CYPERACEAE Jtss. (Carex.) 481 



cac, hyalino-albiilao, carina viritli, glal)rac; rcmineae ovato-oMon- 

 gae, acuniinato-subulalac, liorso viridcs, latcribus Iiyalino-aibi- 

 dae, glabrac, apicem vcrsus scabrac. Ulriculi oblongi, attciuia- 

 to-rostrati, basi subcuncati, biconvexi, postice convexiorcs, niem- 

 branacei, olivacco-viridcs , glabri; rostro liispidulo-scabro , ore 

 bidontato. Acbenium subcllipticum, apicc rotundatum, muticuni, 

 hiiic convexum, iiidc coiivcxo-obtusaiigulum, punctulatum, lus- 

 cescens. (Descr. juxta spccim. hcrb. AN illd.) C. Willdenowii 

 Deivey. est nil nisi varietas C. polytrichoidis Muehlenf*. , fide 

 Torrey 1. c. 297. 



299. C. PEDIINCULATA Muehlenb. mss. Schkuhr. Car. 2. 

 39. /. fHgs. /. 131. Witld. Spec. 4. 222 et herb. n. 17132. 

 Pursh. Flor. 1. 39. Muehlenb. Gram. 232. Dewey in SilUmans 

 Americ. Journ. 9. 259. Torrey*^ in Schweini/z. Monogr. of 

 Carex in Annals of the Lyceum of N. York. 1. 309. Spicis an- 

 drogynis, subquaternis, pedunculatis, remotissimis, supei-nc mas- 

 culis, crectis ; stigmatibus 3 ; fructibus obovatis, trlquetris, ob- 

 tusis; squamis oblongis, obtusis, mucronatis. IVilld. — Amc- 

 rica borealis. 2}. — Spicae 4 vcl 5, longissime peduncula- 

 tae, infima subradicalis, androgynae, apice masculae. Squa- 

 niae masculae oblongae, robuste mucronatae , unincrviae , 

 sanguineae, carina viridi, glabrae; feniiueae obovatae, api- 

 ce rotundatae, niucrouato-subaristatae, mucrone scabro, uni- 

 nerviae, glabrac, hyalino-albidae, carina viridi, Utriculi longitu- 

 dine squamae, oblique obovato-clavati, triangulares, ore biden- 

 tato, membranacei, viridcs, glabri, supernc ad angulos hispiduli. 

 Stylus profunde trifidus, castaneus. Stigmata valde elongata, 

 villosula. Achenium immaturum oblique ellipticum, triquetrum, 

 basi cuneato-attcnuatum , basi styli terminatum , fuscescens. 

 (Descr, secundum specimina herb. Willd.) Ilabitu accedit ad C. 

 alpestrem. (Willd.) 



300. C. MGRO-MARGINATA Schweinilz. Anal. Table in An- 

 nals of Ihe Lyceum of JV, l'ork 1. 68. Dewey in Sillimans 

 Americ. Journ. 10. 282. tab. II. Jlg. 27. Spreng. Syst. cur. 

 posi. 312. Spicis distinctis; spica staminifera solitaria, sessili; 

 spicis fructiferis tristigmaticis, binis, ovatis, scssilibus, stamini- 

 ferae arcte approximatis; pcdunculis longis, radicalibus, subter- 

 nis, e radice eadcm ortis; fructibus ovatis, subtriquetris, sub- 

 conico-rostratis, bidentatis, pubcsccntibus, squamae ovatae acu- 

 tiusculac acqualibus. Dew. — Pennsylvania. — Ab aliis pro 

 varietatc C. pedunculatae, ab aliis pro varictate C. marginatae 

 sumta, huic ob spicas et fructus, illi ob pcdunculos et folia si- 

 milis ; valde diversa tameii a C. pedunculata fructibus et squa- 

 mis, a C. marginata culmis, foliis, caet. (Dewey.) 



*") Specimen Torrej^anum a Muehlenbergiano herb. AVilld. haud 

 diliert. (Schlechtend. ia Linnaea lU. 259.) 



KUNTH. SyNOPS. II. [ 31 j 



