B TANICAL GAZETTE. 
Vou. X. JANUARY 1885. : No. 1. 
Notes on Carex,—Ill. 
(WITH PLATE.) 
BY L. H. BAILEY, JR. 
“1. CAREX NERVINA, n. sp., connecting the groups Fwtide 
and Vulpine : Culm flat and weak, smooth, striate, about 18 
Inches high from a woody root; leaves ample, broad, striate 
scale; achenium oval (Figs. 6 and 7).—Summit Camp, Cali- 
and strongly nerved perigynium. The perigynium is somewhat 
like that of C. sey iM the specimens I have examined the 
spikes, of which the head is composed, are compound at the base, 
spike is staminate, and the two or three pistillate flowers appear 
48 if borne in the center of a continuous staminate spike. 
age: AREX MURICATA, L., var. CONFIXA, 0. var. Dif- 
+ "ig the usual forms of the species in its very slender and 
peg prolonged culms (which are 1 to 23 feet high), and its 
: *' or oblong continuous head of spikes, and in an habitually 
arrower perigynium.—C. Hoodii of authors, not Boott. N. 
oming (C. OC. Parry, 281); Wahsatch Mts., Utah (Watson 
