442 CYPERACEAE juss. (Caiex.) 



Co\igos;yn!\ Lesshig.lned. (/id.Fischer.) — Siiccia,Lappoiiia, niontcs 

 Saliynenscs. (Lcss.) 2\. — Squaniae masculae oblongae, obtusae, 

 uninerviae ncrvo apicc evanescentc, sanguincae, carina viridi, mar- 

 "•ine bvalino-aH)idac; rcniincae ovatac, acutae, sanguineo-ferrugincae, 

 maroinc livalino-pallidae, unincrviae, glabrae. Utriculi ovato-ellip- 

 tici vix rostcllati, orc emarginato, trigoni, pubescenti-hispiduli, 

 snuamam paulo supcrantes, fuscescentes. (Descript. sccundum 

 spccim. Wcrnicland.) C. globularis (Fo^/.) Schkithr. Caric. 1.85. 

 t. Gs;. fig. 93 est C. rotundata Wuhlenb. ct Schkuhr. l. c. 2. 76. 



'202. €. VARIA Muehlenh. mss. Schkuhr. Car. 2. 48. <. U%iu. 

 fv. 1()7. iVahlenb. in Act. Holm. 1803. 159. Pursh. Flor. 1. 

 40.' Muehlenh. Gram. 236. JStl. Bot. 2. 541. Willd. Spec. 4. 259 

 et Jierl. n. 17194. *) Torrey in Schweinilz. Monogr. of Carex 

 in Annuls of the Lyceum of ]Vetv-York 1. 329. Spica mascula 

 solitaria; femineis subternis, subapproximatis, scssilibus, subglo- 

 bosis; siigmatibus 3; fructibus subglobo?o-trique(ris, rostratis, 

 bidcntatis, pubesccnlibus , squama oblonga brevioribus; culmo 

 crccto. iViUd. C. pcnnsylvanica herb. Jacquemont. el Unionis ilin, 

 1835. (nec Lum.) 



fj) pcdiccUata Dewey l. c. C. varia Wahlenh. l. c. 



Amcrica borealis. — Squamae masculae ovato-obloiigae, apice 



rotundatac, unincrviac, ncrvo apicem versus evancscente, gla- 

 brac, superne sanguineo-ferrugineae, carina viridi ; femincae 

 ovato-cUipticae, acuto-submucronatae, iinincrviae, glabrae, dorso 

 albidac, carina viridi, lateribus sanguinco-fuscae. Utriculi lon- 

 gitudine squamac, obovato-subclavati, apicc attenuato-rostrati, 

 trigoni, mcmbranacci, obsolctc nervosi, nervis duobus pcrspi- 

 cuis, villosuli, virides; orc bidcntato, sanguinco. Stjlus trili- 

 dus, cAscrtus, basi parum incrassatus, deciduus. Stigmata lon- 

 gissima, villosula, fusccscentia. Acbenium subrotundo-obova- 

 tum, trigonum, punctulatum, immaturum viridulum. (Dcscript. 

 juxta spccinicn Unionis itin.) Variat forma utriculi ct squama- 

 rulii. Vidi in spcciminc Jacquemontiano ut sequitur: Squamae 

 masculae acutac ; fcmineae acuiato-mucronatae. Utriculi ovato- 

 subglubosi, apice attenuato-rostrati. Achenium subglobosum, 

 liucolis tribus proniincntibus aequidistantibus llavidis nolatum, 

 laeve, straminco-fusccsccns. Simillima C. pilulifcrae et uti iio- 

 bis fcrc videtur eadem. (Schlechtend. in Linnaca 10. 262.) 

 Sprengcl (Syst. 3. 817) cum C. pcnnsylvanica conjungit C. va- 

 riam Muchlenh.., C. strictani Ijum., C. miliarcm Mich. ct C. vir- 

 giniauam Smilh in Jiees'' Cycl. 



203. C. COLLi:CTA Dewey in Sillimans Americ. Journ. 11. 

 314. luh. N. fig. 44. Beck. Flor. 439. Spica staminifcra soli- 



*) Speciniina pertinent ad hanc spccicni, quae misit Torrey siib 

 nonijniltu.s : C. pcnnsylvanica var. MiichhMiberj;ii (ad (iiiam C. variam 

 synonyiuon landat), C, pcnnsylvanica (ad qiiam C. inarginatam citat) 

 et C- alpestii.s Schir. cl Torrey. (nA (piain C. Davisii Detvei/, non Schw. 

 Aj^iuiiyniun udligutur.) Schleclitend. iu Liunaeu 10. 201. 



