Caricography. 31f 
eblong, i and short-pedunculate, nearly black, rather 
densely flowered ; stigmas two ; fruit ovate, or oblong-oval, 
names rather compressed, entire at the orifice, slightly pu- 
bescent 3 ee scale ovate, obtuse, black, and about the 
length of the 
Note. A description of C. Willdenowia, vol. IX. p. 258, 
from perfect specimens, here follows, 
C. Willdenowii. Schk. 
Muh., Pursh, Eaton, Pers. no. 5. 
Ell. no. 4. Schw. and Torrey no. 5. 
pair tab. Mmm, fig. 145. 
Jamesti, Schw. An. Tab. 
Culmis vel | pedanedi 1—3 ex radice eadem ; spica unica 
superne staminifera basi ovata; fructibus 3—6. tristigmati- 
cis ovato-globosis rostratis subinflatis subtriquetris ; squamis 
ovatis acutis ere foliiformibus longissimis spica per- 
multo longioribu: 
Obs. Variat sche cum spica staminifera distincta. 
Culm 3—12 inches high, one to the sam 
sheaths, acutely. triquetrous, scabrous above Tax. 
lowest like common peduncles and shorter ; leaves subradical, 
linear, rough on the edge, flat, striate, oe much longer 
than the culm, with brownish sheaths ; spike single, stami- 
nate above, ovate at the base, in maturity + ; staminate flowers 
about six, sometimes on a separate spike, with short and eb- 
tuse scales, whitish on the edges ; stigmas three ; fruit three 
to six, ite eae glabrous, slightly triquetrous, some in- 
flated, rostrate, nearly entire at the orifice, before maturity 
ieiseniatt: or "ovate-lanceotate, the beak scabrous under a 
lens ;_pistilate scale very various, the upper ovate and acute, 
and about the length of the fruit ; the lower leaf-like, Lng 
linear-lanceolate, many times longer than the spike. Colo 
of the plant light green 
ame in She grows in dry woods in Penn.—Mubh. ; 
also in Ohio.—Dr. E. Jam 
The figure of Schk. was ies from a specimen, upon 
which the fruit was not mature, and the fruit is not represent- 
ed sufficiently globose at the base, but as too nearly lan 
late. The leaf-like scales of the lower fruit are not drawn 
ef near the length which they often have. 
