306 Caricography. 
112. C. bicolor. Allion. 
Schw. An. Tab. Pers. no. 30. Rees’ Cyc. no. 76. 
Schw. and Torrey no. 27. 
Schk. tab. Aaaa fig. 181. 
Spicis androgynis inferne staminiferis ternis ovatis subsessi- 
libus, erectis ; fructibus distigmaticis obovatis obtusis sub- 
compressis ; squamis ovatis obtusis. 
“Culm 3—6 inches high—leaves half the length of the 
culm, linear ; fruit elliptic, or obovate obtuse, green, with ar 
ovate scale becoming black ; lower spike short-pedunculate 
and bracteate. . 
Found in Labrador, by a Moravian missionary, and sent 
to Mr. Schweinitz—agrees with the European plant. Mon. 
113. C.loliacea. L. 
Pers. no. 64. Rees’ Cyc. no. 33. Wabl. no. 47. 
Schw. and Torrey no. 29. 
C. tenella, Schk. Car. 1. p. 23. tab. Pp. fig. 104. 
Spiculis androgynis inferne staminiferis ternis, subdistanti- 
bus minutis paucifloris sessilibus; fructibus distigmaticis 
ellipticis vel ovatis obtusis subcompressis divaricatis ner- 
vosis ore integris, squama ovata acuta subduplo longioribus. 
nder, flexuous ; leaves narrow, linear, shorter than 
the culm, with brownish sheaths towards the base, bract long; 
setiform, flexuous, under lowest or two lower spikelets; 
staminate scale lanceolate ; spikelets three or four, small, ovate, 
sessile, remote, few-flowered, staminate at the base; fruit el- 
liptic, or ovate-ebtuse, somewhat compressed, a little diverg- 
ing, curved, entire at the orifice, with an ovate scale acute, 
and about half the length of the fruit. 
Found in the cedar swamp.in New-Durham, N. J.—Dr. 
Torrey ; also in Arctic America—Dr. Richardson. 
It is well known that Schk. considered C. tenella as the 
true C. loliacea, 
a C. stellulata. Schreb. 
=o C. echinata, Retz et al. 
: Spicul his androgynis inferne staminiferis subquaternis ova- 
S Femotiusculis sessilibus ; fructibus distigmaticis ovatis acu- 
