34 Caricography. 
were not evident from the description, we have the express 
declaration of Muh, 
51. C. tentaculata. 
Muh. 
Muh., aR Eaton, Pers. no. 116. Ell. no. 30. 
Sc 
Schk. tab. Gig. fiz. 130. 
C. rostrata. Mx., “Petal, Perk no. 154. 
Schk. tab. Hhh fix. 134. 
Spicis distinctis ; spica staminifera  solitaria: oabwobit 
braeteata ; spicis fructiferis tristigmaticis binis vel ternis ob- 
longis cylindraceis bracteatis, suprema sessili. ceteris breve 
et inclusé pedunculatis ; 3 fructibus ovatis inflatis longo-rostra- 
tis bidentatis nervosis glabris divergentibus arcté oppressis, 
squama ovata parva scabro-mucronata duplo longioribus. 
Culm 1—2 feet high. Senet, scabrous above, leafy; 
leven linear-lanceolate, nerved. longer than the culm, rough 
on the edge; bracts long, leafy. surpassing the culm muchy 
and with short sheaths 3 staminate spike single, oblong, 
bracteate ; staminate scale long, linear. epceoueic wit 
a scabrous point; pisiillate sprkes 2—3 rarely one or 
four, i hea oblong-cytindric, thick aid large, ses- 
sile or with short peduncles nearly or quite inclosed in the 
sheath, rarely ovate, varying in length from half an inch to 
two inches, very densely flowered. somewhat horizontal, with 
long, large bracts; stigmas three ; fruit ovate, long- beaked, 
two-toothed, inflated, much crowded, nerved, diverging; pis- 
tillate scale ovate, small. but as noticed by Muh., broad at 
the base, linear, mucronate, scabrous, about half the length 
of the fruit. Colour of the plant rather yellowish green. 
Flowers in May—grows in wet, marshy situations, in small 
rcs sometimes forming small bogs—common over the 
ntry. 
» ethough Schk. has given figures.of C, tentaculata and C. 
rostrata, as if they were different species, yet they are too 
similar to be considered more than mere varieties of the same 
ies, They are thus considered by Mub., Pursh, and 
others. In the fig. of C. rostrata, the fruit is rather more 
diverging and the spikes smaller. But it is not uncommon 
to find specimens of C. tentaculata very closely resembling 
the fig. of C. rostrata in Schk., and differing less from it at 
least than the varieties of C. tentaculata differ from each 
ether. Mr, Schweinitz supposes that a variety of C. hysteri- 
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