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triangular, scabrous, pliyllopodic ; spikes three to four, the termi- 

 nal staminate, the lateral pistillate or, sometimes, the upper one 

 androgynous, contiguous, sessile or the lowest one peduncled, 

 erect, dense-flowered, short, subtended by bracts, of which only 

 the lowermost is foliaceous, shorter than the spike and with 

 black auricles ; scale of staminate flower linear-lanceolate, 

 brown with pale mid vein ; scale of pistillate flower ovate, obtuse, 

 black with the midvein obsolete, shorter and much narrower 

 than the perigynium ; perigynium shortly stipitate, erect, tur- 

 gid, nearly globose, granular, two-nerved, brownish green with 

 purplish spots above, the beak minute, .entire ; stigmata two or 

 three, the style exserted. 



Grows in tufts in woods and in boggy places : West Dawson, 

 ' mountains back of Dawson, Hunker Creek, Yukon, collected by 

 Professor John Macoun (Nos. 53,842, 53, 55, and 58). This 

 together with the preceding, C. eonsimilis, are no doubt close 

 allies, but they appear so distinct from the other Microrhynchce, 

 that their place within the section seems uncertain. In some 

 respects they resemble 0. vulgaris and C. rigida, in others C. 

 cazspitosa and O. hcgens, yet they may "ad interim" be placed 

 with C. nudata between C. aquatilis and C. interrupta, as indi- 

 cated in " Greges Caricum." 



Car ex limnocharis sp. n. 



Rhizome stoloniferous with persisting, purplish scale-like 

 leaves; leaves as long as the culm, rather narrow, flat, scabrous; 

 culm 30 cm in height, erect, but curved at the apex, triangular, 

 glabrous, pliyllopodic ; spikes five, the terminal staminate, the 

 lateral pistillate or the uppermost androgynous, contiguous, 

 peduncled, spreading, not very dense-flowered, about 5 cm in 

 length, but thin, subtended by sheathless, foliaceous bracts, 

 much longer than the inflorescence ; scale of staminate flower 

 linear-lanceolate, acute, light brown ; scale of pistillate flower 

 ovate acuminate, reddish brown with green, not excurrent mid- 

 rib, narrower but longer than the perigynium ; perigynium stipi- 

 tate, erect, broadly elliptical, granular above, nerveless, pale 

 green, the beak short, entire ; stigmata two, style enclosed. 



In muddy places, Klondike River, Yukon, collected by Pro- 

 fessor John Macoun (53,846). 



Allied to C. acutina, but more robust ; a beautiful species 

 with long, slender spikes of reddish brown color, in habit much 

 like the European C. prolixa Fr. 



Carex millegrana sp. n. 



Rhizome wanting, but apparently csespitose with persisting 

 reddish-brown leaf -sheaths : leaves shorter than the culm, nar- 



