CYPERACEAE jlss. (Carex.) 457 



rey. et Dewet).) — Amorlra borcalis. (Clicrolice Conniry, Mis- 

 sonri.) Ex iconc C. ancipiti et C. laxillorae ainnis vitlctur. 



239. C. L.VXIFLORA Lam. Enrijcl. 3. 378. Sch/cuhr. Car. 

 2. 69. /. Kkk. Jlg. 111. TrUld. Spec. 4. 281 el herb. n. 17234. 

 Pnrsh. Flor. 1. 43. {Ell. Bot. 2. 519?) Muehlenh. Gram. 251. 

 Toi-rey in SchweinUz. Monogr. of Care.v in Annals of the Ly- 

 cenm of N. York 1. 348. Dewey in Silliman's Americ. Journ. 

 10. 31. Spica mascula solitaria; femincis 3, scx-octofloris, 

 distantibus ; infima rcmotc pcdnnculata; sti^niatibus 3; fructi- 

 bus oblon^is, vcntricosis, obtusis, s([uama ovata mucronata nia- 

 joribus. l^Villd. C. paupercula Mich. Flor. 2. 172. (^fide Pnrsh.') 

 C. grisea IVnhlenh. m Act. Jlolm. 1803. 154. (teste Wahlenh. 

 Lapp. 249.) C. anccps IVilld. herh. n. 17227. /o/. 2. -- Pcnn- 

 sylvania, Virginia, Carolina. 2\< — Squamae masculac oblon- 

 gae, apicc rotundatac, unincrviae, nervo apicc cvancscente, gla- 

 brae, hyalino-albiclae, carina viridi; femineac ovato-subrotundac, 

 acuminato-mucroiiatae, subaristatae, glabrae, tlorso viriues, late- 

 ribus byalino-albidae. Utriculi oblongi, trigoni, apicem versus 

 parum attcnuati, ore integro, subcoriacei, nervosi, glabri, oliva- 

 ceo-viridcs, squamam superaiites. Acbcnium subrotundo-ellipti- 

 cum, basi attcnuatum, rudimento styli terminatum, triangulare, 

 punctnlatum, olivaceo- fuscum. (Descr. secundum spccimina 

 VVilld.) Pursh synonymon Michauxii iterum (p. 41.), cum dubio 

 quidcm, ad C. oligocarpam ducit. 



240. C. HlTCHCOCKIANA Dewey in Sillim.an's AmeiHc. Journ. 

 10. 274. t. E. fig. 17. Beck. Flor. 442. Spicis disiinctis; 

 spica stamiiiifera solitaria, erecta, pcdunculata ; spicis fructiferis 

 tristigmaticis, subtcrnis, crectis, exserte pedunculatis, pauciflo- 

 ris, persparsifloris; infima remota ; fructibus subtriquetro-ovali- 

 bus, inflatis, utrinquc altcrnatis, apice recurvis, striatis, cum ro- 

 stro brevi truncato et aperto, squamam oblongam vel ovatam 

 mucronatam subaequantibus; culmis, foliis bracteisque scabro- 

 pubescentibus. Dewcy. — America borealis. — Satiate viri- 

 dis. Culmus 16-24-poIlicaris foliaque scabro-pubescentia. Affi- 

 iiis C. laxiflorae, sed distincta fructibus ct pubescentia. (Dewcy 

 ct Becli.) A Beckio inter species stiginatibus 3 instructas 

 ponitur. 



241. C. GRANULARIS Muehlenh. mss. Schkuhr. Car. 2. 67. 

 t. Vvv.fig. 169. Willd. Spec. 4.279 et herh. n. 17229. Pursh. 

 Flor. 1. 42. {e.xcl synon. Mich.) Muehlenh. Gram. 247. ElHott. 

 Bot. 2. 548. Dewey in SiUiman's Americ. Jonrn. 7. 272. 11. 

 156. Torrey *) in Schweinitz. 31onogr. of Carex in Annals of 

 the Lyceum of N. York 1. 349. Spica mascula solitaria; fe- 

 mineis 3, remotis; duabns inferioribus pedunculatis; stigniafibus 

 3; fructibus globoso-ovatis, ncrvosis, vcntricosis, brcvissiinc ro- 



*) Specimina Torreyana sunt eadem ac Willdenowiana. (Schlech- 

 tenil. in Linaaea 10. 26J.) 



