1896, ] Notes on Carex. 5 
between Carex and Uncinia has upset this poor little plant 
from the days of Wahlenberg and Sprengel. The technical 
character of the racheola appearing in the perigynium seems 
to put it into Uncinia, but many of our common carices de- 
velop racheola occasionally. Uncinia is now accepted rather 
more upon habit than upon this one technical character, and 
nearly all the later treatment of the genus refers the plant in 
question to Carex. 
/2. Carex Hassei, n. sp.—Pacific coast representative of 
the type of C. /axiffora: differs in paler color and much nar- 
rower leaves; and especially in the perigynium, which is about 
as long as the scale, not trigonous nor beaked, the point only 
slightly bent, not striate or stipe-like at base, the walls thin 
and soft; scale broad, the point scarcely cusp-like; bracts 
rarely leaf-like.—In a meadow, San Antonio Cafion, San 
Bernardino range, California, 4, 500° altitude. H. E. Hasse, 
July, 1894. 
“3. Carex multimoda, n. sp.—(C. festiva var. gracilis, au- 
thors). Carex festiva, the Rocky Mountain and Pacific coast 
representative of Carex straminea, is one of the most perplex- 
ing carices in the American flora. A good part of the confu- 
sion arises, however, from the fact that the species is made 
to comprise many unlike forms. If two or three of these out- 
lying forms were to be set off as specifically distinct, the spe- 
cies would be much easier to understand. The plants com- 
monly referred to var. gracilis, which I now erect into a 
Species, are very slender, with narrow leaves (lacking wholly 
the stiff aspect of C. festiva), the spikes small and mostly 
massed into a little tawny or dark head; points of the narrow 
Perigynia generally conspicuously spreading.—Seems to be 
distributed from the Sierras of California to British Columbia. 
More closely allied to C. subfusca W. Boott, than to C. fes- 
“iva. C. subfusca is more straminea-like, with more distinct 
roundish spikes, and a stiffer habit. 
v4. Carex Idahoa, n. sp.—A dioecious member of the Mi- 
Crorhynche, but with three stigmas, and not closely related 
to any carex which I know; possibly C. salina is its nearest 
kin. Tall and slender (about 2" high), the culm exceeding 
the flat rather short leaves; spikes generally three on both stam- 
ate and pistillate culms (sometimes one on staminate culm), 
all close together but the terminal one twice longer than 
the others (about an inch long, and cylindrical), the lowest 
