486 TRANS. OF THE ACAD. OF SCIENCE. 
of streamlets in Yosemite Valley, 4,000 feet high, Bolander, 
Cal. St. Surv. 6033, Hb. n. 99; mountains near Carson City, 
Neva da, C. L. Anderson. — Allied to the last, but readily 
not ancipitous, shorter than the stem; 1-3 heads, 6-7 lines 
in diameter; flowers 24 lines long, pale or whitish-green, 
shining; sepals very obtuse, often mucronate or cuspidate, 
with broad membranaceous margins; stamens scarcely short- 
met 
twice to four times as long as filan ment, much exceeding the 
ovary; style often twice as long as the ovary ; capsule, in the 
only fruiting specimen which I could examine, much shorter 
than the sepals; seeds (immature) very similar to those of 
the last. species, 0.32 line long and more than half as wide, 
7-8 ribs visible on the side, reticulation distinct, but, as yet 
at least, no transverse lineolation visible. 
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During the two years which have passed since the first 
part of this paper, pp. 424-458, was published, the attention 
of many botanical friends has been directed to our Junei, and 
their exertions have set me to add several new species 
several additions Pei = ectio oregoing pages 
have already acknowledged the liberality < Professors Roe- 
d Decaisne, wh ha ee d me to study the Junci 
ret the single J. Pyle, La Harpe, from the “little island 
of Saint-Pierre-de-Miquelon, near N ewfoundland,” remains 
unknown to me. 
The request for assistance in forming wa Herbarium sete 
corum Boreali- icanorum Normale 424) has b 
y onded to by twenty-three seca who sci 
sent sets of 39. plants, to be distributed by me among the 
great standard herbaria of this country and of aes he 
among the contributing botanists themselves. They 
ted in these pages as Herb. norm. or Hb. n. The ae 
