362 BOTAFT. 



altitude ; August. (1,218.) C. microglocUn, Wahl., was found in Northern 

 Alaska, 1861-'62, by Onion, Kinnicott, and Hardisty. 



Cakex sciepoidea, Michx. From Maine (Blake) to Michigan ; Green- 

 land and Arctic America; Rocky Mountains, (Drummond and others;) 

 Cascade Mountains, Oregon. East Humboldt and Clover Mountains, Nevada, 

 and in the Uintas; 9-10,000 feet altitude; August, September. (1,219.) 



Oarex apfinis, R. Br. Spike solitary, staminate at top ; stigmas 3 ; 

 scales acute, lanceolate, the lower awned ; near C. polytrichoides.— Such is 

 Brown's too brief description in Richardson's Appendix to Franklin's Narra- 

 tive. Boott, in Hook. Fl. Bor. Atn., remarks that the specimen in Herb. 

 Banks, has setaceous leaves and looks like C. Jilifolia. In his Illustrations 

 he refers it to C. ohtusata. It diifers from C. Jilifolia in the form and texture 

 of the scale and in its elliptical perigynium, not oval, nor scabrous except 

 on the margins. Its orifice is not entire. From C. ohtusata it diifers 

 in its setaceous leaves, (those of ohtusata are described by European authors 

 as flat, and so appear in both European and American specimens,) and in the 

 shape and texture (not horny) of the perigynium, while the root is fibrous, 

 not creeping. It is also closely allied to C. Lyoni, (named by Boott on an 

 immature specimen,) but diifers from his detailed description in the top of 

 its leaves being hispid, the perigynium not entirely smooth, the style not 

 inserted, nor the stigma short. Collected by Richardson in the wooded 

 region of British America, latitude 54-60°, and by Vasey (591) in Colo- 

 rado. East Humboldt Mountains and on Clover Peak, Nevada; 10-11,000 

 feet altitude ; September. (1,220.) 



Caeex disticha, Huds. From New York to Illinois and Wisconsin, 

 and westward to the Saskatchewan and the Pacific ; California, (Bolander ;) 

 Western Nevada, (Stretch, in Herb. Torrey.) A single spike occurs in the 

 collection, probably from the same region. (1,221.) 



Caeex stipata, Muhl. From Arctic America to Florida and on the 

 western coast to Columbia River. Near Farmington, Salt Lake Valley, Utah ; 

 4,300 feet altitude ; June. (1,222.) 



Caeex mueicata, L., (not including C. Hookeriana, Dew.'') Massachu- 

 setts ; Rhode Island, (J. W. Congdon ;) New Jersey, (Austin ;) Ohio and 



' Caebx Hookeriana, Dew. The figure of this in Sook. Fl. Bor. Am. is excellent and the analysis 

 poor, Dr. Boott disclaimiug any agency in making them. As late as AprU 24, 1863, the year that he died, 

 he made this memorandum on a Californian plant (1509 Brewer) now hefore me : " This was founded 



