318 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
seales (Fig. 4) approach var. avristata. e shape and appear- 
ance of the.perigynium is decidedly like var. aristata. This plant 
is robust, and has much more the appearance of the variety than 
of the species. It might with equal propriety be referred to 
either. The sheaths are smooth, or nearly so. The specimen 
seales and awl-toothed perigynia, but the perigynia are airy. 
This specimen is from Oregon. Fig. 17 represents pretty good 
AREX compacta R. Br., Sill. Journ., 1835, p. 39. Prof 
John Macoun sends me this interesting arctic species from Not- 
tingham Island, Hudson’s Straits. (Fig 19.) The species 
closely allied to C. sazatilis L., but differs in habit and especially 
in the closely packed, conspicuously squarrose and much m 
perigynia, From a study of authentic specimens in Herb. oe 
I am prepared to say that this species and C. membranacea Hook-, 
are the same. My friend, Arthur Bennett, of Croyden, Eng. 
sends this note: 
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C. ampullacea var. borealis Lange. 
