SSCL ITN 
Cericougrap hy. 257 
BOTANY. 
hut, Vibl peeRariconraphys by Proressor Dewerx. Con- 
tinued from Vol. 1X. p. 73. 
[Communicated to the Lyceum of NaturalHistory of the Berkshire Medical 
. Justitation.| 
39. Carex ig al Torrey.* 
Tab. C. 88 
squama lanceolata vel ovato-cuspidata paulo longioribus. 
Culm 15—30 inches high, triangular, scabrous above, rather 
slender, stiff; leaves linear-lanceolate, flat, scabrous on the 
pipet much shorter than the e-eulms striate, shesthing 3 sheaths 
staminate at its summit ; : bsags.J ooh nearly the 
of the culm, scarcely sheathing the peduncles; fruit . 
nearly globose, sometimes a little three-sided, glabrous, nerv- 
ed, with a long, slender, bifid beak ; pistillate scale lanceolate, 
sometimes ovato-cuspidate, white on the edge, green on the 
back and keel, and alittle shorter than the fruit, stigmas 3. 
Flowersin May. Found in Westfield in woods on the bank 
of the river—Mr. E. Davis. Also, near Boston, Growsin . 
great abundance in a light soil on the border of the interval 
- the Hausatoanuc, Sheffield, one mile south of the meeting- 
ouse. 
. Schweinitz. Paris ages of Cariges,” in the Annals of the 
New-York prey Vol. L. p 
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