356 BOTAITY. 



katchewan and Behring Strait. The specimens are good enough comosa, 

 which is not distinguishable from forms of campestris, and has been referred 

 to it by Dr. Hooker. In the Uintas near the head of Bear River ; 8,000 feet 

 altitude; July, August. (1,192.) 



LuzuLA SPICATA, Desv. White Mountains, Labrador, Greenland, Beh- 

 ring Strait, Rocky Mountains in latitude 49°, (Lyall,) and in Colorado. East 

 Humboldt and Uinta Mountains ; 9-11,000 feet altitude ; August. (1,193.) 



JuNCUS Balticus, Deth., Var. montanus, Eng. Revis. June, Trans. 

 St. Louis. Acad. 2. 442. Sepals nearly of the same length, the inner ones 

 sometimes more obtuse ; anthers four times longer than the filament ; capsule 

 ovate-pyramidal, angled, beaked ; seeds smaller, narrower and longer pointed 

 than in the eastern form. — From New Mexico and Colorado to the Saskat- 

 chewan and Slave Lake, and west to California, "Washington Territory and 

 Unalaska. Abundant in marshes throughout Nevada and in Utah ; 4-6,000 

 feet altitude. Known as "Wire grass" and considered valuable for hay and 

 pasturage. (1,194.) 



Var., approaching J. Lesueurii, Bol. ; with large flowers, 3" long ; cap- 

 sules abruptly mucronate ; stem 3° high. On Truckee River. (1,195.) 



JuNCUs FiLiFOEMis, L. Northern New England to Michigan, Canada 

 and Hudson's Bay, the Saskatchewan and Great Bear Lake ; Cascade and 

 Rocky Mountains, (Lyall;) Colorado, (Vasey.) Uintas; 8-9,000 feet alti- 

 tude; August. (1,196.) 



JuNcus Deummondii, E. Mey. Eng., I. c, 445. Ceespitose ; stems 

 1-1*° ^igh, terete and filiform ; sheaths bristle-pointed ; spathe ^-14' long, 

 more or less exceeding the simple about 3-flowered panicle ; sepals 2-3" long, 

 lanceolate, acute or the outer ones pointed ; stamens 6, 1" long or less ; an- 

 thers linear, the filaments a little shorter ; stigmas included, shorter than the 

 slender prismatic ovary ; style very short, persistent ; capsule ovate-oblong, 

 triangular, retuse, 3-celled, about equaling or shorter than the sepals ; seeds 

 ovate, striate-reticulate, long-caudate. — Alpine Mountains of Colorado and 

 California to Washington Territory and Unalaska. Wahsatch and Uintas ; 

 9-10,000 feet altitude; July, August. (1,197.) 



JuNCUS Paeeyi, Eng. ; /. c, 446. Csespitose ; stems low, (4-8',) seta- 

 ceous, longer than the sulcate subterete leaves ; spathe 1' or more long, ex- 

 ceeding the simple 1-3-flowered panicle ; sepals 2^-34" long, lance-subulate, 

 the outer ones longer and awned ; stamens 6, about 1" long ; anthers linear, 



