368 Monograph of North American Varices. 



there are 3) sessile and few-flowered, the others on filiform exsert pe- 

 duncles 1 — 2 inches long-, at first erect, but at length somewhat cernu- 

 ous ; glumes lanceolate, dilated at the base, acute, brown, with the keel 

 green. Fruit short, ovate, much inflated, marked with distant elevated 

 nerves, rostrum long and acuminate ; orifice bifid and scabrous. 



Hab. In bog and wet meadows. In various parts of Penn- 

 sylvania. Philipstown in the Highlands of NewYork ; 

 abundant. Dr. Barratt. Deerfield, Massachusetts. Mr. 

 Hitchcock and Dr. Cooley. Sheffield, Massachusetts. Prof. 

 Dewey. 



Obs. Spikes light green when mature. This species is not 

 described by Muhlenberg, although there are good speci- 

 mens of it in his Herbarium. 



110. Carex pellita, Muhlenberg. 



C. spicis sterilibus binis, oblongis ; fructiferis binis, cylindra- 

 ceis, remotis, erectis, superiore sessili ; fructibus ovatis, 

 subtriquetris, breve-rostratis, pilosis, bicuspidatis, gluma 

 oblonga aristata subsequalibus. 



C. pellita, Willd. sp. pi iv. p. 302. Schk. car. t. Nnn. f. 149. 

 et 150. Purshfi. i. p. 44. Muhl. gram. p. 258. Elliott sk. 

 ii. p. 554. Dewey car. 1. c. ix. p. 70. 



C. striata, Mich.fi. ii. p. 174. 



Culm two and a half feet high, erect, subterete below, triquetrous and 

 scabrous above, leafy. Leaves rather narrow, erect, somewhat rigid, 

 smooth, flat, longer than the culm. Sterile spikes 2 — 3, (sometimes 1) the 

 upper pedunculate, oblong, and oblong-cylindrical ; glumes ovate, dark 

 brownish, acute, the lower ones mucronate, ciliate. Fertile spikes gen- 

 erally but 2, long-cylindrical, or ovate-oblong, densely fruited, on pedun- 

 cles shorter than the sheaths ; bractece surpassing the culm ; glumes ovate 

 or lanceolate, cuspidate, dark brown, with keel greenish, longer or 

 shorter than the fruit. Fruit ovate, striate with a short rostrum, sub- 

 ereet, densely pubescent ; orifice bicuspidate. 



Hab. In wet meadows; Canada to Pennsylvania; com- 

 mon near New-York and in the Highlands. Flowers in 

 Mav. 



