290 Scientific Intelligence. : 
Two or three years ago we identified Scirpus pauciflorus in the North- 
ern States, on occasion of its being sent from the northern part of Illinois 
by Dr. George Vasey. We then ascertained that it had long before been 
founded with the very distinct S. planifolius, e have this summer re- 
ceived from another part of our northern frontier, viz: from the vicinity 
of Buffalo, New York, still another Scirpus of this group; one whic 
may be — and we trust definitively, distinguished by the following 
diagnosi 
— us —— (sp. nov.): folio e vagina suprema involuto-fili- 
form pk pi m br reviori, caeteris brevissimis vel subnullis; squa 
rantibus : 
the plains between — and Williamsville, Sam York, Hon. George 
W. Clinton, June, 1864.—The hypog ogynous bristles a are perhaps rather 
g hairs than in S. pla- 
w t acc 
y pointless scales of the spike; the midrib or keel, instead of projecting 
into a cusp as in S. planifolius, vanishing quite below the blunt and sea- 
rious apex of the scale. In naming this species after its fennel 7” 
welcome back, with this gift in his hands, a deserter of thirty years from 
the botanical ranks, into which he enlisted in youth, and from which he 
was led away by the demands of an exacting profession. And we con- 
fidently wish him a success worthy of his name and lineage in his laud- 
able endeavors to promote a knowledge of the botany, and to complete 
the public rahe of his gic — e. 
Scirpus csprrosus, L.; a subalpine species, which Dr. 
Pitcher, however, had collected re pte outlet of Lake Superior, and we 
had ourselves met with on the higher mountains of North Carolina, has 
this year been detected at Ringwood, _in the northern part of the State of 
Ulinois, far distant from any mountai 
ELzocuaris simpLex, Torr., has to he added to the Flora of the Northern 
States, having been detected by Mr. Wm. M. Canby, in 1863, on the 
Eastern Shore of Ma aryland. 
Eveocuaris rosretiara, Torr., has been af pea detected in the she 
ound. The other part, which will be yet larger, is dev 
* the a rbiacee ; and a iculus of it, containing the genes fiu- 
rbia, was issued in the year 1862. The volume now before us con- 
stg eo te rt in his 
war ae seat also from Michigan, and that he takes it to 
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