BOTANICAL GAZETTE. . 121 
plant, from which Linneus’ character was first drawn, is the C. 
pulla of Goodenough, to which he restored the name saxatilis. 
Finally, however, he regarded the species as too near C. vesicaria. 
* *Staminate spikes two or more; _pistillate spikes normally 
long, spreading or drooping; stigmas three; plants large. 
t Perigynium conspicuously turgid, ascending at maturity. 
C. vesrcarta, Linn., Sp. Pl. 979. Stoloniferous; culms 
* stuut, 1°-23° high, scabrous, shorter than the upper leaves; 
leaves flat, 2-3 lines broad; _pistillate spikes two to four, thick 
(4-8 lines in diameter), the upper sessile, the lower on weak or 
nodding peduncles; perigynium ovate-lanceolate, one-third or 
less as broad as long, gradually tapering into a slender beak, 12- 
or more nerved, longer than the inconspicuous seale.—California 
and Oregon, probably in Utah. (No. 1270, King’s Survey, from 
the Uintas, is immature, but is probably to be referred here. 
Var. Masor, Boott. Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. II. 221. Mostly 
larger; perigynium long lanceolate, greenish or rusty, many- 
nerved, much longer than the small scale. Var. lanceolata, Olney. 
—Tomales Bay, California, and northward to British Columbia 
near the coast. 
Var.? oprusisquamts, Bailey, Carex Cat. Spikes short, 
sessile or nearly so; perigynium broadly ovate or ovoid, mostly 
purplish, rather abruptly contracted into a short, nearly entire 
eak, longer than the broad, purple, white-margined, obtuse 
scale. Var. Y. W. Boott, Bot. Calif. II. 252.—Soda Springs, 
Head of Tuolumne River, California. (Brewer, 1781. 
The typical C. vesicaria with light straw-colored, about 12- 
nerved perigynium and closely-flowered spikes, is apparently 
rare in this country. Var. major differs widely from the species 
im aspect, but is connected with it by intermediate forms. Var. 
obtusisquamis strongly resembles C. monile, to which it may be- 
long, and in the occasional occurrence of two stigmas, and the 
short, sessile, often colored spikes, it approaches C. sazatilis. 
C. Monte, Tuckm., Enum. Method. 20. Culms usually more 
slender, leaves a little narrower; spikes more slender; perigy- 
Mum subglobose, much inflated towards the base, one-half or 
More as broad as long, abruptly short-beaked, 10- or less nerv q, 
: Vaseyi, Dewey, Sill. Journ., See. Ser. 29, 347.—Ostrander 's 
Meadow, California (Bolander, 6211), Colorado (Vasey, 584*.), 
and throughout the Northern United States east of the Missis- 
S'ppi to Subarctic British America. Dr. Boott, in his Illustr. 1. 
28, speaks of a form of C. monile with a rough beak. Upon this 
