Monograph of North American Varices. LV* 



out not inflated, glabrous, of a brown color when ripe, with a short: 

 conical rostrum, bifid, and diverging at the orifice. Caryopsis trique- 

 trous, smooth on the margin. 



Hab. In woody swamps between Hillsborough and Chapel 

 Hill, North Carolina, forming very large evergreen tufts. 

 About pine-barren ponds, Georgia. Elliott. Fruit ripe in 

 July. 



Obs. The plant which we formerly considered as a new species, 

 and called C. sempervirens in the Analytical Table of Ca- 

 rices, appears to be the C. glaucescens of Mr. Elliott, whose 

 description was published only the last year. The latter 

 differs in some respects, but it is probably not distinct. 



95. Carex Elliottii, * 



C. spicis fertilibus tribus, subrotundis, infima longissime pe- 

 dunculata, cernua, superioribus sessilibus ; fructibus ovatis. 

 triquetris, glabris, puncticulatis, gluma ovata obtusa multo 

 longioribus. 

 C. castanea, Elliott sk. ii. p. 546. (nee. fVahl.) 

 C. fulva, Muhl. gram. p. 246. Herb. No. 365. 



Culm about two feet high, triquetrous, slender, purple at the base. Leaves 

 linear, nerved, scabrous on the margin, shorter than the culm. Sterile 

 spike about an inch long, much shorter than its three-nerved bracteal 

 leaf; glumes oblong, obtuse, brown, with a white margin. Fertile spikes 

 3, 9 — 16-flowered, the upper bearing at the summit a few sterile florets, 

 sessile, as well as the middle spike ; the lowest on a long peduncle ; 

 glumes ovate, obtuse, not emarginate nor mucronate. Fruit inflated, 

 ovate, obtusely triquetrous, distinctly nerved, terminating in a long 

 beak, 2 cleft at the summit, somewhat coriaceous, lucid and transverse- 

 ly striate, resembling under a lens, the surface of fine morocco leather. 

 Caryopsis triquetrous. Muhlenberg. 



Hab. In wet pine barrens. Chatham County, Georgia. 



Flowers in April. Elliott. 

 Obs. Mr. Elliott remarks that this Carex has a strong 



affinity to C.folliculata, but differs from it, in its fruit and 



friumes. Its habit is also coarser. 



