492 CYPERACEAE juss. (Caiex.) 



membranacoa, abbveviato-ovaia, subfriangulari. Spica mascula 

 cylindracea, pcdunculata, bipoUicaris et longior; femineae bipol- 

 licares. Squamae masculae obovato-oblongae, apice rotundatae, 

 mucronatae, hyalino-cinnamomeae, glabrae, carina trinervia, vi- 

 ridi : femineac ellipticae, apice rotundato- emarginatae, mucro- 

 nato-subaristatac, castaneo- fuscac, carina subtrinervia, viridi, 

 glabrae. Utriculi immaturi olivacco-virides, lineolis ferrugineis 

 obsiti. Ovarium oblongum , triangulare, ad unum latus versus 

 mediuni emarginato-incisum, Stylus trifidus. Acbenium obli- 

 que oblongum, triangulare, ad angulum rectilineum versus me- 

 dium emarginato-incisum (scmper?), fuscescens, basi styli ter- 

 minatum. C. ripariae ct C. paludosae similis et affinis. 



324. C. IRIDIFOLIA. Cacspitosa; culmo triangulari, folia- 

 to, glabro; foliis radicalibus subdisticbis, culmum aequantibus, 

 late lincaribus, glauco-viridibus, planis, margine scabris; spicis 

 masculis 3, approximatis ; fcmineis totidem, distantibus, cylin- 

 draccis ; supcrioribus breviter pedunculatis, erectiusculis ; infima 

 longe pedunculata, pendula; squamis masculis apice cmarginato- 

 biiobis, mucronatis ibique ciliatis; sligmatibus 3; utriculis ellip- 

 tico-oblongis, rostratis, rostro bifido, nervosis, membranaccis, 

 glabris, squamam ovatam apice emarginato-bilobam mucronatam 

 paulo superantibus. — Cap. b. spei. (Ruigtevaley ad fluvium, 

 locis umbrosis.) Drege legit. — Subquadripcdalis. Folia dimi- 

 dium polliccm lata, rigidula. Vaginae triangularcs, scabriuscu- 

 lae. Spicae masculae tenucs, bipollicares et longiores; femineae 

 sul)tripoIIicares. Squamae glabrae, apice cmarginato-bilobae, in- 

 ter lobos acutos ciliatos mucronatae ; masculae anguste oblon- 

 gae, byalino-pallidae, apicem versus roseo-fuscescentes ; femineae 

 ovatae, hyalino-albidae, apice fuscescentes, carina superne viridi. 

 Utriculi (immaturi) hinc planiusculi, inde convexo -obtusanguH, 

 virides; rostro bifido, lobis acutatis, Ovarium fecundatum obo- 

 vato-oblongum, triangulare, punclulatum, viridulum. Stylus basi 

 geniculato-inflexus, apice trifidus. Stigmata villosula, fcrruginea. 

 Aftinis C. paludosae. 



325. C. GLAUCESCENS ElUott. Bot. 2. 553. Deivey in Silli- 

 m(m's Americ. Journ. 11. 150. /. 31. Jig. 39. (Torrey hi Schwei- 

 nifz, Monogr. of Carex in Annals of ihe Jjyccutn of JV. York 

 1. 356?) Beyrich. herh. Boreali-Americ. Spicis fcmiiicis 3-i, cy- 

 lindricis, pedunculatis, dcmum pendnlis; (mascula solitaria, pe- 

 dunculata); corollis (utriculis) ovaHs, compressis, enorvibus, 

 glaucis, squamam emarginalam niucronatam subaequantibus; fo- 

 liis glaucescentibus. Ell. C. scmpcrvirens Sclnvcinitz. Anal Ta- 

 hle in Annals of the Lyceum of N. York 1. 70. (/ide Dewey.) 

 C. inundata IViltd, herh. n. 17300, Schlcchtend. in JAnnaea 10. 

 267. ■ — Carolina, Georgia, ad marginem paludum. (Beyricb.) — 

 Culmi bi|>edales et altiores, triangulares, infcrne foliati, superne 

 subscabriusculi. Folia anguste graminea, apicc angustato-subu- 

 lata, rigida, glaucescentia, striata, subtrinervia, marginc scabra, 



