Professor Dewey’sCaricography. 277 
and subjoins the following pointed remark. “ Cel. Good- 
enough primus statuit suam C. ovalem differre a C. lepori- 
na Linnaei quam Alpium incolam esse et spiculas tantum 
tres habere existimavit. Quod vero non facile credi po- 
test, cum Linnaeus C. leporinam in Suecia vulgarem esse 
et spiculas 5—6 habere asserit.” In comparing specimens 
named C. leporina in Sweden and England, they ramen to 
agree with the description of C. leporina in Wahl. 
Agardh ; butthey appearto differ somewhat from my English 
Specimen named C. ovalis, and from its fig. in - The 
description of C. leporina in Mx.’ Fl. does not well agree 
with C. ovalis or with the account of C. leporina by 
Agardh or in Rees’ Cyc. 
To ascertain C. ovalis by the descriptions in Ph. and 
Eaton is impossible. . They do not accurately describe the 
fruit, and omit the scale paticoly. The fruit 1s ovate acu- 
minate, or ovate-oval acuminate, two-toothed, ciltate-serrate, 
equaling the osateolpnesolatl acute se ca on the 7 
ginand keel green. The spikelets have bracts, the lowest 
being long a sub-leafy, and the colour of the ‘spikelets i is 
‘rusty-green.” Muh. does not appear a have found the 
true C. ovale if indeed it be in our country. He constd- 
ered the C. scoparia, Schk., which he has so perfectly de- 
scribed and which corresponds so entirely to the fig. of 
Schk. tab. Xxx. fig. 175, as related to C. ovalis or leporina. 
ey seems, however, to differ much from C. leporina of Swe- 
— 
Il. C. aristala. 
fy 
acute at both ents, slightly 
pul esce 
This slout is undoubtedly the unnamed Carex No. 46 2 
Muh. It agrees most exactly with his popular description of 
the plant. It belongs in the same su ubdivision in Pb. and 
Eaton with C. virescens. It isa very distinct species, and 
no fig. in Schk. corresponds to it. I have given the pacer 
— name, on ricdeais of the peculiar awneo pistiiate 
