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Carex galbana, n. sp.— Related to C. ¢riceps Michx.: a weak plant, 
vith slender curving culms a few inches to a foot long, much overtop- 
_ png the short flattish leaves: spikes two or three, small (half inch 
wless long), aggregate, staminate below, the bracts not prominent or 
aly: perigynium trigonous-turbinate, greenish and glabrous, strongly 
_ fernerved, the beak scarcely any, and orifice entire: scale thin and 
townish, blunt, narrower and shorter than the perigynium. 
___ Differs from C. triceps and its varieties in its very different habit, glabrous 
iolage (leaves very sparsely ciliate on the edges near the base), and the 
absence of leafy bracts.— Sierra de las Cruces, 10,000 feet, State of Mexico, 
Pringle 7083. 1896. 
Carex irrasa, n. sp.—(C. Douglasii Boott var.? /axiflora Bailey, 
Men. Torr. Bot. Club 1: 20.) 
Aside from the original specimens collected by Williams near Utica, 
: a I now have the plant from Big Lost river, Idaho (Henderson 36098). 
' — have little in common with C. Douglasii, to which | provisionally 
3 mieed it, being distinguished by its open brown simpler head and looser- 
_ Nae spikes, taller and more slender habit, often rough-angled perigy- 
“am, and shorter styles. 
‘ a et, : sp.—Allied to C. acutina Bailey and c stricta 
. iid Bailey, but distinguished from all members of this 
27 its thin and turgid perigynia and spreading-pointed black 
tet bios and stout, 12 to 18 inches high, the culms overtopping 
; Re the to: Sag leaves : pistillate spikes one to three, approximate 
 Wihg, the - the culm, varying from a half inch to an inchand a half 
4 coi °% one or two very short-stalked and subtended by eathet 
al] and ‘ ay most of them with astaminate apex : perigyune 
Sort “ty . ular or turbinate, very abruptly contracted in @ very 
4 eak, nerveless except on the angles, turgid or inflated, 
: Han the black-brown pointed spreading scale. 
: Gaar* Lake, British Columbia (Macoun); near Portland, Oregon 
s Lake Waha, Nez Perces county, Idaho (/e//er 3400). 
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he, ‘ Pringle collected the plant at an altitude of gooo to 1. 
