374 BOTANY. 



Beechyana. Onp. 207 of the same work, he thinks future observers may unite 

 this species, C. lanuginosa, nuA others, to what he would call the typical 

 form, C. Jiliformis, L. Mariposa, California, (in Herb. Torr., from Herb. 

 Boott. ;) New Mexico, (261 Thurber, a paler plant than usual, named G. 

 lanuginosa, in Bot. Mex. Bound. ; Dr. Palmer.) Stream-bank in the Havallah 

 Mountains, Nevada, and n'ear the mouth of Jordan River, Utah; 4,300-6,500 

 feet altitude ; June. (1,263.) 



Caeex aristata. Brown. Arctic America and the Rocky Mountains 

 of British America, (Richardson, Drummond;) Canada, (Macoun;) New 

 Mexico, Fort Defiance, (Dr. Palmer.) In Ruby Valley, Nevada, and banks 

 of the Jordan near its mouth, Utah; 4,300-6,000 feet altitude; June-Sep- 

 tember. (1,264.) 



Caeex uteiculata, Boott. From New England to Ohio ; British 

 America, Cumberland House, (Richardson.) Ruby Valley, Nevada, and in 

 the Wahsatch and Uintas ; 6,000 feet altitude ; July. (1,265.) 



Var. /?. MiNOK, Boott. From New England to California. Ruby Valley, 

 Nevada ; 6,000 feet altitude ; July. (1,266.) 



Var. GLOBOSA, Olney. A form with sessile globular spikes. California, 

 in the Sierras at 8,000 feet, (6197 Bolander.) Thousand Sj)ring Valley, 

 Nevada; 6,000 feet altitude; September. (1,267.) Specimens from the 

 shore of Cottonwood Lake in the Wahsatch are interesting as showing pro- 

 liferous perigynia, which give an unusual appearance to the spikelets ; 9,000 

 feet altitude; July. (1,268.) An unusual form from Ruby "N^alley, Nevada, 

 I also refer to this species; 6,000 feet altitude; August. (1,269.) C. utri- 

 culata, as long ago indicated by its author, has much closer affinities with C. 

 vesicaria than with C. ampullacea. 



Caeex vesicaeia, L. Oregon and California. On the margin of a sub- 

 alpine lake in the Uintas ; 9,500 feet altitude ; August ; this resembles C. 

 utriculata, but differs in its staminate spike, scales and perigynium. Also on 

 a stream bank in Huntington Valley, Nevada, having conical fruit but no ripe 

 achenia ; 6,000 feet altitude ; August. (1,270.) 



Caeex ampullacea. Good, if restricted to the ordinary European form 

 with canaliculate involute leaves, has no representative in these specimens 

 from Nevada and Utah. The American specimens that I have seen of this 

 type are from Maine, outlet of Moosehead Lake, (C; E. Smith,) Michigan, 

 Portage River, (Prof Porter,) and Minnesota, (Dr. J. Leidy.) There are 



