3, ee Professor Dewey's Caricography 
two species, as an essential difference. This renders it 
probable that Wahl. ranked our C. retroflewa, and C. seir- 
poides, Schk. also under C. stelludata. 
5. C. Plataginea. Lam. 
Mx. Pursh, Eaton, Pers. and Rees’ Cyc. 
Schk. tab. U- fig. 70 and Kkkk. fig. 195. 
C. latifolia, Gaert. Wahl. no. 94, and Rees’ Cyc. 
This is among the plants that appear here earliest in the 
spring. It is readily known by its broad nerved radical 
leaves—its. leafless brown culm—its pistillate spikes, 
whose peduncles are nearly enclosed in long brownish 
sheaths, rarely terminating in a short leafet, and its long 
cuneiform three-sided fruit, re-curved at the apex 
leaves are often nearly an inch wide, and distinctly mark- 
ed by three or many ribs or nerves like Plantago major. 
uhlenberg seems not to have been acquainted with 
this beautiful Carex. For, in the description of C. planta- 
- 
ginea, in the Des. Ub. Gram. Muhlenberg refegs to the fig. 
anceps, the figure of which is accurately drawn by S¢8*- 
It is most singular that Muh. should not have seen the true 
C. plantaginea, Lam.; but the figures of it in Schk. are 8° 
distinct and so different from any other that he would have 
referred to them had the plant ever fallen into his hands. In 
Rees’ Cyc. C.. latifolia, Wahl. and C. plantaginea, Lam. 
are described as different species, and in the reference of 
the former to Schk. there is a mistake. The language of 
Wahl. and Schk. however, asserts the identity of the tv° 
plants, as Wahl. refers his C. latifolia to Schk. tab. U- fig: 
¢0. The other part of Schk. Car. which contains the ot>- 
er fig. quoted above, was not published when Wabl. wrote: 
6. C. Granularis. Muh. 
Ph. Muh. Eaton. and. Pers. 
Sent Sehk. tab. Vyv. fig. 169. —*< 
This plant is much more perfectly described by Mub. 
than by the other authors, His description of the fruit, 
entire at the orifice and re-curved, is more readily appr” 
hended. than that of Willd. given by Ph, obsoletely ema” 
ginate, as well as nearer the truth. He has omitted es 
