44 Caricog raphy. 
appears to have considered it ih same as C. riparia, ai- 
though he referred it to the fig. of C. lacustris, Schk., and 
although Schk., Persoon, and i consider the two as dif- 
ferent species. It cannot be C. striata, Mx. as Persoon sus- 
pects ; for that species has pebeeey fruit, and is doubtless 
the C. pellita, Muh. 
. C. ovata. Rud 
“hi on. Trans, vii tab. EX. fig. 1. 
rsh, Rees’ Cyc. no. 
Spicis andieacgiis apice Sy quaternis vel ‘quinis 
ovatis densifloris pedunculatis pendulis bracteatis, fructibus 
tristigmaticis Ovatis compressis acuminatis bifidis, squaine 
ovate acute equalibus. 
Culm acutely triangular, scabrous; leaves erect, slender, 
scabrous on the edge; bracts leafy, with very short sheaths; 
spikes 4—5, staminate above, ovate, pedunculate, closely . 
flowered, pendulous; fruit ovate, compressed, acuminate, 
bifid, stigmas three; pistillate scale ovate, acute, begme, 
The species seems to be very distinct and well characterized, 
and the writer is very desirous of obtaining a specimen. 
64. C. cristata Schw. 
Spiculis androgynis inferne staminiferis sessilibus 6—14 
areté aggregatis globosis bracteatis; fructibus distigmaticis 
ovato-oblongis compressis divergentibus alatis rostratis acu- 
minatis bifidis convexo-concavis margine ciliato-serratis, 
squama oblongo-lanceolata longioribus. 
Culm t—3 feet high, acutely triangular, scabrous abot 
glabrous; leaves Jinear-lanceolate, abbreviated below low, 
shorter than the culm, striate, with long st ‘sheaths ; 
bracts ovate, setaceous, the lowest nearly the length of the a 
whole spike; spikes 6—14, crowded into a head, globose, — 
sessile, with a few staminate florets at the base; rule: ovate-_ 
oblong, winged, rostrate, acuminate, bifid, striate, very rough 
on ed ‘ed es so as to have a sub-crested appearance, convex 
abov rather concave below, diverging; stigmas two; 
pists illo oblong-langeglate, membranaceous,, about two- 
