BOTANICAL GAZETTE: 
Vou. IX. SEPTEMBER, 1884, No. 9. 
Notes on Carex.—II. 
BY L. H, BAILEY, JR. 
CAREX STRICTA, Lamarek. 
One of the most remarkable instances of the general accept- 
ance of an early error occurs in the case of Carew stricta. Among 
all caricographers, so far as 1 know (unless it be Carey in Gray’s 
Manual), C. stricta of Goodenough (Obs. on Brit. Carices, p. 196) 
has held the preference over C. stricta of Lamarck (Dict. de Bot. 
, 887) on account of its supposed priority. Dr. Boott did not 
confidently adopt Lamarck’s name as a synonym of his C. an- 
gustata ; nor was it necessary that he should pay much attention 
to the name, as he evidently regarded it as more recent than C. 
. Sir J. E. Smith, in Rees’ Cyclopedia, taking 
°odenough’s name to be the older, proposed C. Virginiana for 
the plant of Lamarck. Otto von Boeckeler, in Linnea, 40, 430, 
adopts Smith’s name. Goodenough’s name was made in 1792; 
arck’s ip 1789. . stricta, Lam., therefore becomes the 
Proper name of the American plant, and the C. stricta of Gooden., 
et Uropean species, must bear some other name. ere can be 
no doubt.'that Lamarck meant to describe the same plant in- 
tended in Dr. Boott’s C. angustata. His characters can apply 
_ 10 20 other Virginian species, unless it be C. aperta, Boott, which 
a Separated from the original species at a later day. Sir J. E. 
ont His account of the species, from the American edition 
“O Cy clopedia, vii, species 100, is as follows: : 
erect. + Virginiana (C. stricta, Lam.). ‘Female spikes two, sessile, 
ae ot male flowers at the top; male terminal, remote ; stem 
anguls Stem about a foot high, slender, compressed above, tri- 
gular below, rough. Leaves as long as the stem, near two lines 
