318 Caricography. 
C. cespitosa, Vol. X. p. 2 
Lower pistillate spike often with one 2 to three branches at 
its base. 
so pseudo-cyperus, Vol. TX. p. 7 
The staminate spike is sometimes 2 sdogy nous having a 
cluster es pistillate flowers at the summit 
C. Be Vol. XI. p- 157, 
or, Dewey, Vol. XI. tab. N. fig..4 
Spiculis parvis subsenis obovatis ; fructibus aes acumi- 
natis compressis alatis serrulatis, squamam ovatam acutam 
subzequantibus. 
n this variety, found in cultivated fields, the spikelets are 
much smaller than in the common one, less globose, nearly 
obovate, more remote in proportion to their size ; the fruit is 
siaallon, less round, less broadly winged, and about equal i in 
length to the ovate and acute scale. Although this variety 
= ed pretty remote from the common form, there is full 
n to consider it only as a variety, 
Ficus of the following art accompany this ie : 
Vol. 148 
b. M. fig. 38. C. dasyc XI. 
les 8 SE XI. p. 150 
40—Elliottii XI. p. 151 
41—verrucosa XI. p. 159 
ae. ichocarpa 
turbinata XI. p. 159 
Tab. N. fig. 43—Halseyana XI. p. 315 
44—collecta XI. p. 314 
45—straminea » minor XI. p. 318 
46—plantaginea XI. p. 155. 
47—anceps X. p. 36. 
a. Broad radical leaf. 
b. N arrow SS long hyemal leaf. 
ulin 
pu 
B polsstachi XI. p. 166 
9—tet: XI p. 312 
Note. This Cavicouraphy contains descriptions of one 
hundred and twen echo species of Carex found in North- 
America. It caine the fifty-nine species described by 
a ilenberg, except his . polymorpha, which is probably 2 
y of C. Buxbaumii. In the Flora of Pursh, sixty-four 
spa of Carex are described. Of these, C. arenaria, ©. 
C. leporina, C, ovalis, and C. distans, have not 
