32 Caricography. 
Spicis distinetis ; spica staminifera solitaria oblonga gra- 
cili raré bracteata ; spicis fructiferis a ternis laxi- 
floris remotis erectis, suprema breve et inclusé pedunculatis, 
infima exserte pedunculatis ; ; fructibus pa vel oblongo-ova- 
libus subobtusis glabris ventricosis nervosis ore integro sub- 
— squama ovato-mucronata et scabra pauld longio- 
Culm 10—18 inches high, triangular, Jeafy ; leaves linear- 
lanceolate, rather soft, rough on the edge, shorter than the 
culm ; bracts long, lealy, ee the culm with rather 
short sheaths; staminate spike single, oblong, generally from 
the same bract with the highest pistiline, slender ; staminate 
seale obovate, lower ones acuminate ; pistillate spikes three, 
erect, alternate, remote, loose- flowered, about 6—8 flowered 
but varying from 3—1:', the lowest spike supported ona long 
pedunele, the others by a shorter, and the highest by a short 
and inclosed peduncle,—sometimes there are four or five 
spikes with two or three approximate and near the staminate 
spike, with nearly inclosed peduncles; pistillate scale ovate- 
mucronate with a rough point, white on the edge and green 
on the keel, a little shorter than the fruit. Colour of the plant 
varies es from a pale to a bright green 
Flowers in May—grows in meadows and woods and about* 
hedges—common over the country. 
his is a beautiful species, and is finely figured by Schk. 
There can be no doubt that the plant described by Mr. El- 
liott and others under this name is the C. daxtflora, Lam. ac- 
cording to Schk., and that it is the C. grisea of Wahl. ‘The 
last described it from a specimen in the Herbarium of 
of Swartz, and inquires whether it was from N. America. 
This speeies is doubtless the C paupercula, Mx., though his 
description does not in every particular exactly agree with it. 
In Rees’ Cye. this species is described under driee two differ- 
ent names given by Lam. and Wahl. 
50. C. folliculata. LL, 
Muh., a Eaton, Pers. no. 153, Mx. Ell. 
“Wahl. a 72. Rees Cyc. no. 144. Schw. . 
bk. tab. N fig. 5 
Spicis distinctis ; spiea Seti solitaria oblonga pe- 
dunculata ; spicis feuctiferis subbinis approximatis pauciflo- 
ris eveetis sub-pedunculatis, inferiore interdum remota et 
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