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Caricography. 97 
Culm 6—12 inches high, scabrous above, leafy towards 
the base; leaves linear, shorter below, upper ones long as 
the culm, glaucous and scabrous; spikelets 3—5, alternate, 
the lowest supported by a scabrous bract longer than the 
or with a longer beak; staminate scale ovate obtuse; pis-~ - 
tillate scale ovate, shortly acute, sometimes quite obtuse in 
maturity, yellowish white with a green keel, and about half 
the length of the fruit. The fruit is diverging and often 
nearly horizontal when mature. The spikelets before ma-~ 
turity much resemble those of some species of scirpus,— 
whence the specific name. Stigmas 2. 
In wet places in woods it is often very small, and very 
difficult to be ascertained, when it is in flower. Flowers 
in May,—found in wet situations. 
_ This species greatly resembles C. stellulata, Schreb. as 
figured by Schk. tab. C. fig. 14. and Muh. asks whether it 
is sufficiently distinct from it. By Schk. and others, they 
are considered different species. ‘The capsules of C. sied- 
ulata, are not cordate at the base, are nearly entire at the 
beak, acuminate, and more diverging. C. scirpoides is very 
distinct from other American species, unless it be C. viri- 
i Mx. which, it is hoped, will ere long be better 
<nown, 
17. C. Tenera. (Mih 
ney ; leaves linear-lanceolate, shorter below, and much 
shorter than the culm. Jn maturity the plant is sub-pro- 
cumbent. The whole plant is light green except the spike- 
tets, which are of a yellowish brown colour like those of 
Vox. VIII.—No. I. 13 
