118 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
Potosi, Mexico (Schaffner, 547, Parry and Palmer, 977) _ De 
scribed without name by W. Boott in Proc. Am. Acad. X VIII, 
172. The species resembles C. varia in aspect, but it differs 
widely in its stoloniferous habit, its seabro-puberulence, its shred- 
ded lower sheaths, stiff culms, large staminate spike, and espe- 
cially in the greater size, more numerous and stronger nerves, 
and very different shape of the perigynium. 
der), Big Trees (1635 and 2306 Brewer), Plumas Co. (Mrs. 
Ames), Duffield’s Ranch (J. M. Bigelow); Alamanden, S. W 
foliaceous bracts, its one or two pistillate flowers, and the much 
shorter, obtusely angled perigynium, which is only one-nerved 
rough culms, only one or two female flowers, and the bracts er x 
foliaceous. In the specimens of Parry and Thurber he foun 
foliaceous, The Table 105 represents the culms of C. multicaulis 
with the enlarged fruit of C Geyeri. 
