72 Caricography. 
ifera solitaria pedunculata ; spicis fructiferis tristigmaticis 
pedunculatis cylindraceis crassis pendulis, bracteis sub- 
amplectentibus longe foliaceis subapproximatis ; squamis 
setaceis ; fructibus oblongis acuminato-rostratis reflexis 
triquetris nervosis bicuspidatis. Wahl. No. 117. 
This description, taken chiefly from Wail., is applica- 
ble to both the European and American specimens. No 
rence between ours and the foreign specimens is ob- 
servable, so far as I have compared them, except in 
the length of the pistillate scale be ass is shorter than 
the fruit on the American plant. In other respects the 
resemblance is complete. CC. pseudo-cyperus is readil 
ascertained in its mature state. It has very little resem- 
blance to our other species, and to none in Schk. except 
Cc. a Schk, the C. Forsteri ,Wahl. a native of New- 
Zealand. Muh. remarked its resemblance to this species ; 
but fhesides other particulars, C. Fostert always has stami- 
nate florets at the base of the ss gale ape rales) is 
no sufficient reason dot considering ou differ- 
ent from the Eu pean VY. ps scabaa 
The followi the general characters of ou our plant. 
Culm 2—3 +) ery acutely saiayalbines 
and stiff, angles, leafy ; leaves linear-lan- 
ceolate, rough, striate and knotted, about the length of the 
; inate spike single, (sometimes two according to 
Muh. ) long, rather Mcnger pedunculate, sometimes with 
a bract; staminate scale lanceolate, mucronate, and yel- 
lowish ; stigmas 3; pistillate spikes, rather long and large, 
dieetcdted: cylindric, recurved, pendulous, rather near, 
with filiform, scabrous, rather flattened peduncles ; sheaths 
scarcely any, but long, large, leafy bracts much surparsing 
the culm and rough; fruit oblong-lanceolate, acummate, 
reflexed, nerved, glabrous, with a slender, widely forked 
beak ; pistillate scale lanceolate, mucronate, bristly, sca- 
brous, and about two-thirds as ens as the fruit; plant gla- 
brous, and of a yellowish gree 
Flowers in 1 May—Fune,—grow in clusters on the bor- 
ders of pon 
Moh. Stee es that the two eae —— ae orig- 
inate from the same bract, an ardh has seen instances 
of the same in Sweden; ina all the i Mae F have ob- 
served here or seen from Europe, each spike has its own 
bract. 
