CYPERACEAE jlss. (Caiex.) 413 



nilz. Monogr. of Carex in Annals of the Lyreum of N, York- 1. 

 361. Dewey in Silliman''^ Am. Journ. 10. 265. Biehersl. Flor. 

 2. 390. Lcdeb. Flor. 4. 222. Spicis inasculis 2-3; femineis 

 subqualernis, subpedunculalis^ subnu<antibus, cylindraceis , re- 

 iuotis; stigmatibus 2; fructibus oblongis, brcvissime rostcUatis, 

 ore inten;ro, pertuso, squamam oblongam acutam subaequanti- 

 bus. Willd. C. acuta /> Linn. Spec. 2. 1388. C. gracilis Curf. 

 Lond, 4. /. 62. {ftde Smilh. el Schk.) Hosi. Austr. 511. Hoffm. 

 Germ. 333. Cand. Gall. 3. 115. C. virens Thuill. Far. 1. 489. 

 (Jide Cand.) Vignea acuta Reichenh. Germ. 61. 



^) erecta Detvey l. c. (C. virginiana Rees. Cycl. n. 100.) 



y) sparsiflora Dewey l. c. 



— Europa, Caucasus, America borealis, Labrador. 2|i — Squa- 

 mac masculae spatliulato-lanceolatae, acutiuscuiae, uninci"viae, 

 sanguineo-ferrugineae, carina viridula, glabrae ; femineae ovato- 

 lanceolatae, obtusae, uninerviao, atro-purpurea«, carina viridi, 

 glabrae. Utriculi immaturi obovati. compressi, brevissime ro- 

 stellati, membranacoi, enervii , subtilissimc punctulato-scabrati, 

 stramineo-flavidi, squamam subaequantes ; rostello truncato. Sty- 

 lus bifidus. Stigmata longe exserta, villosa. Achenium imma- 

 turum obovatum, compressum, basi styli torminatum. Nil nisi 

 forma paludosa Caricis caespitosac. Breitei' buc ducit C. mutabi- 

 lem IVitld., quam Schiiuhr cum C. pendula conjungit. C. recurva 

 Willd, herb. n. 17284 fol. 8 (ex America boreali) est forsan for- 

 ma C. acutae. 



113. C. MoENCHIANA Wenderoth in Flora 1803. 718. llop- 

 pe, Caric. 41. Spicis mascuHs binis ternisve, basim vcrsus fe- 

 mineis, breviter pcdunculatis, ercctis, acutis; fructibus ovatis, 

 obtusis, glabris, glumis lanceolatis acutis brevioribus. Wender. 

 C. ambigua JMoench. Meth. 325. Vignea Moenchiana Heichenb. 

 Germ, 61. — Hassia. — Spicae omnes masculae; infima ad 

 basim floribus nonnuilis fcmineis instructa. (Hoppe.) C. acutae 

 proxima, sed diversa culmo glabro. Leers in illa item spicam 

 unicam ex infimis sacpe androgynam obscrvavit. (Hoppe.) Sprcn- 

 gel (Syst. 3. 827) cum C. recurva Good. (C. glauca Scoj^.) con- 

 jungit. 



114. C. AQUATILIS Wahlenb. in Acf. Ilolm. 1803. 165. 

 Willd Spec. 4. 304 et herb. 17296. Schkuhr. Car. 2. 29. (Dew. 

 in Sillimans Americ. Journ. 10. 267. tab, E. fig. 16. 14. 354? 

 Jieck. Flor. 443?) Spicis subsessilibus, sublincaribus, incras- 

 salo-clavatis; stigmatibus 2; fructibus ellipticis, brevissime ro- 

 stratis, ore integerrimis, squamam rotundatam acquantibus. 

 WiUd. 



/5) C. nardifoHa Wahlenb. l. c. 



— Lapponia. (America borealis?) 2\> — Squamae masculae 

 .subspathulato-oblongae, obtusae, unincrviae, atro-sanguineae, ca- 

 rina viridi-pallidae, glabrae; femineae oblongae, acutiusculae, 

 unincrviac, nervo apicem versus evanescente, atro-sanguiuco- 



