152 The Botanical Gazette. [May, 
C. Montanensis n. sp.—Belongs to the RIGID and is 
allied to C. Tolmiet, although it has much the habit of the 
PENDULIN# (as C. Magellanica): a foot or a foot and a half 
high, in tough clumps, the culms weak at the top and 
mostly nodding, somewhat overtoping the flat and rather soft 
narrow (14 to 3 lines wide) leaves; staminate spike single, 
about a halfinch or less long, ovate or ovate elliptic, brown- 
purple, on a short and weak stalk, the scales thin and mostly 
blunt; pistillate spikes three to five, borne at the top of the 
culm and drooping or nodding on slender stalks, from one-half 
to three-fourths of an inch long, dark colored, the lowest bract 
leafy and about equalling the culm; perigynium ovate, soft, 
nerveless (entirely. lacking in the granulated character of C. 
Magellanica and its allies), terminated by a short and very 
slightly toothed beak about the length of but broader than 
the black-purple blunt scale; stigmas two or three.—Montana, 
Upper Marais Pass, W. M. Canby, Aug. 2, 1883 (no- 350) 
and along subalpine streams, Park. County, Frank Tweedy, 
Aug. 5, 1887. Also on mountain slopes, Kootanie Pass, 
Rocky Mountains of British America, John Macoun, Aug: % 
1883. Ihave at different times referred this plant to b 
atrata var. ovata and C. Tolmiet. : 
: n. sp. (C. atrata var. discolor Bailey).— This 
beautiful plant appears to have no immediate connection with 
atrata, and when I first referred it to a variety ° 
species I thought that ‘it is not improbable that it is SP 
longer than the purple sharp pointed scale. — Moana” 
Colorado, Utah, and Arizona. 
