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BOTANY. 
Carex vesicaria, Linn.; Schk. Car. t. Ss. f. 106. With the last; April 30. One of the 
specimens is var. major , Boott, l. c. 
Carex siccata, Dewey , in Sill. Journ. 10, p. 278, t. F. f. 18; and 14, p. 353. C. pallida, 
Meyer. With the last species ; April 30. 
Carex stellulata, Good, in Linn. Trans. 2, p. 144; Schk. Car. t. 3, /. 14. Swamps, Santa 
Rosa, California ; May 3. 
Carex propinqua, Wees, et Mey. in Kunth, Enum. 2,p. 396. Swamps, Mark West’s Creek, 
California ; April 30. No. 1622 of Coulter’s California collection. 
Carex Cherokeensis, Seine.; Torr. & Seine. Car. in Ann. Lye. N. York, 1 , p. 369, t. 25,/. 1. 
Swamps, Santa Rosa Creek, California ; May 1. We can find no character that will distinguish 
this from the eastern plant. The specimens are young. The ovate abbreviate spikes and short 
bracts give it a peculiar aspect. It might he considered a var. minor. C. Cherokeensis, like all 
its allies, is very variable ; from solitary to geminate and ternate spikes, (my C. Christiana, in 
Dost. Jour. Nat. Hist.) Bigelow’s specimens, if mature, would closely resemble the original 
figure of C. Cherokeensis, Torr. & Sclnvein. Monogr. of N. Amer. Car. in Ann. Lye. N. York , 
M- 25,/. 1. 
GRAMINEiE. 
Alopecurus geniculatus, Linn. Spec. p. 89 ; Kunth, Enum. 1, p. 24. Low places, Napa 
Valley, California; April 26. A. borealis, Trin., seems to be only a form of this variable 
species. 
Phalaris arundinacea, Linn. Spec. p. 80 ; Torr. FI. N. York, 2, p. 418. P. Californica, 
Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech, p. 161. Bolinas Bay, April 19, and Napa Valley, California ; April 
26. 
Hierochloa borealis, Bcem. & Schult. Syst. 2, p. 513 ; Hook. FI. Bor.-Amer. 2, p. 234. 
Red-woods, California ; April 12. Male flowers with a very short awn, or sometimes scarcely 
mucronate. 
Stipa Neesiana, Trin. & Rupr. Slip. p. 27 ; Steud. Syn. Glum. p. 124. S. avenacea, Hook. 
& Am. Bot. Beech, p. 403, non Linn. Hill-sides, Sonoma, May 3, and Benicia, California; 
April 23. It is No. 2028 of Hartweg’s collection. It differs from S. avenacea of the eastern 
States in its much larger flowers, the almost villous lower palea, the hairiness of the awn 
below the articulation, and in the pubescent leaves. 
Agrostis microphylla, Steud. Syn. FI. Glum. p. 164? Mark West’s creek, California, May 
1. This species was founded on a grass collected by Douglas in ee North America ;” doubtless 
in California, though it is not taken up by Hooker and Arnott in the Botany of Beechey’s 
Voyage. It is Agraulus brevifolius, Nees, Mss. Our plant differs somewhat from the grass 
described by Steudel. It is rather stout than slender,” and is nearly two feet high. The 
leaves are flat, about two lines wide, and, as well as the sheaths, are quite rough to the feel. 
Panicle about three inches long, contracted ; the branches fasciculate and somewhat conglom¬ 
erate. The flowers are of a purplish tinge. Glumes nearly equal, lanceolate, tapering to a 
long slender point, the lower one rough on the keel, otherwise glabrous ; both of them without 
lateral nerves. Lower palea less than half the length of the glumes, truncate, with four short 
teeth at the summit, furnished a little below the middle of the back with a nearly straight 
slender awn, which is nearly twice the length of the valve. Upper palea wanting, or appearing 
as a very minute rudiment. Stamens 3. Styles plumose. 
Calamagrostis gigantea, Nutt, in Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. (n. ser .) 5, p. 143. Prairies and 
ravines, along the Canadian River. Glumes somewhat coriaceous, one-nerved, the superior 
nearly 2-3 times the length of the palem, hairs at the base of the latter more than half the 
length of the valves. Caryopsis oblong, obtuse at each end, large for the size of the spikelet. 
Sporobolus cryptandrus, Gray, Man. p. 542. Vilfa cryptandra, Torr. FI. N. York, 2, 440. 
