CYPERACEAE juss. (Carex.) 499 



YorJi 1. 338. Spica mascula solitaria; feminea subsexllora, sub- 

 solitaria, subcxserlc pcdunculata ; stigmatibus 3 ; fructibus ova- 

 tis, ventricosis, nervosis, rostratis, ore bipartitis^ squama ovata 

 longioribus. IVilld. 



^) major. C. intumesccns Rudge in Linn. Trftns. 7. 97, 

 /. 9. f. 3. ifidc Purs/i. *) 

 — Canada, Pcnnsylvania, Virginia, Carolina. 2(i — Sqnamae 

 masculac lanccolatac, acuto-submucronatae, byalino-albidae, dorso 

 fuscescentes, glabrae; fcmincae oblique oblongac, aristatae, uni- 

 ncrviae, liyalino-albidae, carina viridi, ;2;Iabrae; arista scabra. 

 Utricuii squaniam supcrantcs, OAato-elliptici, rostrati, rostro bi- 

 dcntato, dcntibus acutatis, mcmbranacei, ncrvosi, olivaceo-viri- 

 des, glabri. (Dcscr. secundum specimina bcrb. Willd.) In spe- 

 cimine a Jacquemontio accepto sjiicae fcmincae duae. Planta 

 Blliottiana dillert spicis femineis subquaternis, crectis, exscrte 

 pedunculatis, C. foUiculata Mich. Flor. 2. 171 est C. rostrata 

 ]\Iuehlenb., fide specim. 



337. C. Elliottii Torrey in SchweinUs. Monogr. of Carex 

 in Annals of Ihe Lyceum of N. York 1. 357. Dewey in Silli- 

 mans Americ. Journ. 11. 151. iah, M. fg. 40. Spica stamini- 

 fcra solitaria, pcrlongo-bracteata; spicis fructifcris tristigmaticis, 

 ternis, subi*otundis ; supcrioribus sessilibus ct suprema apice sta- 

 minifera; infima longissime jjcdunculata, ccrnua; fructibus ovatis, 

 subtriquetris, glabris, puncticulosis, nervosis, longo-rostratis, bi- 

 furcatis, squama ovata obtusa multo longioribus. Dewey. C. 

 castanea Ellioit. Bot. 2. 5-46, nec IVahlenb. C. fulva 3Iuehlenb, 

 Gram. 2i6. {fde Torrey et Dewey. l. c. 25. 144.) — ■ Geor- 

 gia. — Valde affinis C. folliculatae, differt fructibus et glumis 

 (Elliot<) ; babitu crassior. (Torrey.) 



338. C. OLIGOSPERMA Mich. Flor. 2. 174. Deivey in SilU- 

 man^s Americ. Journ. 11. 160. Foliis involuto-junceis culmisque 

 erectis; spicula feminea unica, globulari, scssili; bractea sctacea, 

 spicam masculam linearem quandoque dupliccm (plures, fide 

 Dewey.) subaequante; capsulis paucissimis, majusculis, turgide 

 ovatis, acutis. Mich. — Canada. — Affinis praecedenti, dif- 

 fert numero spicarum staminiferarum et forma fructuum. (Dewcy.) 

 Steudcl cum C. bullata Schk. compingit. 



339. C. Okesiana Dewey in Silliman's Americ. Joiirn. 

 14. 351. iub. Q. fg. 55. Spicis distinctis ; spica staminifera 

 solitaria, brevi-bracteata, oblonga, gracili; spicis fructiferis tri- 

 stigmaticis, subbinis, ovatis, distantibus, bracteatis ; inferiore 

 subpedunculata ; fructibus ovatis, subtriquetris, subinflatis, ner- 

 vosis, brevirostratis, glabris, ore intcgris, squama ovato-lanceo- 

 lata paulo longioribus. Dew. — America borealis. (White 

 Dlounlains.) — Paruni similis C. EUiottii, sed variis cbaracteri- 

 bus diversa. 



") A C. folliculata certe haud diversa. (Schlechtencl. inLinnaealO.263.) 



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