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Carex cespitosa, Z. var. filifolia. Carex micropoda, Meyer. 
apillaris, Z. muricat 
capitata, Z. 8 gracilis. (C. Hookeriana.) 
elongata, L. nigella, Boott, 
feetida, Allioni, obtusata, Liljeblad, 
lobosa, Boott. pauciflora, a 
juncea Willd, podocarpa, & 
lagopina, Wahl. remota, Z. 
leiorhyncha, Meyer. stenophylla, Wahl. 
L. 
The descriptions 486-524, 39 species, have neither plates nor 
See to illustrate them. Thirteen of these are North Ameri- 
can, viz 
Carex ohondnckine: Ehrh, Carex paludosa, Good. 
extensa, Good. pedata, Wahl. 
holostoma, Drej. petricosa, Dew. 
incurva, Lightfoot, — Jacq 
Mertensii, Prescott. triquetra, Boott, 
nse os es, (C. Hepburnii, soap: 9 vou ies. ni), 
ers 
N Noregic, Wahl. 8. stienninches. 
Under C. triquetra reference is made to plate 417. ae number 
figures (. alligata, a very different species. C. triquetra, a Califor- 
nian plant, resembles C. Halleriana, Tab, 415-416, Sete no figure of 
it is given 
Thee of the North American species, 45 are illustrated by - 
plates, 18 by drawings in the Kew herbarium, and 13 have de- 
scriptions oO making 76 species in al : 
A small te of affection and gratitude American Botanists 
might well pay Ms the memory of Dr. Boott by pushing the il- 
lustrations now deposited in the et ae at We gr 
anti a 
. The Variation of of Bhi and Plants under Domestica ; by 
‘f ARWIN, S., ete. 2 vols., with ‘ifustration®. 
8vo. London, Murray, 1868.—At the present moment we can 
only announce that an American Bog ns rint of this important w work i is 
8. 
0, Ye “ite Ce with Delivipiioas - new “Ge enera ; 
Muricea.—This genus has been very ju judiciously re- 
y Dr. Killiker* to species like ©. maaekables (spicifera 
Tome). sires the cells covered with imbricated, fusiform spicula. 
* Tcones Histiologice, ii, p. 135, 1866. 
