22 J. Carey on the Distortion of the Achenium in Carez. 
Penn.—58. Pitisburg, Penn.—59. Salt River, Kentucky.—60. 
Locality unknown. A specimen weighing two ounces, and found 
among the minerals of Prof. Stromeyer, by Prof. Wahler of Gat 
tingen. Gr.==7 547, han by Manross. 
i I ay =e) < BRBB 
Cobalt : ; : - ili: 
Tin, - - - - 0-03 
Tron dnd Nickel, ¢ Sine spend 
100-16 
Prof. Clark has omitted to mention the. St. Augustine’s Bay, 
Madagascar, locality of meteoric iron, where the quantity is re- 
ported to be immense ;* and since the publication of his paper 
has appeared in the proceedings of the 6th meeting of the Amer. 
Association published the present year, the notice (p. 188) by 
Dr. Le Conte of two large pieces of meteoric iron seen by him 
while passing through the village of Tucson, a frontier town of 
Sonora, near the Gila. 
Arr. I1L.—Remarks on the Distortion of the Achenium in cer- 
tain species of Carex; by Joun Carey. 
Some time ago, when preparing an arrangement of the genus 
Carex, for Dr. Gray’s Manual of the Botany of the Northern 
i * ited oo I observed that the specimens, in his perhanaye 
recalled to it by some specimens received from Northern New 
York. Finding in these the same anomaly, I have since care- 
fully examined such specimens as have fallen under my notice, 
and I now submit the result of my observations, which, as I 
have not met with any allusion to the subject, may be of some 
interest botanists. 
The normal shape of the achenium, in C. crinita is lenticulat 
and slightly obovate (fig. 1); but t this I have scarcely ever ob- 
served in the var. paleacea, the most common form in the North- 
ern and Eastern States, distinguished by the very long awn of the 
scales. In this variety I find the achenia to exhibit almost every 
gradation from the nearly perfect type, to the most distorted form. 
ase See Paces of Amer. Association of the Geologists, at New Haven, April, 
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