Monograph of North American Carices. 367 



lis, acuminato-rostratis, inflatis, bifurcatis, gluma lanceo 

 lata attenuata longioribus. 

 C. Schweinitzii, "Dewey car. 1. c. ix. p. 68. 



Culm about a foot high, acutely triquetrous, leafy, scabrous above, rather 

 slender. Leaves rather narrow, smooth, carinate. Sterile spikes 1 — 2, 

 the inferior one mostly small, the other long and slender; glumes lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate, pale brown. Fertile spikes 3, sometimes 4, some- 

 what curved, and rather pendulous, not very densely fruited, of a squar- 

 rose appearance, an inch and a half in length ; upper one sessile, the 

 rest on included peduncles ; glumes lanceolate, attenuate into a long- 

 subulate point, about two thirds the length of the fruit, pale brown. 

 Fruit ovate, inflated, spreading, with a long conical rostrum, smooth, 

 nerved, bidentate. 



Hab. In wet sandy soil ; near Hope, Sussex County, New- 

 Jersey. Williamstown, Massachusetts, and Pownal, Ver- 

 mont. Prof. Dewey. Westfield, Massachusetts. Mr. E. 

 Davis. Flowers in June. 



Obs. Spikes becoming light straw color. A very distinct 

 species. 



109. Carex bullata, Schkuhr. 



C. spicis staminiferis subtemis; fructiferis binis, oblongo- 

 cylindraceis, laxiusculis, exserte pedunculatis subnutanti- 

 bus, distantibus ; fructibus ovato-globosis, inflatis, erectis, 

 glabris, costatis, rostrato-acuminatis, ore bifido, gluma 

 lanceolata duplo longioribus. 



C. bullata, Willd. sp. pi. iv. p. 309. Sch/c. car. t. Uuu. f. 

 166. Purshfl. i. p. 45. Dewey car. ix. p. 7J. Elliott sk. 

 ii. p. 556. 



Culm a foot and a half or two feet high, erect, slender, triquetrous, smooth, 

 leafy. Leaves longer than the culm, rather narrow, smooth, slightly 

 scabrous on the margin. Sterile spikes 3 — 4, sometimes but 2, alter- 

 nate, slender, cylindrical, on an elongated common peduncle; glumes 

 ovate-lanceolate, rather obtuse, pale brown, with a green keel. Fertile 

 ipikes 2 — 3, oblong-cylindrical, thick, but not densely fruited, two 

 inches or more distant, sometimes very remote, uppermost one (when 



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