APPENDIX. 377 



Soikpus makitimus, 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). 



Carex vulgaris,- Fries, var. hyperborea, Boott. (C. hypcrhorea, 

 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). 



GRAMINE^. 

 By Dr. George Vasey. 



Vilfa depatjperata, Torr. (Watson's Botany of 40th Parallel). — North 

 Fork of Kern River, 1875 (377) ; apparently the same as Bolander's No. 

 60f ! 2 and Spordbolus nodosas, Nutt. 



Vilfa depauperata, Torr., var. filiformis, Watson. — Olanche Mount- 

 ain, 9,400 feet altitude, 1875 (348). 



Agrostis exarata, Trin. — Head of Kern River, 1875 (231). 



Agrostis exarata, Trin., var. microphylla. (A. microphjlla, 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). 



Melica imperfecta, Trin. — Santa Barbara, 1875 (148). The var. 



SESQUIFLORA, Bol. 



Glyceria pauciflora, Presl (Watson's Bot. of 40th Parallel, Synopsis 

 Flora of Colorado).— Utah, 1871 and 1872; Kern River, 1875 (385). 



Brizopyrum spicatum, Hook., var. strictum. — 1875 (427). 



Elymus Sitanion, Schultz (Watson's Bot. 40th Parallel, Synopsis 

 Flora of Colorado).— Mount Whitney, 1875 (403). 



Elymus condensatus, Presl (Watson's Bot. 4(Jth Parallel, Synopsis 

 Flora of Colorado).— Santa Barbara, 1875 (134). 



