308 Monograph of North American Caricts. 



Hab. In wet upland pastures, with C. multiflora and C. 

 stipata; Massachusetts. Dewey. Flowers in June and 

 July, ripens its fruit in August. 



Obs. This species is adopted from Professor Dewey's Cari- 

 cography, it not having come under our observation. It is 

 said to be intermediate between the two species just men- 

 tioned ; its culm and leaves much resembling the latter, as 

 well as its fruit, except that it is much more compressed; and 

 approaching the former in its decompound spike and ag- 

 gregation of spikelets. Its fruit, moreover, is described as 

 less ovate, longer and more compressed than in C. multi- 

 flora. 



23. Carex paniculata, Lin. 



C. spica decomposita, paniculata, interrupta ; ramis alternis, 

 remotiusculis ; fructibus ovatis, acuminatis, patentibus. 

 superne marginatis, serrulatis, bifidis. 



C paniculata, Willd. sp. pi. iv. p. 244. Purshjl. i. p. 36. 

 Muhl. gram. p. 224. 



Hab. In wet meadows, Sussex county, New-Jersey. Mas- 

 sachusetts. Deivey. 



Obs. This being an European species, no detailed descrip- 

 tion is given. Our specimens agree with those in our her- 

 barium from Sweden, Germany, and England, except that 

 the panicle is not so decompound in the North American 

 plant. 



C decomposita of Muhlenberg, (gram. p. 264.) seems to be 

 (by a specimen received from him, and by his herbarium) 

 very near C. paniculata of Europe. 



14. Carex teretiuscula, Goodenough. 



C. spica decomposita, vel paniculata, densa, subacuta (ssepe 

 dioica, demum brunnea); spiculis brevi-bracteatis ; fructibus 

 ovatis, acuminatis, basi subgibbosis, bidentatis, marerini- 

 bus ciliato-serrulatis. 



