Caricography. 93 
BOTANY. 
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12. Carex curta. Gooden. 
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_éanescens, L. Flor. Suec. secundum Wahl. and 
Agardh. 
**C, canescens : spiculis basi masculis sub-approximatis _ 
qguinis, squamis subequantibus, capsulis subrotundo-ova- 
tis acutiusculis convexo-subconvexiusculis subobtus-angu- 
lis ore bidentato.” Wahl. No. 49. 
8. spiculis superioribus aggregatis, Se ong patentibus 
acutis Fatih eee subacutangu Wahl. 
m 16—24 inches high, triangular sie scabrous at the 
deo fin —lelees subradical, narrow, carinate, nearly the 
length of the culm—spikelets 4—6, ‘sub-cylindric, alternate, 
remotish ; stamens chiefly at the bas et a3 Py agly 
and a bristleform scabrous bract coms at the base of 
the lowest spikelet—fruit ovate Bese: ea Meses Brite 
and sub-acuminate, sub-scabrous, slightly two-toothed, 
convex on the upper and nearly flat on the lower side—scale 
Ovate, white, with a green keel, almost hyaline, varying 
from two thirds to the full length of the fruit and the longer 
scales more acute. The whole plant is sometimes of a 
green colour, and at others, especially when it grows in ver 
Wet places, of a pale ash-colour; and when mature, easil 
distinguished by its silvery spikelets. Flowers in May— 
found in wet places about woods in cespitose clusters. 
Stigm mas 2, 
AY 
his is a variable species, and the several descriptions 
differ in aslight degree from each other. Gooden. suppos- 
ed that his C. curta differed from C. canescens, i Both 
spectes, however, are considered the same by Wahl. and 
Agardh. If Linneus applied his name to different plants, 
