Caricography. 273 
75, . ee = apne 
C. 
Parsh, Beton; Schr, 
Am. Journ. Vol. X. tab. G fig. 21. 
Spicis. distinctis ; spica staminifera solitaria erecta ; spicis 
fructiferis tristigmaticis subternis sessilibus vel incluse ‘pedan- 
culatis distonitiims per-paucifloris; fructibus subulatis vel 
subinflato-lanceolatis longis rostratis divaricato-reflexis ore 
ineeare Gian, squsims seseaacere: plus quam triplo longioeri- 
As Wahlenberg had published a species under the name of 
C. subulata, found in the Isle of Bourbon, and very different 
feanibit that dencribed by Michaux, it is necessary to give Mi- 
chaux’s plant a new name. [have chosen: for it the name of 
that eminent botanist. 
Culm a. foot high or more, triquetrous,: Viceder: smooth, 
lax; leaves flat, _Sibet striate, smooth, shorter than the 
culm with striate sheaths; bracts leafy, linear, flat, upper 
ones long as the culm; staminate spike single, — small, 
with.an oblong mucronaté white scale ; 5: paca _ 
tillate spikes about three, sessile or with inclosed peduncles, 
two to four flowered, quite distant ; fruit subulate, or long 
lanceolate, rostrate, slightly inflated, entire at the orifice, re~ 
flexed and diverging, somewhat two-ranked ; pistillate scale 
lanceolate, whitish, Reged one third as long as 
Colour of the sg ight green. 
Flowers in May and June. Found in Canada, Mx tread 
<ted heat Huy eazarsk in N, sitet ,» whence I ree 
a the plant € po bas of Dr. Torrey. 
aed to to C. Leuco, och, Ei batis a very 
%4. C. vesicaria. Lin. 
Muh., Pursh, Eaton, Schw., Pers. no. 203. 
Wahl. no. 124, Rees’s Cyc. no. 163, 
Schk. tab. Ss fig. 106, 
Bpicis staminiferis distinctis subternis erectis, suprema pe- 
dunculata, cateris sessilibus ; spicis fructiferis tristigmaticis 
binis vet ternis cylindraceis alternis erectis ange pe supre- 
ma sessile; infimis subpedunculatis ; fructibus ob 0-ove- 
tis ——— , pone inewnts potentibus nervosis 
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