North American Cypcracece. 397 
Hab. Northern States and British America ! W. to the 
Rocky Mountains ! 
43. C. SAXATiLis, Linn. ji. Succ. ; fl. Dan. t. 159 ; 
SchJcuhr, car. f. 40. 
(3. Fertile spikes 2 — 4, approximate or somewhat remote, 
rather loosely flowered ; stigmas sometimes 3. 
C. Bigelowii, Torrey ! in Schiv. anal. tab. I. c. 
C. AVasliingtoniana, Dervey ! car. I. c. 10. p. 272. 
C. saxatilis, Pursh, fl. 1. p. 38. 
C. nigra, Schiv. S^- Torr. ! car. I. c. p. 336. 
Hab. Arctic America ! ; Kotzebue's Sound ! /3. in hem- 
lock woods of Vermont and New Hampshire, Pursh ; on 
Mount Washington, New Hampshire, Bigeloiv and Dr. Bar- 
ratt! — After a most careful examination, we find but two stig- 
mas in all the flowers of our fine suite of specimens of C. 
Washingtonknia, collected by Dr. Barratt, on whose specimens 
the species was founded. The fruit seems to us rather obtuse 
than acute ; and the scales, although somewhat variable, are 
mostly as obtuse as in our European forms of C. saxatilis. 
We do not hesitate, therefore, to consider the plant a variety 
of C. saxatilis. This view is wholly confirmed by an exami- 
nation of our numerous specimens of that species from the 
North of Europe: those from Norway, Silesia, &c.', so closely 
resemble the plant from Mount Washington that they can 
scarcely be distinguished ; while, on the other hand, specimens 
from Lapland, &c., which differ in being somewhat smaller, 
in their shorter and more clustered spikes and dark-coloured 
fruit, are in all respects similar to those from Arctic America. 
These last have much of the aspect of C. nigra. It cannot 
now be doubted that our (3 of this species was really seen by 
Pursh, and correctly referred to C. saxatilis ; and it is highly 
probable that it will hereafter be found in other localities in 
the northern portion of New England besides Mount Wash- 
ington. 
