(148 Caricography- 
elliptic, ventricose, triquetrous, and most obtuse, (Willd.} 
and its seale oblong-lanceolate, or ovate-acute ; the fruit of 
the latter is oblong, triquetrous, obtuse, ablicate at the ori- 
fice, with an oblong, obtuse, awned scale ; the former grows 
in marshes; the latter in moist meadows or pastures, or along 
hedges, but never in our marshes. C. digitalis is eclated 
(Muh.) to C. oligocarpa, and its leaves are rather broad; C. 
gracillima has no marked affinity to C. oligocarpa, and its 
leaves are not broad in respect of the height of the plant or 
of those of the species generally. The highest spike of C. 
86. €. dasyearpa Muh. 
Muh. n 
Ell. no. oo wes 12, fig. 4, 
cis fructiferis tristigmaticis subternis su ubapprox ximatis in 
gis alternis, inferioribus subpeduneulatis ; fructibus ovato- 
triquetris vel ieee villosis nervosis, squama. ovata acu- 
minata longioribu 
‘€ulm a foot or more in height, glabrous, triqnetrous 5 ; 
leaves linear-lanceolate, glabrous, narrow, shorter t 
ise bracts linear, surpassing the eulm, with very short 
sheaths ; staminate ian smgle, nearly sessile, small, with a 
a nate, shorter than. the fruit. 
: > ndeteeg Pe on Bese = etcsebens oe 
Spi ger than t of C. vi : 
4 Se in ace. Natl C.—Schw. é 
