1892, ] Notes on Carex. 151 
collector. Since the determination of the species, James L. 
Bennett, of Brown University, writes that the plant was col- 
lected by Wheeler’s Expedition West of the 1ooth Meridian. 
In Wm. Boott’s report upon the carices of this expedition 
there is nothing to suggest this species. 
C. Pringlei n. sp.—One of the PALUDOSA, not closely al- 
lied to any American species, but coming nearest, perhaps, 
to C. riparia: tall, stiff and stout (four to six feet high), 
pale throughout, the culm obtusely angled and smooth; leaves 
stiff and long, rough on the edges and sometimes on the 
keel; staminate spikes three or four, an inch or two long or 
the terminal one twice longer, cylindrical, scarcely stalked, 
the bases enveloped by a scarious bract, the scales of the 
spikes linear and membranaceous with a somewhat expanded 
tip which is more or less jagged and provided with a short 
cusp; pistillate spikes three to six, all approximated or aggre- 
§ated, heavy and densely flowered, two to four inches long, 
Sessile and erect, their bases subtended by an expanded and 
long-pointed bract; perigynium long-linear-elliptic or linear- 
ovate (about four lines long), thin and flat, the small and 
Stipitate three-angled achenium lying nearly in the center, 
faintly few nerved, beakless, the orifice entire or slightly sul- 
cate, the lower portion smooth, but the upper part sparsely 
hairy, about the length of or slightly shorter than the strong- 
Pointed or even awned rough scale.—A coarse bushy-spiked 
Meadows 
Potosi (Hacienda de Angustura), Mexico, by C. G. Pringle 
(No. 3801), 
like asp. is a tall and very stiff species with a pagers 
British Ac, and dry appearance. It was collected at File Hills, 
“Re “ Y 4, 1879, and at Moose Jaw, about thirty miles 
avored for a number of years to refer this perplex- 
tia to Some of its neighboring species, but the pana 
Suite “4 unsatisfactory. Its characters are constant in a goo 
*Pecimens, and it appears to merit specific distinction. 
