370 Monograph of North American Carices. 



rostratis, glabris, nervosis bidentatis, gluma ovata valde 

 acuminata brevioribus. 

 C. cherokeensis, Schw. an. tab. 1. c. C. anonymus, Herb. 



Muhl. No. 382. 



Culm a foot in height, triquetrous, suberect, slender, somewhat flexupus. 

 Leaves shorter than the culm, rather rigid, erect, glaucous, smooth, 

 subcanaliculate ; sheaths purple at the base. Sterile spikes 2, — 4 sub- 

 cylindric, of a whitish appearance, termipalene much larger than the 

 rest, on a short peduncle ; glumes oblong, not mucronate, except the 

 lowest. Fertile spikes 4 — 5, rather loose-flowered, all on moderately 

 long filiform peduncles, often almost pendulous; glumes ovate, or ovate 

 lanceolate, ending in a long acuminate point, but not mucronate, whitish 

 with a green keel. Fruit ovate, with a long rostrum, slightly nerved, 

 bidentate, of a shining white color. 



Hab. In the Cherokee country. Mrs. Gambold. 



Obs. Very fine specimens of this Carex we found in the 

 Muhlenbergian Herbarium, but without a name. It is 

 probably the C. recurva, of the Descrip. gram. p. 262. but 

 certainly not of Schkuhr. Its white spikes and squarrose 

 glumes give it a peculiar appearance. 



113. Carex longirostris *. 



C. spicis sterilibus ternis, brevibus ; fructiferis binis vel ter- 

 ms, cylindraceis, laxifloris, demum pendulis, longe-pedun- 

 culatis, subdistantibus ; fructibus ovatis, basi subglobosis 

 longissime rostratis, glabris bifidis, gluma lanceolata 

 paulo longioribus. 

 C. longirostris, Torrey in Schw. an. tab. 1. c. Dewey car. 1. c. 



ix. p. 257. 

 Culm about two feet high, slender, triquetrous, scabrous above. Leaves 

 shorter than the culm, flat, scabrous on the margin, shining. Sterile 

 spikes 2 — 3, short, erect, the lowest often bearing a few capsules at the 

 base ; glumes lanceolate, acuminate, hyaline ; keel brown. Fertile 

 tpikes 2 — 3, on filiform exsert peduncles, cylindric, about an inch and a 

 half long, spreading, and at length pendulous ; uppermost one often ster- 

 ile at the summit; peduncles 2 — 4 inches long; glumes lanceolate or 

 orate, aad cuspidate, white, with a broad green keel, mostly rather 



