Monograph of North American Carices. 319 



Obs. The spikes, when mature, are usually of a greenish 

 colour ; sometimes they are silvery white, in which state 

 the plant appears to be C. canescens of Linnaeus and Smith. 



41. Carex tenera, Dewey. 



C. spicis subquinis, obovatis, remotiusculis, sessilibus, inferne 

 attenuatis, infima bracteata ; fructibus ovatis, compressis, 

 rostratis, subulatis,nervosis, ciliato-serratis, glumaoblongo- 

 lanceolata majoribus. 



C. tenera, Dewey car. 1. c. viii. p. 97. h ix. t. 3. f. 9. mala. 



Culm 15-30 inches high, slender, somewhat five-sided, leafy towards the 

 base, with a slender flexuous rachis. Leaves much shorter than the 

 culm. Spikelets 3-5, somewhat clavate and lengthened below, of a 

 brownish colour, distant from each other about their length ; the whole 

 nodding. Fertile glumes about two-thirds the length of the fruit, and 

 tawney. Dewey. 



Hab. In moist meadows ; Massachusetts. Flowers in May. 



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

 cography. We have no specimens of it from its discoverer, 

 but a Carex agreeing in almost every respect with the 

 above description, is rather common in the Highlands of 

 New- York. According to Professor Dewey, it resembles 

 C. scoparia, but differs essentially in the form of its fruit. 



42. Carex remota, Lin. 



C. spiculis alternis, remotis ; bracteis foliaceis, longissimis, 

 suffultis ; fructibus ovatis, acuminatis, bifidis, compressius- 

 culis. 



C. remota, Willd. sp. pi iv. p. 239. SchJc. car. t. E. f. 23. 

 Richard, app. Frank, nar. ed. 2. p. 35. 



Hab. In the woody region of Arctic America. Dr. Richard- 

 son. 



Obs. We have seen no American specimens of this Carex. 



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