4G Caricography. 
prema subsessili, infima longé pedunculata, pedusculo anci- 
piti, fructibus ovalibus vel obovatis subtriquetris nervosis 
apice recurvis et integris glabris, squama ovata scabro-mu- 
eronata vix longioribus. 
ulm S— 12 inches high, triquetrous, scabrous above, 
leafy; leaves linear-lanceolate, rough on the edge, long as 
the culm, shorter below, with striate sheaths white opposite 
to the leaf; bracts linear-lanceolate, leafy, longer than the 
culm, with short sheaths; staminate spike single, erect, pe- 
dunculate, short, triquetrous, from the same sheath with the 
highest pistillate; staminate seale oblong, rather obtuse, 
sometimes submucronate, yellowish; pistillate spikes two to 
four, oblong, cylindric, alternate, rather loose- flowered, high- 
est nearly sessile, sometimes the two highest approximate and 
aubsessile, the others remote, exsertly pedunculate, the 
ewest long peduneulate; peduncles two-edged; stigmas 
three ; fruit oval or obovate, nerved, somewhat triquetrous, 
entire and somewhat recurved at the apex, glabrous, be- 
coming yellowish; pistillate scale ovate, mucronate, with 4 
scabrous point, the lower scales often lon ug mucronate, about 
equal in length to the fruit. Whole plant rather light greeu 
and 16) aucous. 
Flowers in May and June. Grows in a woods and 
meadows; a ie Sheffield; Newburgh, N. Y; Penn- 
Muh, and Sch 
Thi F vhot is “excellently described in Mub. Gram. and 
the as Rwy is to ©. eonoidea, Schk. But this is an entirely 
different species from the C. conoidea, Schk., as is evident 
from the deseription of Muh. and the comparison of speci- 
mens from Muh. in the Herbarium of Mr. Schweinitz. The C. 
granularioides, Schw., described in this Journal Vol. IX. p. 
362, is a uns C. conoidea, Schk., and the fig. there refer- 
red to, Tab. A fig. 4, is only a variety of this species of Schk. 
"Phe reason rer the mistake may appear singular, when it is 
stated that both these species were correctly ascertained 
nearly two years before that paper was written he mis- 
take, into which I was led, is now corrected or some rea- 
son Muh. had changed the plant after Schk. had described 
©. conoidea ; to the plant deseribed by Muh. it becomes 
necessary to give a new name. 
There can be no doubt that the ©. conoidea lately de- 
scribed by Mr. Eljiot is the true ©. ¢onoidea, though it is 
not the plant intended by Muh. 
