154 Earicography. 
_ Flowers in April and May, in damp soils, in South-Care- 
lina—Elliott ; in pine forests, North-Carolina+Schw. and 
Torrey ; in Canada—Mx. 
This species is allied to C. virescens; (Elliott), and be- 
tween that and C. hirsuta, (Schw. and Torrey). A plant, 
which answers generally to this description, 1 have found in 
this town, in gravelly soil along a hedge—but have consider- 
ed it only a variety of C. hirsuta, as its fruit? is pubescent 
when young. There is scarcely a doubt that the C. triceps, 
described by Mr. Elliott, and the C, viridula in the Mon, 
are one species. But the C. triceps, Mx. seems very cer- 
tainly to be C. scirpoides, Schk. Though I have followed 
the Mon. in naming this speeies C. viridula, Mx. as | ant 
not confident it is found here; yet there is much reason for 
suspecting that the true C. viridula, Mx. is a very different 
plant, since Michaux states its affinity to C. triceps and-C. 
flava!l! 
97. C. Wormskioldiana. Hornemanii. 
 Schw. and Torrey no 
©. scirpotdea, Mx. Pursh. no. 1. 
C. Michauziit, Schw. An. Tab. 
Dioica planifolia distigmatica ?—spica oblonga unica im- 
bricato-cylindracea acuta ; fructibus ovalibus subrostratis 
dense pubescentibus ; squamis acutis. 
Culm 3—6 inches high, ne reund, smooth, sheathed at 
spike cylindric, imbricate, oblong, acute ; fruit densely pu- 
bescent, somewhat rostrate, oval, with acute and dark brown 
~ Found at Hudson’s Bay—Mx. Aleonist the!woods of 
Arctic America—Dr, Richardson. See App. Frank. Nar. 
ed. 2. 
From the description it is obvious that this plant is closely 
related to C, dioica, and imtermediate between that and _#s 
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variety, C. Davalliana, Wahl. It is, perhaps, only another 
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variety. 
