Monograph of North American Carices. 317 



Obs. This species is nearly allied to C. scoparia, and to C. 

 straminea, especially to the latter. From the former it is 

 distinguished by its less acute and more distant spikes, and 

 its broader fruit, which, moreover, never becomes tawny, 

 as in C. scoparia. 



C. straminea differs strikingly in its very broad-winged fruit. 

 When growing in woods the spikes are silvery white, but 

 in meadows of a pale greenish color. 



38. Carex stellulata, Goodenough. 



C. spiculis 3-4, remotiusculis, superiori basi attenuata, 

 caeteris ovatis ; fructibus plano-convexis, patentibus, dein 

 reflexis, ovatis breviacuminatis, margine scabris. 



C. stellulata, Willd. sp. pi. iv. p. 236. Schk. car. t. C. f. 14. 



Culm 8-18 inches high, slender. Leaves longer than the culm, chiefly 

 radical. Spikelets mostly 4, the lowest sometimes furnished with a long 

 foliaceous bractea, the upper one much attenuated by the sterile glumes : 

 the rest cylindrical-oblong when young, but at length ovate or roundish. 

 Glumes ovate, rather obtuse, two-thirds the length of the fruit, green. 

 Fruit broad-ovate, when fully ripe almost cordate at the base, with a 

 short abrupt acumination ; margin distinct, but not winged ; apex nearly 

 entire. 



Hab. Wet places, especially along woods. New- York to 



Carolina. Flowers in May. 



Obs. The North American plant appears to be altogether 



identical with the European. 



39. Carex scirpoides, Schkuhr. 



C. spiculis quaternis, ovatis, obtusis, approximatis, suprema 

 clavata ; fructibus ovatis, bidentatis, plano-convexis, erecto- 

 patulis (nee reflexis,) bidentatis, basi subcordatis, margine 

 ciliato-serrulatis, gluma ovata obtusa longioribus. 



C. scirpoides, Willd. sp. pi. iv. p. 237. Schk. car. t. Ziz. 

 f. 180. Purshji. i. p. 37. JMuhl. gram. p. 225. Dewey 

 car. 1. c. viii. p. 96. Elliott sk. ii. p. 532. 



C. triceps, Mich.fi. ii. p. 170. 



