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BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
form Dr. Dewey founded his C. Vaseyi. It is not a hybrid. C. 
7 in 
monile is referred to ©. vesicaria by Otto von Beckeler i 
Linnea, 41, p. 320. 
: 2 -reticu- 
base, much exceeding the culm, conspicuously nodulose ie 
lated ;_pistillate spikes two to six, more or less remote, 
long, long-cylindrical or terete (1-7 in. long), thick and com- 
actly dewered (sometimes oat, flowered at the base), a 
€ top; perigynium ellipsoid or globose-ovoid, usu * 
gradually tapering into a short beak, broader and commo 
onger than the very acute o : : Bi 
Sartwell, is smaller jn all its parts, with spikes an inch Ode 
long.—Generally distributed in ewampy places throughout 
Northern United State 
a. 
j : in 
8, entirely across the continent, an 
British Amerie 
abruptly beaked, longer i 
the normally muticous scale.-—Colorado and northward, evi 
ly throughout Western British America. The typical form 
ommon, and perhaps it does not occur within the limits ie 
the United States, Specimens from our Rocky Mountain regio 
trata, Withering, for ‘this Species and proposes C. Michauwiand 
for the C. rostrata of Michanx. 
John Williamson.—Obituary, 
BY GEO. E. DAVENPORT. 
In the Botantcar Gaz 
attention to q hand-bo., 
ETTE for June, 1878, the writer called 
the course of p 
ok on the “ Ferns of Kentucky,” hee 
reparation, and asked for it a favorable reception. 
