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forms may pass. It also approaches forms of C. cephaloidea. 
', Hoodii, as 1 understand the species, is characterized by its 
much stouter culms, its much heavier, browner and more com- 
pact heads which are made up of many-flowered, chaffy, linear 
or ovate more or less pointed spikes, and more upright perigynl@ 
which are covered by the large scales. The brown-and-green 
and truncate characters of the spikes, and the spreading, green- 
ish perigynia of the var. confiza are not found in C. Hoodit in 
the few specimens I have seen of that species. C. Hoodii oceurs 
in California, Oregon and Kamtschatka. 
was extended to “California, Trubner [Thurber ?]. One 
Douglas, Nuttall, Hinds.” The Carices collected by Dr. J. *® 
Boott, and his determinations, with the other determinations ee 
Reports. (. decidua is there given as occurring in “ Mountains 
d’s 
A part of the specimens are unripe; the remalme™ — 
data, W. Boott. The specimens a the other sheehy 
from “ Sierra Nevada (Duffield’s Ranch),” are entirely too young 
to be determined. Evide i ; i re heed 
mixed. If the collection contained ©, decidua it “ 
fo res epee = A i 
Pag os rs Herb. Bentham,” and’ labelled C. Cot i“ 
ay, 1 ‘ , : +3 ‘ ie BPC a ae 
snater' ] : Tir abs dt (Figs. 1-5). ane Cdeides 
given by Dr. Boott,and they are no doubt a part of the speetmen® a 
ferred to that Species in the Illustrations. These spect ae : 
the only ones I know from North America, I have an! $ ; 
