'328 Monograph of North American Varices. 



57. Carex novee anglice.* 



C. spica sterili brevi-pedunculata ; fructiferis2 — 3, sessilibus. 

 ovatis, paucifloris, subremotis ; fructibus ovali-subtrique- 

 tis, rostratis, minute pubescentibus, gluma ovata mucrona- 

 ta paulo-longioribus ; culmo gracili, subdecumbente. 



C. novas anglia?, Dewey car. 1. c. ix. p. 64. t. 2. f. 7. 



Culm 6 — 8 inches high, slender, leafy below, scabrous. Leaves very nar- 

 row, soft, smooth ; sheaths purplish at the base. Sterile spike erect, a 

 little obliquely pedunculate, from the same base with the upper fertile ; 

 glumes lanceolate, acuminate, carinate, brownish : fertile spikes usually 

 about 3, closely sessile, mostly 4-flowered, the lowest considerably dis- 

 tant, and supported by a long foliaceous bractea ; glumes ovate reddish 

 brown, with a green keel. Fruit a little shorter than the glume, some- 

 what inflated, small, with a pretty long straight rostrum, subpubescent 

 when young, nearly smooth when mature. 



Hab. On Saddle mountain, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 

 about 3000 feet above the sea. 



Obs. This species somewhat resembles a depauperate varie- 

 ty of C. varia, or marginata, but it differs in having but 

 two stigmas, subpubescent fruit, he. Flowers in June. 

 Dewey. 



58. Carex aurea, Nuttall. t. xxv. f. 2. 



C. spicis fructiferis subtends, oblongis, laxifloris, subpendulis, 

 subapproximatis, inferioribus pedunculatis ; fructibus obo- 

 vatis vel pyriformibus, obtusis, nervosis, ore integris, 

 gluma ovata acuta longioribus. 



C. aurea, Nutt. gen. ii. p. 205. 



C. pyriformis, Schw. anal. tab. 1. c. Dewey car. ix. p. 69. 



Culm 4 — 10 inches high, triangular, subprocumbent, leafy below, slender- 

 scabrous above. Leaves mostly radical, about as long as the culm, flat, 

 smooth, a line and a half broad. Sterile spike on a short peduncle, often 

 with a few fertile florets at the summit : glumes oblong, obtuse, brown, 

 with a whitish margin. Fertile spike usually S, florets loose and at 

 length rather distant with the rachis, flexuous ; upper one sessile, the 

 others on exsert peduncles half an inch or more in length ; glumes ovate, 



