116 Caricis Species Nove vel minus cognite, 
2. C. SuruvaNTI; spicis 4-6 cylindricis gracilibus ; masculà 1; foemineis 
4 rariüs 3-5 laxifloris erectis pedunculatis superioribus approximatis 
infima remota exserté pedunculata basi attenuata sæpè compositá, stig- 
matibus 3, perigyniis ellipticis brevi-rostratis ore integro vel emarginato 
viridibus pellucidé punctatis pilosis enerviis squamá ovatá ciliatà his- 
pido-mucronata albida nervo viridi paululum longioribus. 
C. Sullivantii, B. Bot. Exc. to the Mountains of North Carolina; Gray in 
Silliman's Journ. 42. p. 29. 
Hab. In sylvaticis, prope Columbum, Ohionis, Americe 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, rariüs 
12 poll. longa. Folia 2-33 lin. lata, culmo breviora, pilosa. Bracteæ pilose ; infima 
vaginata, foliacea, culmum zequans vel multüm brevior; superiores setacez. Vagina 
3 lin. ad 13 poll. longa, albida, szepé punctis minimis ferrugineis maculata. Spica 
mascula semper solitaria, 7-15 lin. longa, vix lineam lata, sessilis vel brevi-pedunculata ; 
squamze obtuse, muticz, apice ciliolata, pallidé castanez, margine hyalinz, nervo 
scabro. Spice fæmineæ szepiüs 4, rariüs 3-5 vel 2, laxiflore, 1-1} poll. longe, 1-12 
lin. late; superiores approximato-contigue, infima aliquando intervallo 6-12 poll. 
longo remota, seepé basi spiculá alterá minori composita, suprema rariüs geminata ; 
squamze albidz, nervo viridi scabro, ciliolatze, hispido-mucronatze. Pedunculi scaber- 
rimi, infimus aliquando 3 poll. longus. Perigynium 13-17 lin. longum, j lin. latum, 
viride, demüm ferrugineum, enervium, pilosum, brevi-stipitatum, squamam subzequans 
vellongius. Achenium abortivum. | 
Affinis C, arctate, Boott, satis herbá pilosá, spicis erectis, perigyniis enerviis distincta, 
3. C. JUNCEA; spicis 2-4 gracilibus erectis ferrugineo-purpureis; terminali 
masculà filiformi; reliquis foemineis laxifloris subremotis infimá pedun- 
culatà evaginatà, stigmatibus 3, perigyniis triquetro-fusiformibus ore in- 
tegro apice scabris squamá ovatá obtusá longioribus vel lanceolatam 
mucronatam subzequantibus. 3 
C. juncea, Willd. ; Kunth, Cyper. p. 468. 
C. miser, Buckley in Silliman’s Journ. 45. 173: 
C. Rugeliana, Kunze in Herb. Hooker (ex parte). 
Hab. Yn montibus Carolinæ Sept., Buckley, Rugel. | 
Subpedalis, Culmus filiformis, triqueter, apice scaber, basi foliatus, vaginisque purpureis 
