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6^. pullay Gray, Man. 5th ed. 602 (1867), v. s. 



C. ptdla, var. (?) miliar is, Gray, 1. c, v. s. 



C. miliaris, van, OIney, Exsicc. fasc. v. No. 17 (1871), v. s. 



and No. 18, probably. 



Taller and mostly stouter than the species \ staminate spikes 

 two to three, mostly long-peduncled ; pistillate spikes one or two, 

 the upper sessile, the lower short-pcduncled, often staminate at 

 the apex, yellow or stramineous; perigynium thin and yellow as in 

 C. inonile^ mostly prominently few-nerved, gradually produced 

 into a conspicuous and more or less toothed beak, broader and 

 usually longer than the light brown or whitish muticous scale. 



Kennebeckasis, N. B., Fowler ; Outlet of Moosehead Lake, Maine, 



C. E, & A. H, Smith. This plant, in the color of its spikes and 



characters of its perigynia, at once suggests C monile, with wiiich 



> future study may unite it. So far as can be determined from the 



poor material at hand, it lacks entirely the peculiar texture of the 



I small and abruptly short-beaked perigynia of C. miliaris, 



A plant collected at the outlet of Moosehead Lake by C. E. 



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1 Smith, and referred doubtfully to C. rotitndata^ Wahl. in the Man- 



ual, I am unable to place, although it may be an outlying form 

 of this poorly defined variety. The beak is exceedingly short 

 and perfectly entire. 



43 — Carex PHYSOCARPA, Presl. Reliq. Haenk. 1. 205 (1830), 



v. s. Hb. Presl; Boott 111. t. 513 (1867), v. s. Hb. Boott; 



Bailey. Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci. xxii. 65 (1886). 



C. ochroleiica, Chamisso jSteud. Plant. Cyper. 216 (1855), v. s. 



Hb. Lenorm. 

 Distinguished by its rough-peduncled and comparatively 

 short (an Inch or two) brown spikes, its very broad and obtuse 

 scale, and the short and nerveless, short and entire-beaked perigyn- 

 ium, which exceeds the scale. Nootka Sound, H(^nke; Rocky 

 ^ Mts. of British America, Drnmmond, Macoiin ; Alaska, Chainisso. 



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^ This is a puzzHng species. Macoun's specimens, collected at 



Morley, have scales more inclined to be acute than do other speci- 

 mens, but I have no hesitation in referring them to this species. 



44— Carex saxatilis, Linn. Fl. Lapp. 259. 



C. pulla, Gooden. Linn. Trans, iii. 78 (i797)» v- s. Hb. Kew. 

 I am entirely unable to draw close lines of separation between 



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