156 Caricography- 
strate and excurved at the apex, entire at the orifice ; pis- 
tillate scale ovate, cuspidate, varying from half to the whole 
a di h of the fruit. Colour of the plant bright and deep 
Wists in April and May—common in this part of the 
country in rather dry and open woods and along upland 
hedges, lees Mts.—Schw.—also in Virginia. 
This is a very distinct and beautiful species, and to those 
who are familiar with both, there seems no reason for con- 
founding it with C. anceps. This has been often done, and~ 
the fig. tab. Kkkk 195 is referred by ma to this species, 
while it belongs unquestionably to C, anceps. In the Mon. 
there is no reference to Schk. tab. U. fie. 40, although there 
can be no doubt that the fig. was drawn from a true, though 
imperfect specimen of C. plantuginea. The plant was culti- 
vated at Paris Se seed supposed to be obtained from S. 
America, and was in the Herbarium of Thunberg, ob- 
tained from Virginia as we learn from Wahlenberg. The 
tab. M. of Schk. is evidently a mistake,—as Wahl. refers his 
plant to tab. U. fig. 70 Schk. - Whether Willdenow possessed 
the plant may be doubtful; yet he bad other sources for ob- 
taining it than the hand of Muhlenberg; liberal as that seems 
to have been in sending him the eOntices, af our cou et 
Spica s ) aria erecta sub-pedunculata ; spicis 
pil sores tristigmaticis subternis cylindraceis eer su- 
perioribus subsessilibus saepe approximatis, inferioribus sub- 
longo-exserte pedunculatis ; 3. fructibus . subrotundo-~ovatis, 
apice recurvis brevissime ssime rostratisque integris nervosis, squae- 
_ ta ovata acuminata vix duplo longioribus. 
Culm 8—16 inches high, erect or subdecumbent, trique- 
trous, smooth ; leaves liear-lanceolate,’ nerved, glaucous, 
long as the culm, shorter below, rather seh, slightly scabrous 
on the edge ; bracts long, leafy, much s ng the culm, 
with whitish <— ee spike single, often short, 
» triquetrous, usually short pedunculate, very 
tillate above or at all, with a lanceolate. rene whitish as 
and green on. the keel; pistillate spikes three or four, ob- 
