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pistilliferis ; fructibus ovatis lanceolatis convexo-coneavis subu- 
latis subbidentatis, squama acuta ovata paulo longioribus. 
Culm fifteen to twenty eight inches high, erect, leafy towards 
the base, three-sided, striate, scabrous ; leaves flat, linear, striate, 
shorter than the culm, shorter below, "apd sheathing ; spike two 
inches long and composed of numerous spikelets, fifteen to twenty 
each, ovate and sessile, simple pistillate below, sometimes with 
few staminate flowers, sometimes several of the upper spikelets 
mostly or entirely staminate, the lower half commonly more 
abundantly pistillate, sometimes all mostly pistillate; stigmas 
two ; staminate scale lanceolate ; scale of the fruit ovate, acute, 
rather broad, and a little shorter than the fruit; light green, stiff 
plant. 
This Carex is near C. intermedia, Gooden. ; but it differs from 
it in not having compound and compressed spikelets, and in hav- 
ing smaller fruit, and pistillate scale much shorter and less broad. 
From C. marcida, Boott, it differs in the lower spikelets, and in 
fruit, which is much shorter and less lanceolate. - 
Found by Dr. 8. P. Sartwell in Junius, Seneca county, N. Y., 
after whom it is named, with the “genitive termination,” and 
‘“‘in accordance with well established rules of botanical nomen- 
clature.” 
No. 175, . C. macrocephala, Willd.. Tab. Cc. fig. 96. 
Dioica; spica pistillifera composita maxima dense ovato-capi- 
tata distigmatica inferne substaminifera; fructibus ovato-lanceo- 
latis maximis compressis nervosis glabris bicuspidatis | margine 
serrulatis, sqaama ovata longo-cuspidata paulo longioribus- 
Culm eight to twelve inches high, angular, large, leafy ; leaves 
sheathing, numerous, flat, linear-lanceolate, longer than the culm, 
lower leaves short; staminate spike large and thick ; didicicns, 
and stigmas two ; fortile spike single, large, ovate, oblong: and 
composed of ihaniy small spikelets cénipacted into a dense head, 
sometimes staminate below ; fruit large and long lanceolate ; phat 
yellowish green. 
This is a very singular and strongly marked species, supposed. 
to inhabit Siberia by Sprengel in Systema Vegetabilium, Ed. 16; 
Dr. Boott credits it the Northwest coast, and Mr. Nuttall collected 
it in his tour across the Rocky Mountains, and through the kind- 
ness of Prof. Torrey I have been permitted to examine it. | 
