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uated below or obovatc, beaked with the orifice emarginate, rusty or pale-green, 

 strigose-hairy, with 2 marginal nerves, narrower and twice as long as the 

 broad ovate obtuse purple scale, which has a broad whitish-hyahne ciliated 

 margin ; achenium stipitate and triquetrous, rusty. — Arctic America, (Rich- 

 ardson;) Rocky Mountains of British America, (Drummond, according to 

 Boott ;) subarctic Alaska, (Onion, Kinnicott and Hardisty.) On Cottonwood 

 Lake in the Wahsatch ; 9,000 feet altitude ; July. (1,259.) 



Caeex Rossii, Boott. Spikelets 4-5, pale, few-flowered, the terminal one 

 staminate, the rest pistillate, each of 3-6 alternate and distinct flowers, the 

 upper 3 spikes approximate, the lower remote, exsertly but unequally long- 

 pedunculate ; an upper bract surpassing the culm, the lower sheathed, and 

 all but the lower short-peduncled ; stigmas 3 ; perigynium oval, stipitate, 

 long-beaked, bifid, pubescent, nerveless, equaling the ovate-lanceolate 

 acute or cuspidate scale; achenium globose-triangular, obtuse. — Rocky 

 Mountains, latitude 52°, (Drummond;) Colorado, (620 Hall & Harbour, 

 692 and 592 A. of Vasey, E. L. Greene ;) New Mexico, (889 Fendler.) 

 East' Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch and Uintas ; 

 8-9,000 feet altitude ; July-September. (1,260.) 



Caeex capillaeis, L. New Hampshire, New York, and on Lake 

 Michigan; on the Saskatchewan, (Bourgeau,) and northwai'd, (Richardson;) 

 Colorado, (Parry, Hall & Harbour, Greene.) On Cottonwood Lake in the 

 Wahsatch; 9,000 feet altitude ; July. (1,261.) 



Caeex lanuginosa, Michx. From New England to Kentucky, and 

 north and westward to the Saskatchewan, Mackenzie River and Oregon ; 

 Colorado and New Mexico. In the Shoshone and East Humboldt Mountains, 

 Nevada, and in the Wahsatch and Uintas; 6-7,000 feet altitude; June- 

 August. (1,262.) 



Caeex iEMATHOEHYNCHA, Desv. Fl. Chil. 6. 224. Spikes 4, cylindric, 

 erect, approximate, dense-flowered, the 2 upper staminate with the lower 

 scales obtuse, ciliate and purple, white upon the margins, the rest pistillate 

 and the lowest sometimes peduncled ; bracts leafy, the lower equaling the 

 culm ; stigmas 3 ; perigynium ovate, beaked, emarginate or bidentate, clothed 

 with long hairs, nerved, rusty-colored, pale at the base, the beak purple, 

 shorter than or equahng the oval acuminate or acute purple scale ; achenium 

 oval, triquetrous, with the base of the style contorted. — This species seems 

 too near C. lanuginosa. Dr. Boott in lllust. states its affinity to be with C. 



