264 Caricography. 
BOTANY. 
eo Xi Sree i f continued from Vol. VAIL. p 
99.) Communicated to the Lyceum of Nat. Hist. if 
the Berkshire Medical Institution. By Prof. Curster 
Dewey. 
20. Carex bromoides. Schk. 
ae Pursh. Eaton. 
: Schk. tab. Xxx. fig. 175. 
© Spicutis pluribus eri oblongis erectis, suprema infer- 
ne mascula, ceterjs femineis vel androgynis inferne mascu- 
lis; fructibus erectis lanceolatis acuminatis ead nervosis 
” difidis, squama ovato-lanceolata duplo longioribu 
Culm 10—18 inches high, leafy towards the bis: leaves 
linear, scabrous on the edges, shorter than the calm; bract 
scabrous, lanceolate, awned, supporting the lowest spikelet, 
+h about its length; stigmas two; spikelets all pistillate, 
all staminate, the highest staminate below, and the others 
pistillate, androgynous above and below, and staminate in 
the middle, or the middle ones ses below, havi 
single staminate plant at their : 
Though the common aoe ce of this speci 
shown on the fig. of Scbk., the variations of the spik 
eats eof it, Mub.ren 
androgynous spikes 
are staminate below, it shoat be roan tds as the descrip- 
tion of Muh. requires, from the section in which it is place 
next following section, It occurs 
in small bogs, or cesp usters, and is readily recogni- 
zed after it is once found. Pursh says it grows ‘ in 
fields and woods ;” Br “according to Muh., it inhabits 
marshes or wet situations, in which alone have I found it, 
t known of its being iaape, in the Northern States. Flow- 
yearly in May—common 
