BOTANICAL €542R EPR 
Vou. IX. AUGUST, 1884. No. 8. 
Notes on Carex.—I. 
BY L. H. BAILEY, JR. 
NEW SPECIES AND VARIETIES. 
“Carex Hariiana, n. sp. Culm a foot high, smooth or near- 
ly so, very leafy; bracts leaf-like, with thin white auricles, the 
nerved perigynium with a stout, white, toothless beak. It is 
near C. jiliformis, L. The specimen in the Gray Herbarium is 
humbered 606, and, evidently by some mistake, labelled C. am- 
p Uifolia, Boott, in Olney’s handwriting. 
, ,~. RIGENS, n. sp. Stoloniferous; rough throughout; culms 
, 12" high, stiff, mostly longer than the stiff, rough, long-point- 
ed leaves, their bases surrounded by the fibrous remains of leaves ; 
ower bract green, nearly as long as the culm, the upper awl- 
Pointed, little longer or shorter than the spikes; staminate spike 
sal inch long, shortly peduncled; pistillate spikes about three, 
Sessile, not aggregated, one-fourth inch or less long or some- 
le *s prolonged and staminate at the top; perigynium obovoid, 
ites i ‘ag » Many-nerved, very gradually contracted into a 
tooth wit gradually narrowed into a short entire or slightly 
dian: eak, mostly shorter than the very acute thin scale ; 
ey, obovoid. ©, varia, Muhl., var. Arizonica, Bailey, Carex 
—Tanner’s Cafion, 8. Arizona (Lemmon, 2904), San Luis 
