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referred here by Drejer (Rev, Crit. Car. Bor. 37, 38) is C, vul- 

 garis. Fries (v. s. Hb. Havn., and teste Lange). Lange, FL 

 Groen. i. 144, remarks, *' Neque C, striata^ Good., neque vera 

 C. ccEspitosdy L. (C Pacijica^ Drej.) in Groenlandia unquam lectae 

 sunt." The spechiiens referred to this species by Boott are too 

 young for determination, although it is certain that they are not 

 C. ccBspitosa^ L. Boeckeler says that the species occurs in British 

 America, but the remark is without foundation. Last autumn I 

 made the acquaintance of C, c<xspitosa, growing in Norway; 

 there are no North American plants, which I have seen, that can 

 be referred to any form of this species. 



Van ANOMALA. 



Very slender (18 in. to 30 in. high), the culm and leaves 

 very rough; leaves very numerous and long and narrow; spikes 

 three to five, the lowest one or tw^o on long and very slender pedun- 

 cles, very narrow and thinly-flowered at base (one to two inches 

 long), greenish or brownish (never purple-black as in the species 

 and the last variety), the terminal one often pistillate at the top 

 or throughout; perigynium firmer in texture, long and often very 

 slender, granular and prominently nerved, green or greenish-yel- 

 low, longer than the narrow and brown obtuse scale. Oregon: 

 Cascade Mountains, Howell (distr, as C, lenticitlaris, Michx.) ; 

 Lost Lake, Henderson, 1786. Often has the aspect of C. prastna^ 

 Wahl. 



24. — Carex Kelloggit, W. Boott, Bot. Cal. ii. 240(1880), v. s. 



Hb. Gray. 



C. acttta^ L. var. pallida, Boott, 111. 166, v. s. 



C vulgaris. Fries, v;xx. juncella, OIney, in part, and excl. syn., 



Bot. King's Rep. 368 (1871); Bailey, Coulter's Man. 

 386(1885). 



This plant is not the C. vulgaris v^iv. juneella o{ ¥x\cs, authen- 

 tic specimens of which I have seen. Neither is it certain that 

 our plant merits specific rank, although for the present it maybe 

 thus treated. It appears to be nearer C. lenticularis, Michx., than 

 C. vulgaris, and is probably to be regarded as the western form 

 of the former. The profuse and long-pointed leaves and essen- 

 tial characters of the perigynium point strongly to such a re- 

 lationship. On the other hand, it is distinguished from C. leu- 

 ticiilaris by its greenness, scattered spikes, always wholly stami- 

 nate terminal spike, and longer pointed and stronger nerved green 



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