Monograph of North American Carices. 309 



C. teretiuscula, Willd. sp. pi. iv. p. 244. Schk. tar. t, D. f. 

 19. &, t. f. 69. Deivey car. 1. c. vii. p. 225 



C. paniculata /3., Wahlenberg. 



Hab. In marshes and bog meadows; common in New-Eng- 

 land. Flowers in the end of May. 



Obs. This species is also a native of Europe, and is con- 

 sidered by Wahlenberg as a variety of C. paniculata. The 

 spike, however, is far less compound, and the fruit and 

 scales become brownish black in age. 



2. Three Stigmas. 

 25. Cakex pedunculata, Muhlenberg. 



C. spicis subquaternis, longe-pedunculatis, remotissimis ; 



fructibus obovatis, triquetris, obtusis, glabns, ore integris ; 



glumis ovatis, mucronatis (purpureo-viridibus). 

 C. pedunculata, Willd. sp. pi. iv. p. 222. Schk. car. t. Ggg. 



f. 131. opt. Purshfi. i. p. 39. Muhl. gram. p. 232. 



Culm triquetrous, filiform, purplish at the base, about six inches high, pro- 

 ducing one longer and one shorter peduncle, at the base of which there 

 is a lacerate elongated sheath or bractea ; each peduncle terminated by 

 a single spikelet. Besides these there are a number of radical pedun- 

 cles or scapes proceeding from the root, rather shorter than the others. 

 Leaves all radical, much longer than the culm, spreading and usually 

 resting on the ground, flattened, but with the midrib prominent below, 

 abruptly acute, nerved, very dark green, scabrous on the margin, 

 tinged with purple at the base. Spikes subtriangular, 3 — 5 on one 

 plant. Glumes ovate or lanceolate, obtuse, mucronate, purplish and 

 green. Fruit subpedicellate, smooth, and without a rostrum ; orifice 

 entire. Stigmas rarely 2. 



Hab. On rocky hill sides ; Canada to Pennsylvania. Flow- 

 ers about the beginning of May. 



26. Carex ovata, Rudge. 



C. spicis subquinis, pedunculatis, ovatis, pendulis; fructibus 

 obovatis, utrinque acutis, glumis ovatis, acutis, fructu 

 a?quantibu«. 



