1 16 Caricis Species Novce vel mums cognitce, 



2. C. SuLLiVANTii ; spicis 4-6 cylindticis gracilibus ; mascula 1 ; foeinineis 

 4 rariiis 3-5 laxifloris erectis pedunculatis superioribus approximatis 

 infima remota exsert^ pedunculata basi attenuata saepfe composita, stig- 

 niatibus 3, perigyniis ellipticis brevi-rostratis ore integro vel ernarginato 

 viridibus pellucid^ punctatis pilosis enerviis squama ovata ciliata his- 

 pido-muci-onata albida nervo viridi paululiim longioribus. 



C. Sullivantii, B. Bot. Exc. to the Mountains of Noith Carolina ; Gray in 

 Silliman's Journ. 42. p. 29. 



Hub. In sylvaticis, prope Columbum, Ohionis, Americae Sept., W. S. Sullivant, 1840. 



Pilosa. Culmus bipedalis, gracilis, firmus, acutangulus, pilis albis, longis, sparsis vestitus, 

 basi vaginis atro-purpureis foliisque vestientibus tectus ; pars spicas gerens 2-9, rarius 

 12 poll, longa. Folia 2-3i lin, lata, culmo breviora, pilosa. Bractese pilosae; infima 

 vaginata, foliacea, culmum aequans vel multum brevier; superiores setaceee. Vagina 

 3 lin. ad li poll, longa, albida, sa;pe punctis minimis ferrugineis maculata. Spica 

 mascula semper solitaria, 7-15 lin. longa, vix lineam lata, sessilis vel brevi-pedunculata ; 

 squamae obtusae, muticae, apice ciliolatae, pallide castaneae, margine hyalinae, nervo 

 scabro. Spicae foemineae saepius 4, rariiis 3-5 vel 2, laxiflorae, 1-li poll, longae, 1-li 

 lin. latae; superiores approximato-contiguae, infima aliquando intervallo 6-12 poll, 

 longo remota, saepe basi spicula altera minori composita, suprema rariiis geminata ; 

 squamae albidae, nervo viridi scabro, ciliolatae, hispido-mucronatae. Pedunculi scaber- 

 rimi, infimus aliquando 3 poll, longus. Perigynium 1|-1| lin. longum, ^ lin. latum, 

 viride, demum ferrugineum, enervium, pilosum, brevi-stipitatum, squamam subaequans 

 vel longius. Achenium abortivum. 



Affinis C. arctat<B, Boott, satis herba pilosa, spicis erectis, perigyniis enerviis distincta. 



3. C. JUNCEA ; spicis 2-4 gracilibus erectis ferrugineo-purpureis ; terminali 

 mascula filiformi ; reliquis foemineis laxifloris subremotis infima pedun- 

 culata evaginata, stigmatibus 3, perigyniis triquetro-fusiformibus ore in- 

 tegro apice scabris squama ovata obtusa longioribus vel lanceolatam' 

 mucronatam subsequantibus. 



C.juncea, Willd. ; Kunth, Cyper. p. 468. 



C. miser, Buckley in Silliman's Journ. 45. 173. 



C. Rugeliana, Kunze in Herb. Hooker (ex parte). 



Hqb. In montibus Carolinae Sept., Buckley, Rugel. 



Subpedalis. Culmus filiformis, triqueter, apice scaber, basi foliatus, vaginisque purpureis 



