North American CijiJeracea. 399 
Hab. Rocky ^Mountains, Dr. James! collected in Long's 
first expedition. This species, which is somewhat related to 
C. puUa, is very different fi'om every other with which we are 
acquainted ; and we have therefore given it the present name in 
honour of its discoverer, Dr. Edwin James. The stigmas have 
wholly fallen in the single specimen collected by Dr. James ; 
but the lenticular nut indicates it to belong to the distigmatic 
section. It should be observed here, that we have not been 
able to consult the description of C. compacta of R. Brown, 
which is placed in this group. The C. Jamesii in the analyti- 
cal table of Schweinitz, is C. Willdenovii. 
47. Carex Scouleri. 
Spikes all on filiform peduncles destitute of sheaths ; fertile 
ones 3, oblong-cylindrical ; staminate ones 2, short, attenuate 
at each extremity ; fruit exactly orbicular, plano-convex or 
lenticular, regularly and minutely striate, erostrate, minutely 
apiculate, broader and a little shorter than the dark purple, ovate 
scale ; orifice minute, entire. 
Whole plant smooth and glabrous. Culm slender, about 18 inchfes 
high. Cauline leaves 2 — 4 inches long, and scarcely a line wide. Spikes 
all somewhat approximate. Bracts setaceous, about the length of the 
spikes, not sheathing at the base. Peduncles of the staminate and upper 
pistillate spikes about an inch long ; the lower one longer. Stam. spikes 
6—8 lines long ; scales obtuse, fawny, with a whitish keel. Pist. 
spikes about an inch long, rather densely flowered ; the uppermost bear- 
ing a few staminate flowers at the summit. Scales ovate, acute. Fruit 
light brown, about a line in diameter, verj' lightly and regularly striate 
longitudinally, convex on one side, nearly flat on the other. Nut round- 
ish, flat. Slig}nas 2. 
Hab. Observatory Inlet, on the western shore of America, 
Dr. Scouler ! (under the name of C.frigida). 
Obs. a very distinct species from every other of this 
group, and manifestly allied to C. Ihnosa, from which it is 
clearly distinguished by the characters given above. 
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