CYPERACEAE jlss. (Carcx.) 381 



bus; rosiro bidcniato, aniico profuii(lius fisso; stylo basi acquali. 



— Anicrica mcridionalis? IJonpland loy^it. — Spica coniposila 

 subpollicaris. Squamac ovatao, acuminatae, obtusiusculae, uni- 

 nerviae, mcmbranaccae, by«ilir«o-all>i<lae^ carina viridi, marginibus 

 ferrui^incis, glabrae. Uiriculi straminco-viriduli, angulis supcrne 

 viridibus; rosiro fcrrun-ineo. Acbcnium basi attennato-stipiia- 

 tum, obovato-pyriformc, coniprcssum, o))insangulum, obsoletis- 

 sime punctnlalum, straniinco-ilavidum, utriculo dimidio brevius, 

 basi styli icrminatum. 



b) Vulplnoideae. 



37. C. MUEHLENBERGH Schkiihr. Ciir. 2. 12. t. Tyy. fig. 

 178. Willd. Sjjec. 4. 231. Pursh. Flor. 1. 3G. MnehlenL Grum. 

 221. {Elliott Jiot. 2. 529?) Dewey in Silliimuis Americ. Jonrn. 

 8. 265. jfoi-j-cy i7i Schiveinitz. Dlonos^r. of Carex in Annalf! of 

 ihe Lyceura of New-lork. 1. 30-i. Spica androgyna, composita; 

 spiculis subquinis, ovatis, aliernis, approximatis. superne mas- 

 culis ; stigmatibus 2; fructibus subrotundo-ovatis, marginaiis, 

 compressis, bideniatis, ciliato-serratis ; squamis mucronatis. IVilld. 

 C. vulpinoidea Mich. Flor. 2. 69. {fde Pursh.) C. pinetorum 

 fVilld. herh. n. 17265. (^fde Schlechtend. in Linnaea 10. 265.) 



— America borealis. 7\t — Specimina novo-eboraccnsia mc- 

 cum a Jacquemontio sub nomine Caricis vulpinoideac Mich. com- 

 municaia dilVci^unt a ligura Scbkubriana: intlorcsceniia ampliore 

 utriculisque enerviis. Descriptio sequitur: Culmi inferne iri- 

 goni, glabri, superne plano-convexi, ad angulos scabri, siriati, 

 basim vcrsus foliali. Folia anguste graminoa, carinato-compli- 

 cata, carina margineque scabra, culmum subaequantia. Spica 

 composita oblonga, 1^-1 1: pollicem longa, bracteata; bracteis sc- 

 taceis, infima spicani vix superante. Spicae propriae complures, 

 sessiles, arcte conglomeratae, ellipiicae, apice masculae, 2-3 li- 

 iieas longae. Squamae femineae ovaiae, acuio-mucronaiae, uni- 

 uerviae, hyalino-albidae, carina viridi, ad laiera fuscesccntes. 

 Uiriculi ovaii, plano-convcxi, angulis angusie alatis, alis supcrne 

 bispidulo-scabris et viridibus, brcviier rostrati, subcoriacei, ener- 

 vii, glabri, siramineo-flavidi, squamam paulo superanies; rosiro 

 bidentaio, antice profundius fisso. Stylus bifidus, inferne bul- 

 boso-incrassaius, ima basi consirictus. Achenium subrotundum, 

 lcnticulari-compressum, subiilitcr punctulatum, stramineo-palli- 

 dum. Affinis C. cepbalophorae. (Torr.) C. Muehlenbcrgii Brongn. 

 a planta dcscripia longe difTert structura utriculi. Dewey (I. c. 

 7. 272. 10. 277.) et Torrey (1. c. 30i.) C vulpinoidcam Mich. 

 cum C. stipata conjunguni. Ellioit de hoc synonymo silet. 



38. C. SPARGAMOIDES Muehlenb. mss. Schkuhr Car. 2. 14. 

 /. Lll. fg. '142. (mediocris.) IVilld. Spec. 4. 237 et herb. n. 

 17160. {excl. specimine sinisfro folii 2.) Pursh. Flor. 1. 36. El- 

 liott. Bot. 2. 531. Muehlenb. Gram. 233. Dewey in Silliman's 

 Am. Journ. 8. 265. Torrey in Schweinitz. Monogr. of Carex in 



