4> Curicography ; 
rising from the sheath of the highest pistillate, and peduncu- 
late ; staminate scale lanceolate, often oblong, brownish ; 
stigmas three ; pistillate spikes one to three, ovate or oblong, 
sometimes cylindric, long pedunculate, pendulous, remotish; 
fruit compressed, elliptic, or lenticular, rarely obovate, 
searcely rostrate, entire at the orifice ; pistillate scale ovate 
cuspidate, ovate-lanceolate, or oblong and obtusish, some- 
times a little longer or shorter than the fruit, or equal to it, 
becoming brown or = So a green keel. Plant rather 
era changing to bro 
. wrrigua, Wahl Has subcylindric spikes, and long 
cocaine dark red pistillate scales. Stockbridge 
y. C. variflora, Wabl. Has sub-linear spikes, rather loose 
lowe red, with subcircinate pistillate scales, and ov«l stami- 
nate scales, with ovate-suboblong fruit 
é C. livida, Wahl. Has abonée peduncles, few-flowered, 
eblong pistillate scale about equal to the fruit, and obtusish, 
with rather ovate-oblong fruit, and sub-incurved leaves. 
Becket 
&. C. “oblonga, (mihi,) spikes rather long eylindrie. White 
Mts. N. H. 
owers in June. Grows on marshes about ponds Stock- 
bridze and Becket — Dr. Emmons. Aci —Dr. J. Porter 
Mt. Washington, N. H.—Dr. Bar 
In Vol. VII. p. 273, the peerinion of C, lenticularis, Mx. 
was an as well as the popular characters of the above 
lant. The resemblance of our plant to C. limo a was also 
heigl sin it was then supposed to be a different spe- 
e jittle doubt that C. lenticularis, Mx. is the same 
plant. as the beak is scarcely to be perceived on some speci- 
mens. From an examination of our plant from different 
places, of whieh at least three varieties are now before me, 
and one different also from those given b lenbergh, and 
from a comparison of them with C. diosa from England and 
Sweden, there can be no doubt that our plant is the C. imo- 
sa, L. The Carex, Vol. IX. Tab. A. fig. 2, named C. Jen 
ficularis, must be considered a var. “of Cc, limost: 
60 C. leucoglochin. res 
Wahi. no. 8, Pers. no. 
C. pauciflora. Schk. ee A. fg. 4. Rees’ Cye. ne. 9- 
C. pulicaris. Lin. Flor. Suec 
* This is not ©. pulicaris, Setrk. the C. ysyllophomi, Eth. 
