428 CYPERACEAE juss. (Carex.) 



ticis, squama obtusa brevioribus ; involucro diphylio. JVUld. — 

 Italia supcrior (Mons Baldo), Tyroiis. 2^ — Squamae mascu- 

 lae oblongae, obtusae, hyalino-albidae, carina viridi, glabrac; fc- 

 mineac late ovatae, obtusac, albidae, carina viridi, dorso ferru- 

 gineo-punctulatae, glabrae. Utriculi squamam paulo superantes, 

 oblongi, apice obtusi et brcvissime rostellati, rostello truncato, 

 trigoni, striato-multinervii, fuscescentes, glabri. Achenium ob- 

 longam, basi styli mucronatum, triangulare, subtilissime punctu- 

 latum, fcrrugineum, utriculo fere dimidio brevius. (Dcscript. se- 

 cundum specimina baldensia.) 



4) Spicae solitariae, androgynae, infcrne masculac. 



162. C. saUARROSA Linn. Spec. 2. 1380. Willd. Spec. A. 

 215. Schkuhr. Car. 2. 37. Muehlenh. Gram. 231. Dewey in SU- 

 liman's Americ. Journ. 7. 270. tab. J. Jig. 29. Torrey in Schwei- 

 iiitz. 3Ionogr. of Carex in Annals of Lyceum of N. York 1. 299. 

 t. 27. f. 2. Spica (androgyna, inferne mascula) simplici, cras- 

 sissima, oblongo-cylindrica ; fructibus imbricatis, horizontalibus, 

 glabris, subsquarrosis, apice bidentatis, glumis lanccolatis lon- 

 gioribus. Torr. C. typhina 31ich. Flor. 2. 169. (test. Ell, De- 

 wey. et Torr. *) 



|5) typhinoidcs Dewey l. c. 11. 316. C. typhinoides Schivei- 

 nitz. Anal. Table in Annals of the Lyceum of N. York 

 1. 66. 

 — America borealis. 2\. — Culmi triangulares, foliati, superne 

 scabri. Folia graminca, plana, rigida, margine scabra. Spica 

 tcrminalis, solitaria (rarius geminae, parum remotac), elliptico- 

 oblonga, obtusa, androgyna, basi mascula; fructifcra ifquarrosa, 

 subpollicaris. Squamae femincae oblongae, acutiusculac, glabrae, 

 liyalino-albidac, carina viridi. Stylus clongatus, trifidus. Stig- 

 mata ferrugineo-castanca. Utriculi obovato-cuncati, longe rostrati, 

 trigoni, inflati, mcmbranacci, obsoletc ncrvosi, straminco-fusces- 

 centes, glabri, squam.am fere duplo superantcs, maturi horizon- 

 talcs; rostro bidcntato. Achenium utriculo triplo brevius, ovato- 

 oblongum, apice in stylum attcnuatum, triangularc, punctulatum, 

 pallidc castaneuni. (Dcscript. juxta specimina a Jacquemontio 

 sub nominc C. typhinae Mich. acccpta.) C. ampuUaceae parum 

 aiiinis. 



5) Spicac complures, capitato - aggrcgatac, androgynae, inferne 



masculae. 



163. C. MACROCEPnALA IVilld. hcrh. n. 17252. Spreng. 

 Syst. 3. 808. Spicis androgynis, inrcrne masculi.s, aggrcgatis, 

 ovato-capifatis; stigmatibus binis (rectius tcrnis?); fructibus 

 ovatis, acuminatis, bicuspidatis , marginc cartilaginco - scrratis. 



*) Pursh (Flor. 1. 35.) C. typhinam ud C. cephulophoraui ducit. 



