276 Professor Dewey's Caricography. 
9. C. straminea, Willd. 
Muh. Eaton, Wahl. and Pers 
' Schk.. tab. Ge fige-34, and tabs Xxx. fig. 147. 
This is a beautiful carex, and is easily recognized. by a 
character distinctly marked by Muh, alone, its winged fruit. 
The fruit is broad-ovate, beaked, compressed, distinctly cili- 
ate-servate, two-toothed and widely winged, with an ovate- 
lanceolate scale commonly shorter than the fruit. The di- 
ameter of the cavity occupied by the seed is about one 
third of the diameter of the fruit. Though the spikelets 
vary from five to seven or more, it has sometimes only 
three spikelets, clustered at the summit of the culm. In 
this state it may be the C. deporina in Ph.’s Fl., as it differs 
very little from the description he has given. Unless 
the plant intended by Pursh, it has not been found and an- 
nounced by any other botanist in our country. The refer- 
ence of Muh. to fig. 174 of Schk. is a typographical error, 
—it should be.fig. 147. 
10, C, ovalis, Gooden. 
_» Pursh, Eaton, Pers., and Rees’ Cyc. 
 Scbk. tab. B. fig. 8. 
C. leporina, L. Sp. Pl. 8, according to Wahl. 
and Agardh. 
In this opinion he is. followed in Rees’ Cyc., though the 
ig cease that Wahl. considers both to be C. eporina 
uch confusion of names has arisen from the fact that 
' seems to have referred to . leporina, Fl 
Dan. t. 294 and the C. ‘Oxi: Hoppe. | Both these 
ess there be other species for the same reference, that tse 
C-leporina in Vh.’s Fl. and C, lagopina, Wahl. are the same 
plant, a Tn his Car, Scan. Agardh describes C. leporina, 
and quotes the fig..in Schk. taken from C. ovalis, Gooden+ 
