Monograph of North American Carices. 331 



Obs. Mr. Brown observes that this species is allied to C. 

 marginata. In our specimens the spikes are much smaller, 

 . and the fruit almost hispidly pubescent. It has a very dif- 

 ferent appearance from the C. marginata as it generally 

 occurs. 



62. Carex vestita, Willdenow. 



C. spica sterili solitaria (vel geminatis, suprema elongata), 

 pedunculata, cylindraceo-oblonga ; fertilibus binis, ovato- 

 oblongis, sessilibus, subapproxhnatis, apice interdum sta- 

 miniferis ; fructibus ovatis, subtriquetris, nervosis, brevi- 

 rostratis, pubescentibus, gluma ovata submucronata paulo 

 longioribus. 



C. vestita, Willd. sp. pi. iv. p. 263. Schk. car. t. Bbbb. f. 

 182. Purshfl. i. p. 41. Muhl. gram. p. 238. Dewey 

 car. 1. c. ix. p. 261. Elliott sk. ii. p. 542. 



Culm about two feet high, triquetrous, scabrous on the margin, leafy below. 

 Leaves shorter than the culm, 2 lines or more in breadth, scabrou s, the 

 lower ones abbreviate. Sterile spike solitary, but frequently geminate ; 

 the upper one on an elongated rigid peduncle, the lower closely sessile 

 and shorter ; glumes oblong, brown, white and membranaceous on the 

 margin. Fertile spikes 2, (rarely 3) rather large, occasionally bearing 

 a few sterile florets at the summit, with long fjliaceous rigid bractese at 

 the base; glumes ovate, mucronate, carinate, brown, with the keel 

 green. Fruit somewhat triangular, pubescent ; rostrum very short and 

 bifid. 



Hab. In wet sandy ground ; Massachusetts to Georgia ; 



rather rare. Flowers in the latter part of May and the 



beginning of June. 

 Obs. This species grows in tufts ; according to Muhlenberg, 



it sometimes occurs with two stigmas. 



63. Carex dasycarpa, Muhlenberg. 



C. spica sterili subsessili, parva : fertilibus subternis, subap- 

 proxiinatis, inferioribus brevi-pedunculatis ; fructibus ova- 

 to-triquetris, villoso-hispidis, gluma acuminata longioribus. 



