62 Caricography. 
- Culm 18--30_ inches high, acutely triangular, very 
‘scabrous above, furrowed and striate on the sides, 
leafy ; leaves linear, three ike she channeled; striate, 
nearly as Jong as the culm, shorter below 
brous, striate, white and arenitieasity on the side of the 
stipule ; stipule ovate, acute; spike decompound, two 
inches oe spikelets many, aggregated into several ap- 
proximate spikes, ovate-cylindric, obtuse, becoming taw- 
ney, ail bracted, staminate above; bracts rather long and 
narrow and scabrous under the spikes, short and setace- 
ous under the spikelets, and giving to the spike a bristly 
appearance; fruit ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, bifid, 
slightly plano-convex, often slightly 3—5 nerved, grow- 
ing yellow, scabrous on the margin, rather loose, and 
somewhat diverging; pistillate scale ovate-lanceolate, 
tawney, green on the keel, and with its awn about the length 
of the fruit. 
Flowers in June and July—matures its fruit in Au- 
& roullior in clusters in wet upland meadows with 
multiflora and C. atipats 5 but is a later plant than ei- 
= cS a 
Nore.—In both the ee ceding species, as well as some 
thers, the awn or cuspidate part of the scale is very 
liable to be broken of before the fruit is matured; and 
the examination of this part requires much care and cau- 
tion. 
26. C el Schw.* 
margine subscabris, - gen se -lanceolata breve aris- 
tata hyalina paulo longioribu 
Culm 1—4 feet high, alesis, weak, subprocumbent, 
triangular, scabrous above, leafy ; leaves subradical, flat, 
linear-lanceolate, striate, shorter than the culm, glabrous 5 ; 
*See the “ Analytical geri of Carices,” by the Rev. L. D. De: 
Schweinits in the “ Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of an 
York,’ «to which the eaiot is referred for the names of the 
species of Mr. Schweinitz. 
