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drical, subremote, the lowest peduncled; perigynia shining, pale or purple, 
oblong-ovate, tapering to a cylindrical bidentate beak, nerveless or faintly 
nerved, twice the length of the scale; scales purple, with pale midnerve, 
male oblong obtuse, female ovate acute; bracts leafy, clasping, longer than 
the culm, evaginate, or occasionally there is below the fertile spikes an 
empty bract with a vagina 4-1’ long; stigmas 2-3 (1071-1072, 1070). 
Drejer, Revista Critica, p. 57, says that the Greenland specimens of pulla 
are two or three times larger and more robust than Iceland ones, occurring 
with 1-3 approximate or very remote round ovate, acutish or elongated 
cylindrical, obtuse female spikes; with scales obtuse, shorter, or acute, 
longer than the perigynia; stigmas 2-3. In the Linn. Trans., Dr. Boott 
states that Lapland specimens in the Linnean Herbarium and the descrip- 
tion in the Flora Lapponica prove C. pulla, Good., to be the original C. saa- 
atilis of Linnzeus, but that afterwards Linneus in the Flora Suecica and 
the Species Plantarum confounded it with C. rigida, Good. which has since 
with European botanists generally borne the name of sazatilis. Hooker 
and Arnott in the British Fl. consider C. Grahamii to be a variety of the 
original sazatilis of Linnzus. Anderson, Cyper. Scand., names it C. vesica- 
ria, var. dichroa. Dr. Boott finally siicmeag it to be the var. alpigena, Fries, 
of vesicaria. 
The following, belonging to the vesicaria group, with immature fruit, 
do not admit of accurate determination or full description. 
Carex sp.?, probably new, 2° and over high, pale, slender, smooth 
and spongy at bottom, slightly scabrous above; leaves 3” wide, much 
exceeding the culm; male spikes 3-4, 1g inches long, contiguous (in one 
specimen male spikes 4, distant, occupying a space of 4’ on the culm) ; 
female spikes 3-4, oblong cylindrical, 1-2’ long, 3’ wide, 1-3’ below the 
male, and 1-54 apart, the uppermost sometimes staminate at top and at 
- bottom, the lowest on short peduncles; bract of lower male spike filiform, 
exceeding its spikelet; bracts of female spikes evaginate, clasping con- 
duplicate at base, much longer than the culm; perigynia (very young) 
widely spreading, ovate, with a rather long, cylindrical, sharply toothed 
beak, conspicuously nerved; scale 3-nerved, purple, with pale midnerve, 
the male oblong-linear, obtuse, female lanceolate or lanceolate-ovate, taper- 
