Caricography. 161 
triqueiris subcompressis nervosis longo-rostratis bifidis, squa- 
ma ovata longo-acuminata paulo majoribus 
ulm a foot high, triquetrous, glabrous, striate ; leaves 
finear-lanceolate, rough on the edge, nerved, shorter 
than the culm, glaucous, with striate sheaths ; bracts leafy, 
sheathing ; staminate spikes two to four, somewhat cylindric, 
approximate, whitish, lower ones sessile and shorter, with an 
oblong scale obtuse and white; pistillate spikes about four, 
sometimes two to five, alternate, cylindric, loose-flowered, 
with peduncles projecting considerably from the sheaths ; 
stigmas three; fruit ovate, nerved, white, glabsous, bifid, 
long-rostrate, ‘somes hiiit compressed ; pistillate scale ovate, 
long se ane a with a — keel, a ms shorter than 
at St. Louis, Missouri —Dr. L. C. 
There can be no doubt that this is the species no. 55 of 
Muh., or that it is not C. recurva, Gooden., the Cc. flacca, 
Schk. It appears to be a beautiful and distinct species. On 
the plant from Missouri, there are only two pistillate spikes— 
pistillate a3 Fete than the fruit before maturity. ad 
referred it t 5 Muh,—but it is evidently the same also 
as C. itt: 
102. C. aristata, R. Brown. 
Schw. and Torrey no. 104. 
Spicis staminiferis ‘binis vel pluribus ; spicis fructiferis tris- 
tigmaticis subternis cylindraceis distantibus brevi-peduncala- 
tis ; fructibus glaberrimis nervosis lon gissime rostratis | oe 
ide ; squamis aristatis ; foliis subtus et vaginis villosi 
Found by Dr. Richardson in Arctic Americ and said to 
be between C. bullata and C. is, Mon. See App- 
Fr ‘ar. ed. 2. 
This plant is entirely different from C. Torreyana, descri- 
bed in this Journal Vol. X. p. 47,—the name having been 
changed to this on account of the previous application of the 
former name to the species described above. After the pub- 
lication of C. Torreyana, the same plant was published under 
the name of C. Davisii in the Mon. ‘The latter name must 
therefore be given. up. E 
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