Professor Dewey’s Caricography. 273 
mention, however, thé beak, the very short beak given by 
Willd. which is a very good character in this species. The 
whole plant is rather glaucous green before the fruit is en- 
tirely mature, and is thus colouréd in Schk. The upper ~ 
spikes are sometimes more Clustered than in the fig. of 
Schk. or than the descriptions would imply. Its peculiar 
roundish-ovate approximate fruit, entire at the mouth, ex- 
tremely short beaked and re-curved, becoming of a dull yel- 
low in full maturity, and its glaucous green readily distin- 
guishes it from the other species in the same sub-division in 
related to-C. panicea, will not justify the conclusion of Ph, 
ersoon was an cautious, bre goes 3 asks whether the 
two plants are the same. ; 
At'the elevated marsh in Stockbridge, Dr. E. Emmons 
foand:a Carex, growing in abundance, which seems to be 
the C. lenticularis; Mx. The locality is similar to. that at 
which Mx. found the plant, “ especially about Swan Lake.” 
i iption of Mx, C. den- 
i gracili triquetro 
subequalibus : spiculis fem, pluribus, pedunculatis, oblor 
gis ; masculae unica : capsulis lenticularibus, brevi-ovatis, 
5 br 
ey compressed, lenticular, five 
oval 1 
_nerved, scarcely rostrate, shorter than the large brown carin- 
8B ieee ahh ey ae ff i many respects, that 
irrigua, Wahl, . But it, diiters i_so.m espects, t 
itis probably a different species. “It must be closely rela- 
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