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C. olivacea Liebm. Mex. Halv. 79 (1850), not Boott (1846). 
C. monticola Boeck]. Engler’s Bot. Jahrb. 1: 364 (1881), not Dewey 
1861). 
C. androgyna Bailey, Proc. Amer. Acad. 22: 101 (1886), not Balbis. 
Liebmann reports it from the Peak of Orizaba. 
CaREX oBLATA Bailey, var. luzuliformis, n. var.— Differs from the 
species in being much taller (two feet or more), with broader leaves 
and much larger spikes. 
Idaho, Oregon, California. It is 6210 of the California Geological Survey 
and 1426 of the Department of Agriculture Death Valley Expedition (Coville 
& Funston). In some cases I have confounded this with C. /uzulafolia W. 
Boott, but that species differs in its broader foliage, and particularly in its 
broader, papery, and more turgid perigynia. The perigynia of C. oblata and 
var. /uzuliformis are long and gradually tapering, hard and not at all 
inflated. ie 
L. H. Bairey, Cornell University. 
THE SYSTEMATIC POSITION OF THE GENUS MONOCLEA- 
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THE genus Monoclea, according to Schiffner,* contains one he y 
known species, Af. Forsteri Hook., and a second one, M. ae 
Leitgeb, which Schifiner thinks should probably be united with * 
Forsteri. The American form of the latter has been separated as M. 
Gottschet by Lindberg, but is not usually considered to be distinct : 
Monoclea Forsteri is apparently common throughout tropical ne 
ica, and during a visit to Jamaica in the summer of 1897 I met" 
plant repeatedly in the wet mountain ravines, and upon the my 
rocks along the margins of streams. In such situations the 
occurred in large masses and was very conspicuous. cue 
Hooker’s original description? I have not seen, but from gp: 
ence to this in Gottsche’s paper,’ it must be very noo pe 
was an evident confusion of the plant with Anthoceros and ein doubt: 
The locality from which the original plant came seems also to 
ful. i 
The first account of the plant which is at all complete !§ gt 
‘ ENGLER and PRANTL, Die natiirlichen Pflanzenfamilien gI-92: 56. 
* HOOKER, Musci exotici. London, 1820. 
3GoTTscHr, Ueber das Genus Monoclea. Bot. Zeit. 19° 
281-289. 1858. 
