x 
Caricography. 41 
‘ormibus sparsifloris remotis cernuis longo exserte peduncu- 
latis ; fructibus ovatis triquetris glabris subventricosis longi- 
nscule rostratis bifidis, squama ovata mucronata membranacea 
Vix superantibus 
Culm 9—18 inches high, leafy, seabrous above, trique- 
tvous; leaves linear-lanceolate, shorter than the culm, rough 
on the edges, and like the preceding with brownish sheaths 
at the base; bracts leafy, about equal to the culm, lower ones 
long ; staminate spike single, erect, subpedunculate, slender ; 
staminate scale oblong, acute, membranaceous, white, green 
on the keei, pistillate spikes generally four, an inch to an inch 
aes a half long, loose-flowered, nodding, filiform, remote, 
sertly pedunculate,—lower ones with long peduncles ex- 
‘ending from long sheaths ; stigmas three ; fruit ovate, tri- 
quetrous, glabrous, rostrate, bifid ; pistillate scale ovate, white 
on the margin, green on the keel, 27 ene nearly equal- 
sg PH fruit: Colour of the plant light gree 
lowers in iin son June—grows in ey same — 
as the precedin mon, but not abundant, in this co 
Newburgh, N pee ai near Little Falls on the Mobawi. 
This species has not heretofore been credited to our coun- 
try. Schk. has given two figs. of the plant with which ours 
well agrées. It differs from C. flexuosa in the particulars 
mentioned by Willd. Its fruit is shorter and more inflated 
than that of C. flexuosa, and its pistillate scale is longer in 
proportion, as well-as different in form. 
59. GC. limosa. L. 
Pers. no. 179, aoe Rees’ Cyc. no. 130. 
Schk. tab. X. fi 
Cc. jenticubeotin 5 and Schw. 
Am. Journ. Vol. VII. p. 273. 
Spicis distinctis ; spica staminifere Solitaria ebraeteata ; 
spicis fructiferis tristigmaticis subbinis ovatis vel oblongis sub- 
endalis subremotis ; fruc- 
tibus ellipticis compressis brevissime rostratis ore integris, 
squame ovate-cuspidate et ovato-lanceolatz vel oblonge: 
sabe ualibus 
ulm about one foot high, ascending, obtusely menieteees, 
subscabrous above; leaves subradical, rather glaucous, 
narrow, flat, carinate, a a little. rolled in 
on the = ; scarcely as long the culm, with brownish 
sheaths at the base ; bracts leafy, linear, surpassing the stem 
with very short brownish heat staminate spike single. 
Vor. X.—No. 1. 
