308 Caricograpliy. 
bright to a yellowish green. 
Flowers in May—grows about woods and hedges—com~ 
mon. 
On the specimens of C. muricata from England and Ger- 
many, the scale of the fruit is of anequal | sometimes 
scarcely exceeding half the length of the fruit In this par- 
ticular, our plant is like the European. The form of the 
plant, on tab. E. fig. 22, is not very common. 
The following variety is much more frequent. 
g. cephaloidea, {Mihi.) 
C. loliacea, Schk. Car. L. p. 22. tab. Ee fig. 9F, 
©. muricata Wahl. ay 
gatis subquinis arcte sessilibus; fructibus 
vatis, squama duplo longioribus. : 
The plant called C. loliacea, by Schk. Car. E. p. 22, he 
afterwards considered a variety of C. muricata. ‘The scale 
is shorter on our plant than is shown on his figure, Culm @ 
foot or more high, and in rich shaded hedges often four feet, 
and decumbent from its weight, acutely triquetrous; spike- 
lets commonly aggregated, yellowish ; fruit horizontal ; pis- 
tillate scale ovate, small, rarely exceeding half the length of 
th t; common. he spikelets are exceedingly like 
those on tab. Ee fig: 91, and the plant belongs to no other 
described, and is described by no botanist of our 
country unless under the name of C. muricata. 
Cc. divulsa, Gooden. is credited to our country by Pursh, 
and is considered by Wahl. as only a variety of C. muricata, 
—it-is,,at least, very near it. I have never fonnd a variety; 
wever, which was like the specimens of C. divudsa received 
from. ‘ope. One form. of C, sparganioides exactly resem- 
bles the figure of C. divudsa, Schk. tab. Dd. fig. 89, and is. 
