350 Monograph of North American Caiices. 



Culm about 8 inches high, very leafy below ; stolouiferous at the base. 

 Leaves narrow, smooth; the lower ones very short. Fertile spikes 

 2 — 3, ovate, black, all of them pedunculate and nodding - . 



Hab. In Labrador. 



Obs. Our specimens of this Carex, exactly agree with the 

 European one figured by Schkuhr. 



85. Carex capillaris, Lin. 



C. spicis fertilibus subternis, longe-pedunculatis, cernuis, sub- 

 sexfioris ; fructibus ellipticis, rostratris, distantibus, ore 

 obliquo, gluma ovata longioribus. 



C. capillaris, Willd. sp.pl. iv. p. 290. Schk. car. t. O. f. 56. 

 Richard, app. Frank, nar. ed. 2. p. 36. 



Culm 4 — 6 inches. 



Hab. In the woody region of Arctic America. Dr. Rich' 



ardson. 

 Obs. Our specimens were presented by Dr. Richardson, and 



exactly agree with the European plant. 



8G. Carex sylvatica, Hudson. 



C. spicis fertilibus subquaternis, remotis, filifornibus, sub- 

 densifloris, pedunculis cernuis ; fructibus ovatis, rostratis 

 bifidis, gluma ovato mucronata duplo longioribus. 



C. sylvatica, Willd. sp. pi. iv. p. 296 Schk. car. t. LI. f. 101. 

 Hudson Jl. Ang. p. 353. Dewey car. 1. c. x. p. 40. 



C. Drimeja, Lin. supp. 414. Wahl. No. 79. 



Culm 12 — 18 inches high, erect, slender, compresso-triquetrous, scabrous 

 on the angles, leafy. Leaves shorter than the culm, 2 lines broad, flat, 

 erect. Sterile spike on a peduncle about a quarter of an inch long, slen- 

 der, scarcely extending beyond the uppermost spike ; glumes lanceolate, 

 acute, white, with a green carina. Fertile spikes usually 4, sometimes 5, 

 about an inch and a half long, on exserted filiform peduncles, at length 

 more or less cernuous, but occasionally nearly erect ; the uppermost 



