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mature fruit no difference is apparent between plants from Christiania, 
Norway, and Aroostook Co., Maine. 
_ The sheath, said by Professor Bailey to be “less conspicuous ” in the 
American plant, is 4 cm. long, by 2.7 mm. wide in one of Macrae’s 
Montreal specimens, fully as conspicuous as in the best developed 
European material. There is, then, no reason why the American Carex 
saltuensis, Bailey (C. altocaulis, Britton) with no constant vegetative or 
morphological character and with a broad range from northern Labrador 
to the Mackenzie River, northern New England, New York, the Great 
Lakes and the upper Rocky Mts., should be treated as distinct from C. 
vaginata of Greenland, northern Europe and Asia. 
CAREX CAPILLARIS. 
C. caritiaris, L. Sp. 977. The Linnaean plant was the low plant 
of the Scandinavian mountains, described as a span high. This plant, 
well represented in the Gray Herbarium by European specimens from 
Andersson, Holmgren, Hoppe, Lehmann, Tuckerman, and others, varies 
in height from 3 to 25 cm., the spikelets being subapproximate or 
scarcely remote, the lower at most 2 cm. apart. This dwarf plant 
occurs likewise in Greenland and northeastern Asia. It has been ex- 
amined from the following regions in America— LABRADOR, Dead 
Islands (J. A. Allen): NewrouNDLAND, without locality (Za Pylaie) ; 
Middle Arm, Bay of Islands (A. C. Waghorne): QurBec, dry stony 
ground, near summit — 1,150 m. — Mt. Albert (J. A. Allen): Marne, 
Mt. Kineo (7. C. Porter et al): New Hampsuire, Mt. Washington 
(Wm. Oakes et al): Cotoravo, Rocky Mts., alt. 3,385 m. (#. LZ. 
Greene in Exsicc. Olney); South Park (J. Wolfe, no. 1059); Clear 
Creek, Georgetown, alt. 2,615 m. (H. N. Patterson, no. 144, in part): 
Uran (S. Watson, no. ged Wromrnea, La Plata Mines (2. Nelson, 
no. 5260). 
Var. ELONGATA, Olney, in herb. & in Rothr. Prelim, Rep. Wheeler 
Pl. 53 (as nomen nudum). Tall, 2 to 6 dm. high, forming loose stools : 
pistillate spikelets remote, often 6 or 8 cm. apart. — Mossy woods and 
sphagnum-swamps. Rupert Lanp, Lake Mistassini (J. I. Macoun): 
NeEwrounpDLanp, Coal River, Bay of Islands (A. C. Waghorne, no. 
24): Quepec, Ste. Anne des Monts and Little Metis (J. A. Allen) : 
New Brounswick, Drury’s Cove, St. John (Wm. Boott): Mann, 
Fort Fairfield (nos. 140, 2029), Blaine (no. 2028), Mars Hill — AZ L, 
Fernald: New York, Otter Creek, near Cortland (S. WN. Cowles): 
