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drical, subremote, the lowest oeduncled ; perigynia shining, pale or purple, 

 oblong-ovate, tapering to a cylindrical bidentate beak, nerveless or faintly 

 nerved, twice the length of the scale ; scales purple, with pale midnerve, 

 male oblong obtuse, female ovate acute ; bracts leafy, clasping, longer than 

 the culm, evaginate, or occasionally there is below the fertile spikes an 

 empty bract with a vagina J-l' long; stigmas 2-3 (1071-1072, 1070). 



Drejer, Eevista Critica, p. 57, says that the Greenland specimens oipulla 

 are two or three times larger and more robust than Iceland ones, occurring 

 with 1-3 approximate or very remote round ovate, acutish or elongated 

 cylindrical, obtuse female spikes; with scales obtuse, shorter, or acute, 

 longer than the perigynia; stigmas 2-3. In the Linn. Trans., Dr. Boott 

 states that Lapland specimens in the Linnsean Herbarium and the descrip- 

 tion in the Flora Lapponica prove C. jpulla, Good., to be the original C. sax- 

 atilis of Linnaeus, but that afterwards Linnaeus in the Flora Suecica and 

 the Species Plantarum confounded it with C. rigida, Good., which has since 

 with European botanists generally borne the name of saxatilis. Hooker 

 and Arnott in the British Fl. consider C. Grahamii to be a variety of the 

 original saxatilis of Linnaeus. Anderson, Cyper. Scand., names it C. vesica- 

 ria, var. dichroa. Dr. Boott finally thought it to be the var. alpigena, Fries, 

 of vesicaria. 



The following, belonging to the vesicaria group, with immature fruit, 

 do not admit of accurate determination or full description. 



Caeex sp.?, probably new, 2° and over high, pale, slender, smooth 

 and spongy at bottom, slightly scabrous above; leaves 3" wide, much 

 exceeding the culm; male spikes 3-4, If inches long, contiguous (in one 

 specimen male spikes 4, distant, occupying a space of 4' on the culm); 

 female spikes 3-4, oblong cylindrical, 1-2' long, §' wide, 1-3' below the 

 male, and 1— 5£' apart, the uppermost sometimes staminate at top and at 

 bottom, the lowest on short peduncles; bract of lower male spike filiform, 

 exceeding its spikelet; bracts of female spikes evaginate, clasping con- 

 duplicate at base, much longer than the culm; perigynia (very young) 

 widely spreading, ovate, with a rather long, cylindrical, sharply toothed 

 beak, conspicuously nerved ; scale 3-nerved, purple, with pale midnerve, 

 the male oblong-linear, obtuse, female lanceolate or lanceolate-ovate, taper- 



