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truncate at the base, somewhat aggregated, the lower sho 
eeikcd. scales various, from lanceolate and. acute to.o 
d obtuse, brown with a white nerve, longer than the thi 
T Sees perigynium.—Salt marsh, Vancouver Islat 
887. Mi acoun. A singular plant with very bushy spi 
ariable in character. The perigynia are all empty Pye ar 
coh Il. Carex Liddoni Boott, var. incerta. (. adusta var. : 
gesta W. Boott, Bot. Calif. ii, 238.—Usually lower than the 
species (about 18 inches high), the culm much more slender: ” 
lea Gently proportionally longer (nearly as long as the 
orter (three- fourths inch or less long), much 
1ore dense: perigynium somewhat smaller, nerveless 
ty nearly so.—Summit Camp, California, Aedlogg’. 
o 
shade 
- 
C. Jamesoni Boott, var, gracilis. Differs from the 
nits much more slender and flexuose spikes, which 
er peduncled. ¢, Famesoni 2 Boott, Ill. 109, t. 33 
specimen figured and describe by Boott is trom nor 
South America. | refer here, with much uncertaint 
tw eae Se in southern Mexico in 1853 by Fre ed. 
ller, nos. i, 337 and 1,338. These specimens are Mm 
‘more plendee than aa figured by Boott, smaller (one ay 
3 half to t two feet high), leaves narrower, the spikes fewer an 
ither more slender and the perigy nium somewhat excurv: 
i Tger suite of (Specimens Is necessary for ‘a Fy de 
t.- 334.3 
ip part of 1.077, thé latter from Orizaba, are 
ameson ni 7, tt. 336 an 337 - It seems to me that the var. 
uld be referred to the type. 
13, Carex triceps Michx., 
hit Porter ¥ Olney, 
the type: ‘Whtsle p 
var. aati Porter in litt.— 
Exs sicc. fasc. i, no 28._-More slend 
lant, except the sheaths, sn 
x 89% es featey Li. or less long | wid 
‘ower one wo usually aliriipeddnclen - perigyni ; 
ly. smaller: ala especially of the staminate p 
mmonl] ieee less squarrose and not so sharply pointed 
7a Peanaylvania, southern New Jersey ands 
Distinguished from e h 
I. oni parent it most closely resembles, by its stra 
