a Caricograph y. 
is subtriquetris a ga squama ovata subemargi- 
nata aang breviori 
2—3 feet high, stalneiadiones ees purple below, 
‘heont above, glabrous ; leaves linear-lanceolate, v 
long, somewhat glaucous, scabrous on lie margin, nerved, 
dotted, sheathing towards the base ; bracts long, leafy, with 
sheaths inclosing the upper peduncles; staminate spike sin- 
gle eres three (EBs) cylindric, terminal one long, pe- 
dunculate, obtuse, with one oblong scale mucronate and 
brown ; pistillate spikes -_ to six, two or three inches long, 
cylindric, erect, staminate at the summit, inclosed-peduncu- 
late except the rsersg ee pedal’ is sheathed - a8 base ; 
stigmas ; fruit ovate, indistinctly nerved, 
somewhat triquetrous, short-cleft orifice, siseco; ; pastas 
scale ovate, obtuse, sometimes distinctly emarginate, mucro- 
nate, brown, a little longer than the fruit. 
Flowers in May—found in Carolina and Rnechisieiduh: 
and Ell. N. Carelina—Schw. Muh. remarked the resem- 
nianen between this plant and C. filacca, Schreb., the C. re- 
starve; Ghoddenr-—but the two seem to be clearly distinct, 
100. C. oligosperma: Mx. 
Mich. F'l. vol. Lf. p. 174. 
~ Spicis staminiferis pluribus ; spica fructifera tristigmatics 
unica globulari sessili ; fructibus turgide ovatis majuseulis 
y Michaux, © whom: the world is in- 
debted for all its knowledge of the plant. Culm and leaves 
erect ; bract supporting the pistillate spike setaceous, as long 
as, or longer than, than the staminate spike. The description 
corresponds to no other known ‘species, and the plant will 
doubtless. be found again in Canada, and perhaps im the 
northern part of the U. States. It is related to C. Elliottii, 
differs in the number of staminate spikes, and i in the orm 
of i its free. 
EW (C@hereiogiincai Blin nc : 
Schw. Anz yas ion and For Tor: =~ 112. pl. 25. fig. 1. 
uh. no. 
Spicis stameniieda subternis selina ceis, suprema ma- 
pore et fredunculata ; -spicis tristigmaticis quaternis 
subloxifloris diseonnibdins| ‘exserte et: wari wird 
superne stame niferis; fructibus.ovatis ih ge oe 
