Q74. Caricography. 
glabris bicuspidatis, squama ovato-cuspidata vix duplolongior- 
Culm about two feet high, triquetrous and somewhat wing- 
ed above; leaves linear-lanceolate, rough, long or longer 
than the culm, sheathing towards the base ; bracts leafy, long,. 
distant, much surpassing the culm, without sheaths ; stami- 
te n broke three, erect, cylindric, upper one longer and pe- 
culate, the others sessile and bracteate; staminate scale 
oblong, obtuse, white and subserrate on the edge, tawny ; 
stigmas three ; pistillate spikcs two or three, cylindric, erect, 
in maturity somewhat nodding, alternate, sessile above, pe- 
dunculate below, rather. thick; fruit oblong-ovate, tapering 
above, rostrate, nerved, glabrous, bicuspidate, inflated, some- 
what spreading ; pistillate scale ovate-cuspidate, tawny, green 
‘on the keel, more than -half as long as the. fruit. Colour of 
the plantrather light green. —- soe vied 
fi ‘Seste in May. and June—grows in marshes, or. beside 
slow muddy brooks. Found in Penn., Muh.—Westfield, 
Mr. Davis, to whom I am indebted for most of my specimens. 
Also, in Northampton. ~ - Bea 
» This a sa differs from.its related species, C. ampullacea 
equal in length to the fruit; from C. Jacustris, and C. pe, 
+ €VO- 
75. C. Hitcheockiana. (Mihi.) 
‘ “Am. Journ. Vol. X. tab, E fig. 17. Ree 
__ Spicis distinetis ; spica staminifera solitaria recta peduii- 
éulata ; spicis fructiferis tristigmaticis subternis, erectis ex- 
serte pedunculatis paucifloris persparsifloris, infima remota ; 
fructibus subtriquetro-ovalibus inflatis utrinque alternatis 
apice recuryis striatis cum rostro’brevi truncato et aperto, 
squame oblonge vel ovate mucronate subequantibus ; cul- 
mis, foliis, bracteisque scabro-pubescentibus, © 
ulm 16—24 inches high, erect, triquetrous, scabrous 
above’; leaves scabrous, shorter than the culm, striate, short- 
er below, with’striate sheaths ; bracts lon 
passing the culm, with short sheaths, and often having a large 
ovate’ Stipule opposite the bract; staminate spike ‘single, 
erect, from the sheath of the highest pistillate, with a lanceo- 
late er eblong acute gcale, white on the margin and green 
