APPENDIX. 377 
Scirpus maritimus, L.—Santa Barbara (104). 
FIMBRISTYLIS THERMALIS, Watson.—Hot springs, near Kernville, 
growing in water at 128° Fahr. Specimens frequently found with as many 
as seven spikes in an umbel (303). 
CarREX VULGARIS, Fries, var. HYPERBOREA, Boott. (C. hyperborea, 
Drej.)—4-8’ high, scabrous above and sharply angled; leaves 3” wide, 
erect, shorter than the culm. Male spikes 1-2; female spikes 3, the lowest 
long-peduncled and loosely flowered at base; perigynia ovate, nerveless, 
purple at top, ciliate at the entire orifice and on the upper margin, as long 
as, or shorter than the lanceolate purple scale; bracts of the lower female 
spike setaceous. Very scabrous, with large purple auricles—Kern River, 
9,800 feet elevation (371). 
GRAMINEZE. 
By Dr. GEORGE VASEY. 
VILFA DEPAUPERATA, Torr. (Watson’s Botany of 40th Parallel).—North 
Fork of Kern River, 1875 (377); apparently the same as Bolander’s No. 
6092 and Sporobolus nodosus, Nutt. 
VILFA DEPAUPERATA, Torr., var. FILIFORMIS, Watson.—Olanche Mount- 
ain, 9,400 feet altitude, 1875 (348). 
Aarostis EXARATA, Trin.—Head of Kern River, 1875 (231). : 
AGRosTIS EXARATA, Trin., var. MICROPHYLLA. (A. microphylla, Steud.)— 
Head of Kern River, 1875 (249). It seems difficult to regard this as only 
a variety. 
Agrostis varians, Trin.—Collected along Kern River, 1875 (323). 
Meuica mperrecta, Trin.—Santa Barbara, 1875 (148). The var. 
SESQUIFLORA, Bol. 
Guycrria pauctrLora, Presl (Watson’s Bot. of 40th Parallel, Synopsis 
Flora of Colorado).—Utah, 1871 and 1872; Kern River, 1875 (385). 
Brizopyrum spicatum, Hook., var. srricTuM.—1875 (427). 
Exymus Srrantoy, Schultz (Watson’s Bot. 40th Parallel, Synopsis 
Flora of Colorado).—Mount Whitney, 1875 (403). 
E.ymus conpensatus, Presl (Watson’s Bot. 4Uth Parallel, Synopsis 
Flora of Colorado).—Santa Barbara, 1875 (134). 
