Monograph of North American Carices. 311 



Leaves mostly radical, narrow, flat, thin and smooth, shorter than 

 the culm; sheaths smooth, white on the side of the stipule. Spikelets 

 usually 3, sometimes 2 or 4, loose, 3 — 5-flowered ; the two upper ones 

 approximate, the lowest distant about an inch from these, the culm be- 

 tween them somewhat flexuous, all bracteate except the highest ; bractece 

 subulate, the lowest longer than the culm, broad at the base. Glumes 

 oblong-lanceolate, white and scarious, with a green keel, awned a little, 

 shorter than the fruit. Fruit acuminate, beaked, subterete at the base. 



Hab. In moist rocky woods. Williamstown and elsewhere. 

 Dewey. Plainfield, Massachusetts Dr. Porter. Nor- 

 wich, Vermont. Barratt. Flowers in June. 



Obs. Fertile glumes a little variable in length and breadth. 

 The whole plant is of a yellowish green color. 



29. Carex loliacea, Lin. 



C. spiculis subquaternis, subdistantibus paucifloris ; fructibus 

 ellipticis, obtusis, nervosis, compressis, erectis. 



C. loliacea, Wittd. sp.pl. iv. p. 237. Schk. car. t. Pp. f. 204. 

 (C. tenella) Wahl. act. holm. 1803. p. 147. Richardson 

 app. Frank, nar. ed. 2 p. 35. No. 372. 



Hab. In the woody country of Arctic America. Dr. Rich- 

 ardson. 



Obs. It is very probable that this species will be found in 

 the mountainous parts of New-England. We have speci- 

 mens from the cedar swamp in New-Durham, New-Jersey, 

 which exactly resemble Schkuhr's figure. 



30. Carex trisperma, Dewey. 



C. spiculis ternis, remotis, alternis, sessilibus, ovatis, suprema 

 ebracteata; fructibus oblongis, acutis, (vel brevi-rostratis) 

 ore integerrimis, multinervosis, apice subscabris, subdiver- 

 gentibus, gluma oblonga acuta hyalina longioribus. 



C. trisperma, Dewey car. 1. c. ix. p. 63. t. 3. f. 12. 



Culm 18 inches to 2 feet high, slender, prostrate, filiform, triquetrous, re- 

 markably smooth, leafy below. Leaves very narrow, linear, shorter than 

 the culm; sheaths striate, smooth. Spikelets 3, with about two sterile 



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