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which has been referred to the European species, and faih"ng to 

 detect the stoloniferous character which is characteristic of C. 

 rostrata^ it has appeared that the two plants are specifically dis- 

 tinct. From the European species, C, uiriciclata is separated by 

 grosser habit, lack of stoloniferous character, broader and pro- 

 portionately shorter leaves, heavier and more scattered spikes, of 

 which the lower are less peduncled, and much sharper scales. 

 C. rostrata is a much neater plant, with slim, compact and evenly 

 cylindrical spikes which are somewhat approximated near the top 

 of the culm. Our species runs imperceptibly into 

 Van MINOR, Boott, 1. c, 



C. ntricttlata^ var. globosa, Olney, Bot. King's Rep. 374. (187 1). 



C. rostrata^ Bailey, 1. c. 



Smaller throughout ; leaves narrower and less nodulose ; 

 spikes 2^ in. or less long; perigynium smaller; scales muticous. 

 With the species. 



85, — Waiilenberg's Carices. 



Aside from the species reviewed in the preceding pages the 

 following have been seen : 



V. s. Hb. Wahl. 



C, w ic ; 'og loch in . 



C. Buxbaiimii : C. fuscay All. 



C, iistiilata : C. atrofusca, Schk. 



C, pedata, 



C, cancscens, var. alpicola. 



C. tentiijlora. 



C. lagopina. 



C. glareosa. 



C, aqnatilis. It is not certain that the American plant is 

 the same as the European. 



V. s. Hb. Holm. 



C, ra^/^z;/6'^, Kongl. Acad, Handl. xxiv. 155 (1803). CJlex- 

 iliSy Rudge, Linn. Trans, vii. 98, t 10 (1804), v. s. Hb. 

 Kens. 



C. cladostachya, C. polystachya^ and C. scabrella are in 



Hb- Swartz, 



Wahlenberg's originals do not appear to be 



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