270 Professor Dewey’s Caricography. 
BiG. a, sas Li, 
h.: Pers. Rees? Sie: and Schk. » 
tp ma, Mx. var. of C. squarrosa. Pers. 
There i is no ie of this carex in Schk. but it is so well 
described by him and Muh. that there can be no doubt 
about-it. It should be in a new section in Ph. and Eaton, 
under the general division, stigmas three, and a new —_ 
vision, spike single, staminate bel 
ts descruton might then be as follow. 
Spike oblong-cylindric ; fruit walbniaisbdaye ovate with a long 
beak, two toothed, horizontal, enemas and sub-squarrose, 
bi ale bos oe passer ae 
than three. It sometimes has twos ikes, as Muh. re- 
marks ; but they are far distant and the lower is supported 
on is hat pedunc 
ursh does not give ( c. squarrosa, unless he confounded 
pone Cre seems indeed scarcely possible 
that any one, who hdd seen both, should consider them a 
at all ici! and yet it is singular that C, squarrosa s 
of Ph.* 
Ik Gam, indied tes to be expected that P , Port iat be ented 
free from mintahes, But in some cases, t the iota is not easily accounted 
for. Thus to the description of Pigseee 7 villosum, Mx. taken pot 
— — nage Pursh ha pes Sided & » * baccis distinctis,” whch 
been, that @ 
7 nd most of on all 3 i 
is ered in the Harb k ies, and IS 
= xX solos i Pea “ste ay to be probably a new operas, 
