150 Caricography. 
leaves short and subradical; bracts loosely sheathing and 
scarcely forming a leaf; the angles of the fruit rather acute. 
and scabrous above the middle. This species may ge 
inhabit the mountainous parts of the northern States. The 
characters clearly distinguish this plant from C. atrata. 
89. C. filifolia. Nuttall. 
Nutt. Gen. II. p. 204. 
Schw. and Torrey, no. 9. 
Spica unica androgyna superne staminifera subcylindra- 
eea acuta; fructibus subglobosis ore —— cum squama 
retusa ; foliis filiformibus involutis subulati 
Cespitose, scarcely a hand breadth high, (Nutt.) ; leaves 
radical, surpassing the culm, filiform, spreading ; fruit. six to 
eight at the base of the spike, lax, tie pubescent, with 
an oblique orifice, (Schw. and Torr 
Common on dry plains and secioatly hills Bes the Missouri 
—Nutt. Also in Arctic America—Dr. Richardson. 
90. C. pleidlontens: Elliott. 
re Sketch II. p. 553. Mon. no. 94. 
C. sempervirens. Schw. An. T 
Spica scadiaiifers solitaria cylindracea scimenlenes ; Spi 
eis fructiferis tristigmaticis subternis pedunculatis cylindra- 
ceis demum pendulis ; ; fructibus ovatis triquetris compressis 
glaueis subrostrato-bifidis, squamz ovate peremarginate 
mucronate subzequali! 
Culm about two feet ‘high, glabrous, cn scabrous 
above, triquetrous ; leaves narrow, scabrous on the edge, 
shorter than the culm, lower ones glaucous ; gp renters spike 
single, cylindric, long pedunculate, with ovate, emarginate 
and mucronate scales tawny with a green keel ; pistillate 
spikes three or four, cylindric, with long and slender sheath- 
less peduncles recurved in maturity ; stigmas three ; fruit 
te, deeply 
ginate, mucronate, shorter than the fruit, oa its mucronate 
—— extending beyond the fruit. 
. rs in April and May—grows about ponds in ne 
Merrene-—Eliot Also, near Augusta, Geo. s 
This aos is adopted from Mr. Elliott’s Sketch : it ap- 
pears to eeeay distinct. On my specimens the eccitiagir ts 
