CATALOGUE. 365 



Caeex elongata, L. Spike of 6-12 oblong rusty-green spikelets, 

 staminate at base, the upper all contiguous, the lower quite remote ; bracts 

 scale-like, cuspidate, rarely surpassing the spikelets ; stigmas 2 ; perigynium 

 elliptic-lanceolate, beaked, with an emarginate orifice, scabrous above on the 

 margins, nerved on both sides, plano-convex, spongy at base, spreading or 

 recurved, at length tawny, longer than the ovate rusty scale, which is hya- 

 line at top. Root creeping, csespitose ; culm 1-2° high, triquetrous. — Sitka, 

 (Bongard.) Uinta Mountains, shore of a small subalpine lake near head of 

 Bear River ; 9,500 feet altitude ; August. With it were growing the next 

 two species and also C. liinula, saxatilis, Magellanica, Buxbaumii and vesi- 

 caria. (1,231.) 



Caeex Bonplandii, Kth. Spikes of 8-12 blackish-purple or rusty 

 spikelets, more or less bracted, staminate at base ; stigmas 2 ; perigynium 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate, gradually tapering to a beak, the orifice entire and 

 deeply cleft in front, wingless, more or less serrate on the margins at the 

 apex, nerved, plano-convex, equaling the ovate subacute scale ; achenium 

 oblong-ovate, contracted at base, biconvex and apiculate. (C. Pardiei, Boott, 

 ///.) Var. MINOR, Olney. Spikelets small, fewer ; bracts scale-like. — Rocky 

 Mountains of Colorado, (591 Hall & Harbour, according to Boott; 591 and 

 601 ! Vasey ;) California, (4903 and 6207 Bolander; 550 Torrey.) In the 

 Uintas, with the last; 9,500 feet altitude ; August. (1,232.) 



Caeex lagopina, Wahl. Spike oval or oblong, reddish-brown, naked, 

 composed of 3 (rarely 4-6) spikelets, staminate at base, the lowest or lower 

 ones wholly pistillate, the upper or all closely aggregated ; bracts scale-like, 

 broad, rarely exceeding the culm ; stigmas 2 ; perigynium oval or elliptic- 

 lanceolate with a more or less tapering beak, or subrotund with a short ab- 

 rupt beak, the orifice entire and cleft in front, nerved on both sides, pale at 

 base, tawny above, wingless, plano-convex, smooth, toothed above on the 

 margins, longer than the ovate obtuse dusky scale, which has a white hya- 

 line margin. Root fibrous; culm 4-12' high. — Grreenland; Rocky Mount- 

 ains of British America, (268 Drummond ;) California, near Ebbett's Pass, 

 at 8,200 feet altitude, (2063 Brewer.) In the Uintas, with the last two spe- 

 cies. (1,233.) 



Caeex leporina, L. FL 8uec. Spike oblong, tawny, brown, composed 

 of 5-6 (rarely more) nearly round or obovate spikelets, staminate at base, 

 alternately contiguous, sometimes aggregated into an elliptical head, the high- 



