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more remote; stigmas two; perigynium ovate-oblong or obovate, very short rostrate, 
entire at the orifice, nerved and lens-like, scarcely stiped ; pistillate scale oblong, obtuse, pale 
on the keel, and near twice as long as the fruit. 
Carex BARBARA (Dewey): spicis staminiferis terminalibus 2 raro 3 erectis cylindraceis, 4. ~ 
suprema longa pedunculata, inferiore breviore illi contigua, infima sub-elongata ; pistilliferis 3^ ^'^ 
longo-cylindraceis, 2-4-uncialibus gracilibus, superiore apice staminifera brevi-bracteata erecta, 
inferioribus longioribus subremotis subrecurvis basi laxifloris brevi-vaginatis foliaceo-bracteatis, 
omnibus nigro-purpureis; perigyniis distigmaticis oblongis obovatis apiculatis ore integris, 
squama oblongo obovata dorso pallida mucronata brevioribus; culmo erecto glauco longe. 
foliato vaginatoque. Banks of streams, Santa Barbara, California; Parry.—Culm 16-20 
inches high, erect, with long leaves towards the base and long leafy bracts above, glaucous ; 
spikes 3—6, cylindric, slender, blackish-purple; staminate terminal 1-3, commonly 2, the upper 
nearly two inches long, pedunculate, the lower sessile, contiguous and shorter, the third longer 
than the last and more remote ; pistillate 3, long-cylindric, 2-4 inches long, slender ; the upper 
staminate at the apex, short-bracteate, erect; the lower longer, subremote, subrecurved, loose- 
flowered at the base and short-sheathed ; perigynium oblong-obovate, short-rostrate, entire at 
the orifice, stigmas 2, pistillate scale oblong-obovate, on the back pale, and the nerve extended 
into a mucronate point, making the end of the scale sometimes emarginate. "The locality gives 
the name of the species. 
Carex Вонотти (Dew.): spicis staminiferis terminalibus 8-5 erectis nigro-rubris approximatis “` 
prope geminatis cylindraceis, superiore longa 3-unciali medio inflata, inferioribus brevio- | 
ribus sessilibus contiguis vel infma remotiore et interdum geminata ; pistilliferis 8 raro 4 
perlongo-cylindraceis gracillimis 6-8 uncialibus perlaxifloris inæqualiter pedunculatis, inferi- 
oribus longe pedunculatis folioso-bracteatis basi vaginatis vix fructiferis vel abortivis, cum 
squamis oblongis arctis obovatis vix acutis; perigynio carente vel nimis immaturo; culmis 
superne scabris subprostratis ? cum foliis bracteisque viridi glaucis. Banks of rivers, Santa 
Barbara, California ; Parry.—This species has very variable spikes and form, as the description 
shows ; spikes 6-8, cylindric; sometimes staminate 5 and pistillate 3, sometimes 4 and 3, some- 
times 3 and 3, or again 3 and 4, most of which are long, and some very long; the staminate 
upper 3 are approximate, so as to be almost geminate, the highest 3 inches long and ventricose 
in the middle, and the lower a little remote and shorter, often one lower and a little remote and 
rather long, and on one specimen geminate and one quite short; the staminate scale oblong, 
obovate, dark red and pale on the back ; pistillate spikes 3, rarely 4, very long and slender, 4-8 
inches, very loose-flowered, unequally pedunculate, the lowest long pedunculate and long 
vaginate, all leafy bracteate, with scarcely the rudiment of fruit, or abortive, and with a 
narrow, oblong, obovate scale scarcely acute; perigynium wanting, or too immature; culm 
triquetrous above and scabrous, with glaucous leaves and bracts. This species has some affinity 
to C. Darwinii, Boott. in Trans. Linn. 20, р. 120, but the numerous differences far separate the 
two. There may have been some crushing of the culms to account for their prostrate appear- 
ance, without which, at least, the pistillate spikes must have been long-retrocurved as in C. 
pendula, Gooden. 
CAREX PHYLLOSTACHYS, Meyer, Trans. Acad. St. Petersb. Collected in California by Dr. 
