﻿196 
  T. 
  Holm 
  — 
  Studies 
  in 
  the 
  Cyperacece. 
  

  

  it 
  is 
  reasonable 
  to 
  suppose 
  that 
  his 
  specimens 
  were 
  col- 
  

   lected 
  not 
  far 
  from 
  the 
  localities 
  at 
  which 
  C. 
  Franklinii 
  

   was 
  collected 
  in 
  1917 
  and 
  1918. 
  "— 
  

  

  According 
  to 
  Boott 
  1 
  the 
  original 
  diagnosis 
  reads 
  as 
  

   follows 
  : 
  

  

  "Spicis 
  6-9 
  apice 
  masculis 
  superioribus 
  congestis 
  sessilibus 
  

   inaequalibus 
  inferioribus 
  alternis 
  pedunculatis 
  nutantibus, 
  stig- 
  

   matibus 
  — 
  3 
  vel 
  2, 
  perigyniis 
  oblongo-ovatis 
  hispidis 
  ore 
  membra- 
  

   naceo 
  oblique 
  bifido 
  squama 
  hispida 
  mucrouulata 
  longioribus 
  

   (Tab. 
  218) 
  C. 
  ovata 
  Dew., 
  — 
  Torrey. 
  Hab. 
  Rocky 
  Mountains, 
  

   Drummond. 
  ' 
  ' 
  

  

  "Radix 
  caaspitosa, 
  fibris 
  ferrugineis. 
  Culmus 
  bi-tripedalis, 
  

   pars 
  spicas 
  gerens 
  3-5 
  pollicaris, 
  strictus, 
  nudus 
  (rarissime 
  folium 
  

   vaginans 
  infra 
  spicas 
  gerens), 
  inferne 
  obtusangulus 
  glaber, 
  

   sup 
  erne 
  angulis 
  acutioribus 
  hispidulus, 
  reliquiis 
  foliorum 
  lacera- 
  

   tis 
  basi 
  tectus. 
  Folia 
  radicalia 
  culmo 
  breviora, 
  latitudine 
  

   admodum 
  varia, 
  quasdam 
  setacea, 
  alia 
  lineam 
  lata, 
  scabra, 
  mar- 
  

   gine 
  hispida, 
  superne 
  attenuata. 
  Spicae 
  6-9 
  ferrugineaa, 
  insig- 
  

   niter 
  inaequales, 
  5-11 
  lineas 
  longaa, 
  1-3 
  lineas 
  latae, 
  ovatae, 
  

   quaadam 
  lineares, 
  alia? 
  oblongo-ellipticae. 
  Spica 
  terminalis 
  ovata, 
  

   apice 
  conspicue 
  mascula, 
  ad 
  ejus 
  basin 
  1-3 
  arete 
  sessiles 
  lineares 
  

   tote 
  masculae 
  vel 
  flosculis 
  foemineis 
  paucis 
  basi 
  instructae, 
  ebrac- 
  

   teatae; 
  intermedias 
  subsessiles 
  approximates 
  inferiores 
  deorsum 
  

   longius 
  exserte 
  pedunculatse 
  vel 
  androgynaa 
  vel 
  tote 
  fcemineas; 
  

   infima 
  basi 
  laxiflora 
  et 
  rarius 
  composita 
  (spicula 
  unica 
  basi 
  

   aucta) 
  subremota. 
  Squamas 
  ferrugineae 
  nervo 
  pallido 
  margine 
  

   albo-membranaceaa 
  late 
  ovataa 
  acuminatae 
  mucronulataeque 
  dorso 
  

   versus 
  medium 
  hispid 
  ae. 
  Pedunculi 
  triquetri, 
  hispidi, 
  2 
  lin. 
  ad 
  

   2 
  poll, 
  longi. 
  Bracteaa 
  foliaceae 
  angustas 
  sursum 
  decrescentes, 
  

   vaginata?, 
  inferior 
  culmum 
  paululum 
  superans. 
  Perigynium 
  

   2 
  1/3 
  lin. 
  longum, 
  lineam 
  latum, 
  ellipticum 
  vel 
  oblongo-ovatum, 
  

   compressum, 
  ore 
  membranaceo 
  oblique 
  bifido, 
  nervosum, 
  su- 
  

   perne 
  ferrugineum 
  hispidum, 
  inferne 
  pallidum 
  glabrum, 
  mar- 
  

   ginibus 
  serrato-scabrum. 
  Achenium 
  oblongo-triquetrum, 
  longe 
  

   stipitatum, 
  7/9 
  lin. 
  longum 
  (cum 
  stipite 
  lineam 
  longum) 
  4/9 
  lin. 
  

   latum, 
  pallide 
  castaneum." 
  — 
  

  

  To 
  this, 
  very 
  excellent, 
  diagnosis 
  may 
  be 
  added, 
  that 
  

   the 
  species 
  is 
  not 
  caespitose, 
  bnt 
  stolonif 
  erons 
  ; 
  nearly 
  all 
  

   the 
  specimens, 
  collected 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Maconn, 
  showed 
  a 
  caespi- 
  

   tose 
  habit, 
  bnt 
  in 
  some 
  few 
  plants 
  there 
  were 
  long, 
  hori- 
  

   zontally 
  creeping 
  stolons, 
  and 
  Mr. 
  Maconn 
  informed 
  ns, 
  

   that 
  the 
  soil 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  plants 
  grew 
  was 
  so 
  stiff, 
  that 
  

   it 
  was 
  almost 
  impossible 
  to 
  lift 
  them 
  with 
  the 
  stolons 
  

   attached. 
  One 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  striking 
  peculiarities 
  in 
  this 
  

  

  1 
  In 
  Hooker's 
  Flora 
  Bor. 
  Am., 
  vol. 
  2, 
  p. 
  217. 
  London, 
  1840. 
  

  

  