210 ON THE GEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY 
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LIST OF NEBRASKA CARICES. 
BY PROF. CHESTER DEWEY. 
vulpina, Linn, <A well-known European species, first found in Ohio in our country 
some years since, abounds in Nebraska of large size: cannot be confounded with 
C. stipata, above Fort Pierre. 
vulpinoidea, Michx. 
multiflora, Michx. Fort Pierre. 
. stipata, Muhl. Little Sioux River. 
' vosea, Schk. Southern Nebraska. 
var. radiata, Dew. Southern Nebraska, 
. setacea, Dew. Southern Nebraska. 
. teretiuscula, Good. Southern Nebraska. 
. Muhlenbergi, Schk. Missouri, below Fort Pierre. 
. cephaloidea, Dew. Near Fort Leavenworth. 
. Hookeriana, Dew. Missouri, below Fort Pierre. 
stenophylla, Wahl. Upper Missouri. Well known in the Tyrol; found also in the 
Rocky Mountains, and in Nebraska, Dr. Hayden. First published as American also 
by Dr. Boott. 
Douglasi, Boott. West of Fort Pierre. From N. W. Coast and Rocky Mountains, 
first described by Dr. Boott; since found so far south, like O. Richardsoni in its wide 
diffusion. 
. Nuttall, Dew. Yellowstone river. This species, found by Mr. Nuttall in his 
botanic explorations on the Rocky Mountains, had escaped my memory, and I gave 
to the specimens from Nebraska the name of my young friend, Mr. Meek, in Silli- 
man’s Journal. Its spikes are closely aggregated into a head; its fruit small, ovate 
and short-lanceolate, and much shorter and narrower than the broad long-lanceolate 
scale; culm 3 to 4 inches high, with almost setaceous leaves. These characters 
separate it from the next preceding species. 
marcida, Boott. Abundant over Southern Nebraska. 
. cristata, Schw. Little Sioux river. 
straminea, Willd. Above Fort Pierre. 
var. minor, Dew. Above Fort Pierre. 
scirpoides, Schk. Near Fort Leavenworth. 
. mirabilis, Dew. Common. 
