Hab. Falkland Islands ; B' Urville.
I have seen no Falkland Island specimens of this plant ; can it be the C. /estiva ?
2. CxuEx/estiva, Dewey ; spica composita e spiculis pluribus androgynis basi masculis in capituluni ovato-suborbiculatum arete congestis, stigmatibus 2, perigyniis ovatis acuminato-rostratis bifidis ore antice oblique fisso nervosis marginatis denticulato-serratis squamam lanceolatani acutam sequantibus vel ea longi- oribus. Boott. C. festiva, Dewey, in Sill. Journ. vol. xxix p. 446. C. propinqua (?), Nees et Meyen.
Hab. Strait of Magalhaens ; Port Gregory and Port Famine, Copt. King.
Cidmus subpedalis, strictus, inferne glaber, foliis vaginantibus, rudimentisque foliorum pallide castaneis tectus, superne nudus, acutangulus, serrato-scabcr. Folia 2 lin. lata, culmum eequantia vel breviora, margine scabra. Spica 8-9 lin. longa, 7-8 lin lata, nuda, vel bractea brevi subfoliacea basi suffulta. Spicule? 8-12, vel plures, sub-rotundse, arctissime congestae, ferruginene, concolores. Squama lanceolatae, acuta;, apice membranaceo-pallidce. Antheree hispido-apiculats. Stylus exsertus. Stigmata 2, longa. Perigynium 2 lin. longuin, lineam latum, utrinque nervosum, ferrugineum, marginibus alatis, e medio sursum denticulato-serratis. Acluenium 8-9 lin. long., 5-9 lin. latum, oblongum, compressum, ferrugineum, basi styli abrupte apicidatum. Boott.
A C. ovali, Good., solmn, spiculis pluribus, subrotundis, in capitulum arete congestis, perigyniis paululum brevioribus, differt. Boott.
Dr. Boott has kindly favoured me with the range of this species, which is so wide in the northern hemisphere that we should quite expect that it will hereafter be found along the chain of the Cordillera. Commencing in Greenland on the east, it crosses to Unalaschka on the west by Cumberland House on Bear Lake, and thence runs south along the Rocky Mountains. In Europe it has hitherto been found in Lapland only.
3. Cauex curta, Good., in Linn. Trans, vol. ii. p. 145. Engl. Hot. t. 386, C. spicata, Banks et Sol. MSS. in Mus. Banks, cum icone. C. siuiilis, B' Urv. in Mem. Soc. Linn. Paris, vol. iv. p. 599. KuntJi, En. Plant, vol. ii. p. 403.
Hab. Strait of Magalhaens ; Port Famine, Capt. King ; Good Success Bay, Banks and Solander ; Falkland Islands, abundant, B' Urville, J. B. H.
The present, Dr. Boott remarks, is decidedly the European C. curta, one Falkland Island specimen alone, out of very many, differing from the others in having ten spicuke, the average number being six to eight.
The geographical distribution of this species is very wide, for it inhabits all Europe from the latitude of Lapland, where, according to Wahlenberg, it is excessively common, to the Mediterranean region, which it does not enter. In Arctic America again it is abundant, extending in the. United States as far south as New York. 4. Cakex acaulis, D'Urv., in Mem. Soc. Linn. Paris, vol. iv. p.599. Brong. in Duperrey, Toy. But. p. 153. t. 2S A.
Hab. Falkland Islands, B' Urville.
A species wholly unknown to me, except through the figure and description of M. Brongniart.
5. Cakex decidua, Boott; spicis 4-7 atro-purpureis erectis, suprema mascula vel androgyna basi vel apice et basi rnascula, reliquis fcemineis, superioribus sessilibus contiguis oblongis, inferioribus cylindraceis bracteatis evaginatis rarius gerninatis, infima brevi pedunculata subremota, stigmatibus 2, perigyniis oblongo-ovatis rostellatis ore integro utrinque nervosis stipitatis pallidis deciduis squama oblonga obtusa atro-purpurea nervo pallido decidua longioribus latioribusque. Boott. C. crespitosa, Banks et Sol. MSS. in Mus. Banks, cum icone.
