310 Monograph of North American Carices. 



C. ovata, Rudge Lin. Trans, viii. p. 96. t. g. f. i. Purshfl. 

 i. p. 39. Rees's Cyclop. No. 69. 



Culm acute, triangular, angles acute, scabrous. Leaves erect, slender, 

 scabrous on the margin. Spikes 4 — 5, pedunculate ; florets densely 

 imbricated. Glumes brown, as long as the fruit. Bractea at the base 

 of the peduncles subamplexicaul. Fruit ovate, compressed, acuminate, 

 cleft at the tip. Rudge. 



Hab. In Newfoundland. Rudge. 



Obs. Of this species we have seen no specimens. 



C. Summit pistilliferous. 



1. Two stigmas. 

 27. Carex bicolor, Allioni. 



C. spicis subquaternis, pedunculatis, terminalibus, erectis; 

 fructibus obovatis, obtusis ; glumis ovatis, obtusis, (nigres- 

 centibus.) 



C. bicolor, All.fi.pedem. No. 2311. Willd. sp.pl. iv. p. 222. 

 Schk. car. t. Aaaa. f. 181. 



Hab. In Labrador. About 6 inches high. 



Obs. My specimens which were collected by a Moravian 

 missionary, agree perfectly with Schkuhr's figure and de- 

 scription, except that they are rather taller than the Euro- 

 pean plant is represented. 



28. Carex Deweyana.* 



C. spiculis subternis, sessilibus, laxis, duabus approximatis, 

 tertia distante, longe-bracteatis (excepta suprema) ; fructi- 

 bus oblongo-lanceolatis, subcompressis, longiuscule rostra- 

 tis, bifidis, glabris, rostro serrato-ciliato ; culmo flaccido. 



C. Deweyana, Schw. an. tab. car. 1. c. Dewey 1. c. ix. p. 62. 

 t. 3.f. 21. 



Culm 1 — 4 feet high, weak, slender and subprocumbent, triquetrous, with 

 the angles almost winged above and scabrous, leafy below. Small sepa- 

 rate filiform culms, not exceeding 2 — 3 inches in length, are intermixed 

 among the tuft of leaves with the rest, and otherwise resemble them. 



