26 C. Dewey on Caricography. 
Banks of rivers, Santa Barbara, California; Dr. Parry. This 
species has some affinity to C. Darwinii, Boott, Trans. Lin. Soe 
vol. xx, p. 120, but differs much, The prostration of the culms 
may have been caused by some crushing force, Mae | “ 
the pistillate spikes must have been long- -retrocurved, a n C. 
pendula, Goodenough. It bears the name of pg distin: 
guished member of the exploring party. 
No. 270. ©. monticola, Dew. 
Spica staminifera solitaria inferne tereti erecta brevi-bracteata 
cum squatnis oblongis obtusiusculis dorso excepto castaneis; pis- 
tilliferis binis sub-laxifloris, superiori sessili staminifera conti- 
gua, inferiore interdum subremota vaginata exserte pedunculata,; 
fructibus di-tristigmaticis “ictal oblongis convexo-concavis 
re he tne vix rostratis subvillosis nervosis ore Integris vel - 
bi 
J ike near it and another vistllat eh Sicbreabes often sheath- 
ger than the fruit, while the others are acute and shorter than 
the fruit. 
In the cases where the fruit is lenticular while the stigmas are 
sometimes three, probably one of the stigmas is barren or abortive. 
ountains east of San Diego, California ; Dr. Parry. This is — 
another of the few 2g having two stigmas with a single sta- 
minate spike. 
Note 1.—C. Uinbellata, Schk., Tab. w. w. w., fig. 171, and its 
var. vicina Dew., vol. x x, [1], 31, and wel %, [1], 317, this Journ., 
have been found wide over the co 
The variety occurs also with sag an three pistillate spikes, in- — 
stead of one, near the staminate, besides the short and somewhat _ 
umbellate pistillate Pou Bs xt ‘the root ‘of the culm. Mexican © 
Bound. Survey, vol. 1i, P 
vee on the Cilchans snd a news rivers in Texas; Wright. — 
Numerous specimens were brought by the discoverer, of = 
form Fa by Schkuhr, and of the variety mentioned ; the la 
being most common. we 
C. decidua, Boott, yok XXvVii, 2}, p. 78, of this Journal, first — 
found in Tierra del Fuego, afte s in — ates 6 
a 
Note 2 se SS p- 231, Mex. Soe Surv., is a mis- 
take for C. Geyeri, Boo : 
