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Carex anomala, Boott, (n. sp.): spicis 9 androgynis basi masculis pallidis alternis ovalibus 

 simplicibus longe bracteatis ; stigmatibus 3 ; perigyniis orbiculatis rostratis bidentatis margine 

 anguste alatis serratis enerviis squama subrotunda obtusissima longe aristata albo-byalina 

 nervo viridi longioribus vel brevioribus. — Simoda? Culm 10 incbes higb, weak, smootb, leafy 

 at the base ; the spike-bearing portion 2\ inches long. Calm-leaf 2 lines broad, surpassing the 

 culm. Bracts foliaceous ; the lowest rather narrower than the leaf; the others successively 

 narrower ; all but the uppermost exceeding the culm ; the lower ones much exceeding it. Spike- 

 lets 3 or 4 lines long, a line and a half broad, all simple and sessile, masculine only at the base. 

 Lower scales larger-awned than the upper, the hispid awn exceeding the perigynium, in others 

 equalling it or shorter. Immature perigynium over a line and a half long, less than a line 

 wide. Achenium obovate, obtuse ; the base of the style thickened and deciduous. This has 

 somewhat the aspect of C. remota ; from which and from its allies it differs in having three 

 stigmas and the spikes all bracteate. From the description of C. gibba of Wahlenberg it differs 

 in its simple spikes, three stigmas, orbicular perigynium, and awned scales. The specimen is 

 too young to show well the achenium, which, from the three stigmas, should be triquetrous. 

 I know of no species among the Androgynoe basi mascula to compare with it in this respect. 

 Carex incisa, Boott, (n. sp.): spicis 4-5 cylindricis basi attenuatis laxifloris pedunculatis 

 evaginatis, terminali basi mascula, reliquiis fcemineis, inferioribus remotis longe pedunculatis, 

 infima bracteata ; stigmatibus 2 ; perigyniis (immaturis) ovatis erostratis emarginatis bidentatis 

 enerviis resinoso-punctatis squama obtusissima truncata vel emarginata subasquilata (nervo lato 

 viridi, lateribus pallide lutescentibus) longioribus. — Hakodadi, on the sea beach. Culm 6 

 inches high, slender, smooth, leafy at the base, and there covered with ferruginous rudiments of 

 leaves ; the spike-bearing portion 3 inches long. Leaves 2 lines wide, flat, shorter than the 

 culm; the base and sheath spotted with fine resinous dots. Bracts shorter than their spikes ; 

 the lowest foliaceous ; the uppermost scale-like and cuspidate. Peduncles varying from a line 

 to an inch long, smooth. Terminal spike an inch long, a line wide, its apex bearing few or 

 several fertile flowers, the base tapering, short-peduncled. Fertile spikes \ to 2\ inches long, 

 a line wide, tapering and loosely-flowered at the base. Perigynium less than a line and a half 

 long. Related to C. lenticularis of Michaux, (which equally has the sheaths dotted,) and 

 somewhat so to C. notha of Kunth. 



Carex longerostrata, G. A. Meyer in Mem. Acad. St. Pet. I. c. p. 220, t. 12. C. bispicata, 

 Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech, p. 118, t. 28. C. Camschatcensis, Kunth, Enum. 2, p. 477. 

 Hakodadi. The specimens are very young. 



Carex precox, Jacq. Fl. Austr. t. 446. Hakodadi. 



Carex heterolepis, Bunge. I. c? Stig. 2. Hakodadi. Too young for determination. 

 Carex villosa, Boott. (n. sp.); spicis 2-3 remotis, terminati mascula cylindrica lutescenti- 

 albida pedunculata, fcemineis 1-2 oblongo-cylindraceis laxifloris vaginatis, infima breve exserte 

 pedunculata ; stigmatibus 3 ; perigyniis (floriferis) ovatis rostratis (ore obliquo bidentato) hir- 

 sutis demum excurvis nervatis squama oblonga obtusa brevi-cuspidata longioribus. — Simoda? 

 The weak culm with its leaves, bracts, (the latter shorter than the culm,) sheaths and peduncles 

 all clothed with long white hairs. The species is allied to C. pilosa. 



Carex Donniana, Spreng, Syst. 3, p. 825, Drejer, Symb. Car. t. 13. C. chlorostachys, Don, 

 in Linn. Trans. 14, p. 330. Simoda. This appears to be the same with the Himalaya species, 

 which is well figured by Drejer; but all authors, except Don, omit to notice the ventricose peri- 



