Sc, ake 
es Caricography. 69 
- This plant is very different from any species in a Behe 
and was named after that distinguished examiner of the 
genus to which AE selones, the Rey. L. D. de Schweinitz, 
_ by whom it was announced in his “ Analytical Table of 
Carices” in the Annals of the Lyceum of New-York, Vol. I. 
33. C. pyriformis. Schw. 
Spicis staminiferis et fructiferis distinctis; spica stam- 
inifera solitaria abbreviata pedunculata eb ta; spicis. 
fructiferis ternis distigmaticis oblongis laxifloris subpendu- 
lis exserte pedunculatis ee bracteatis ; -fruc- 
tibus obovatis vel pyriformibus obtusis nervosis sub- 
tricosis ore rier aquama ovata acuta’ vel : 
Culm ier: 6 inches: high, tria ngular, paonihat pro- 
nt, scabrous above, leafy ; leaves subradical, harrow, 
striate, with striate sheathes and concave stipules ; stami- 
nate spike single, short and pedunculate, with a 
oblong, obtuse scale; stigmas two ; pistillate apilies three, 
oblong, loose-flowered, upper one nearly sessile, two high- 
est rather near, the Rowest rather remote and often long and 
exsertly ped unculate; sbracts leafy much surpassing the culm, 
than the peduncles ; fruit obo- 
vate or pear-shaped, sometimes nearly spheroidal, ventri- 
ein obtuse, nerved, sometimes with a very short beak or 
rojection, laucous when young, yellowish when mature ; 
pistillate scale rather various, ovate and acutish, some- 
times ovate- obtuse and shortly mucronate, reddish brown, 
on the border and greenish white on the keel, from 
half to nearly the length of the fruit ; plant small, suberect, 
and palielly Sete 
Flowers 
ay—June—grows in cold wet soil—not 
uncommon in Berkshire eee near the College. 
) the specimens forwarded to M. Schweinitz, he gave 
ove specific name from the common forni of 
_ This species seems to be nearly related to.C. aurea, 
t differs in having only iwo stigmas, and in the 
rm of t Aa tseems too to resemble some 
t does not agree with the de; 
