8 The Botanical Gazette. [January, 
and very soft swamp, in company with Saururus cernuus, 
Dianthera ovata, and Proserpinaca palustris.” A. A. Heller 
(no. 989), June, 1893. 
v1o. CAREX QUADRIFIDA Bailey, var. caeca, n. 
Smaller than the species (10-16" tall); heads Mare dull 
dark brown; spikes four or five, the lowest one sometimes an © 
inch remote, a half inch or less long, mostly small and slen- 
der; perigynium smaller than in the species; scales equaling 
or exceeding the perigynium, broad, not sharp-pointed; culms © 
rather slender, considerably exceeding the broadish, long- 
pointed leaves.—Tanquitz Meadow, San Jacinto mountains, 
San Diego county, California, 8,000" altitude. H. E. Hasse, © 
July 1892. Perhaps a good species 
/ 11. CAREX NEBRASKENSIS Dewey, var. ultriformis, n. 
var,—More like the var. previa Bailey (C. Fameszz Torr.) 
than the type of C. Nebraskensis, but differs in the habitually 
much narrower leaves (#," or less wide), and particularly in 
the short, often almost slaliting spikes (which are a or less — 
long). —Ritzville, Adams County, Washington, 7 rp * altitude. 
J. H. Sandberg and J. B. Leiberg (no. 194), 1 
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12. CAREX FETA Bailey, var. multa, n. var. igo Po feta ) 
generally has a long and loose head of well separated and — 
more or less rounded or cylindrical-conical spikes, but the 
roposed variety mu/ta has less defined and looser or more — 
chaff-like spikes in a glomerate and often compound head. 
This variety is to C. feta what var. cumulata is to the east- 
ern C. albolutescens. I have it from San Jacinto Mountains, 
San Diego County, California, and from two stations in Ore- 
gon. 
or RETEST TS Ne 
13. Carex prasina x crinita, n. hyb.—A well marked — 
hybrid of these two species has been found at Summit, 
Jersey, by J. R. Churchill, and in Summers County, West 
Virginia, by C. F. Millspaugh. Judge Churchill’s specimens 
have more the aspect of C. prasina, whilst Dr. Millspaugh's 
seem rather more to resemble C. crinita, especially in the 
foliage. Both collections lack the robustness of C. crinita. 
14. Carex scabrata x crinita ene in herb., was collected — 
in 1891, on Mt. Clinton, N. H., by Dr. Geo. G. Kennedy. 
It seems to be a very good nnerniediate between the two spe — 
cies, although apparently losing something in size and vigor. 
Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 
