
struck Mr. Watson as somewhat remarkable.2 It seems to the 
writer, however, phenomenal that the genus should have any rep- 
resentation not only upon that island, but upon any of those un- 
der our consideration. 
The “ Rattleweeds” take as kindly as does the horned toad to 
the dry, arid basins of the interior, and of the vast number known 
but few are reported from the immediate sea-board. Only four 
species I know of approach anywhere near the coast-line adjacent 
to the Santa Barbara group.* ‘The papery texture of the pods of- 
most species unfits them for transportation by water, while the 
pernicious nature of some species makes them avoided by ani- 
mals, and an inherent antipathy to the moisture-laden atmosphere 
of the seas keeps them mainly retired from the coast. Neverthe- 
less three species manage to reach Catalina, two get to Cedros, one 
to Clemente, and the genus does not fail altogether till far out at 
sea on Guadalupe. 
1 Continued from page 205, 
? Proc. Am. 
ee cp. it, 
A, » A. Antiselli, A. didymocarpus, A. pycnostachyus. 
