•352 Monograph of North American Carices. 



Hab. In meadows and wet woods; Canada to Georgia; 

 common. Flowers in June. 



Obs. Sometimes this species occurs scarcely a foot in height. 

 Muhlenberg does not describe the fertile spikes correctly, 

 but the specimens in his herbarium exactly resemble our 

 • plant. 



88. C arex podocarpa, R. Brown. 



C. spicis fertilibus binis, pendulis, oblongis ; fructibus ellip- 

 ticis, brevissime rostellatis, integris, laevibus, acheniisque 

 pedicellatis ; foliis inferioribus abbreviatis. 



C. podocarpa, R. Brown, in Rich. app. Frank, nar. ed. 2. 

 p. 3G. 



Hab. On the barren grounds of Arctic America. Dr. Rich- 

 ardson. 



3. Pistilliferous spikes on long peduncles, nearly destitute 

 of sheaths. 



89. Carex umbellata, Schkuhr. 



C. cespitosa; spicis fertilibus subquaternis, ovatis, pauciflo- 

 ris ; una sessili, in summo culmo, caeteris pedunculatis ; 

 pedunculis subradicalibus, quasi umbellatis ; fructibus 

 ovatis, acuminato-rostratis, subpubescentibus, gluma ovata 

 acuminata eequalibus. 



C. umbellata, fVilld. sp. pi. iv. p. 290. Schk. car. t. Www. 

 f. 170. Purshfl. i. p. 44. Muhl. gram. p. 256. Dewey car. 

 1. c. x. p. 31. 



Culm frequently not more than half an inch high, but late in the season, 

 and in favourable situations, growing to a span in height. Leaves radi- 

 cal, longer than the culm, erect, narrow, scabrous. Sterile spike soli- 

 tary, oblong, on a short oblique peduncle, at the foot of which there is a 

 nearly sessile fertile spike ; glumes ovate, acute, pale brown. Fertile 

 spikes about 4, sometimes 5, or only 3, ovate, 6 — 8-flowered ; one of 

 them, (sometimes 2) situated at the summit of the culm, ebracteate ; 

 the rest on peduncles of nearly equal length, which issue from the ap- 



