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9-11), and which Professor Bailey has referred to C Barharce. 

 By comparing these figures with those of C. Barharce (figs. 

 1-5), it seems not very difficult to see that they are not the 

 same species. Dewey's specimen of C. Sitchensis agrees well 

 with the Sitka-plant (figs. 12-14), with the only difference that 

 the latter lacks the nerves in the perigynium. In figs. 15-17, 

 we see the perigynia and scales of a Carex from British Colum- 

 bia, which Professor Bailey has also referred to C. Barharce; 

 this northern plant we have described as C. dives, and it is 

 certainly very distinct from C. Barbaras Dew., but a near ally 

 of C. Sitchensis Presc. Finally we have the very robust species 

 from Mr. Parish's collection (figs. 18-20), and this cannot pos- 

 sibly be identified as C. Barharce Dew. either ; it may repre- 

 sent an undescribed species, unless it be a gigantic C. Sitchensis 

 Presc. 



In regard to C. Sitchensis Presc. we might state at the same 

 time that our figures 12-14 were drawn from some material 

 collected recently by Professor C. Y. Piper, and that these 

 specimens agree in all respects with authentic material in Bis- 

 choff's herbarium, which is now in the possession of the St. 

 Louis botanical garden. 



Carex Barharce Dew. must be placed among the ^Eora- 

 stachyce Drej. on account of the long, nodding, dark-colored 

 spikes, the broad mucronate scales and the glabrous perigynia 

 with the orifice entire. 



Carex magnifica Dew. 



As stated in a previously published paper,* this species has 

 for many years passed for C. Sitchensis Prescott, and described 

 and illustrated by Boottf as representing this species. Several 

 specimens were sent to Boott by Dewey under this name mag- 

 nifica, but not accompanied by any diagnosis ; however, there 

 being no other name or synonym for it, the name ?nagnifica 

 has been adopted by C. B. Clarke, and we now append the 

 diagnosis, copied from Boott (1. c.) and based upon specimens 

 from California : 



" Spicis 5-8 cylindricis atro-purpureis, masculis 2-3 rarius 

 4 sessilibus erectis, foemineis 3-5 superioribus conspicue (raro 

 omnibus) apice masculis inferioribus pedunculatis erectis vel 

 nutantibus evaginatis basi saepe laxifloris ; bracteis inferiori- 

 bus culmuin superantibus ; stigmatibus 2 ; perigyniis ovalibus 

 v. obovatis vel subrotundis rostellatis biconvexis, ore integro 

 glabris vel ad margines apice subinde parce denticulatis flavi- 

 dis dense spongiosis, squama ovato-lanceolata acuminata acuta 



*This Journal, vol. xvii, p. 3l6, April, 1904. 



■f 111. genus Carex, vol. iv, p. 159, PI. 518 and 519. 



