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Linn, ex Booth, (C. Desi, Wahl.) and C. conoidea, Schk., 
on the moist, grassy brow of a precipice of the Bluff; and to- 
wards the base of the Negro Mountain, we observed C. virescens 
and C. digitalis, Willd. 
_ Ina cool, sequestered nosis we fond the true Cardanune 
Kidondifolia, Michz., growing like a Water-cress, (for which it 
might be substituted, as its leaves have exactly the same taste,) 
but producing numerous stolons two to three or more feet in 
length. These runners arise not only from the base of the stem, 
‘but from the axils of the upper leaves, and very frequently from 
the apex of the weak ascending raceme itself, which is thus pro- 
longed into a leafy stolon, hanging down into the water or mud, 
where it takes root. Its habit and appearance are so unlike even 
the summer state of our northern C. rhomboidea, that we could 
~The figure of C. gracillima, in Prof. Kunze’s Supplement to Schkuhr’s Carices, 
is excellent, except that the immature peryginia are — with more distinct 
beaks than I have ever seen. To this genus, areal 26 haps the most extensive 
in ‘the vegetable kingdom, after Senecio, Mr. Sullivant Bas recently added another 
pecies, an account of which may be appended <i this note. As Dr. Boott had 
already dedicated it to the zealous discoverer, without being aware that he had 
distributed it under another name, I trust I may be allowed to publish the notes 
of this sedulous caricographer unchanged : 
Ris Suuiv VANTI Sin & spica ra solitaria cylindrica, fwmineis 3-5 cy- 
dricis erectis grac ibus pedunculatis laxifloris, superioribus contiguis, infima 
xcnenieae? = basi atte sterli stigmatibus tr ibus, perigyniis ellipticis 
emarginatis pellucido-punctatis apice marginibusque piloso-hispidis 
vamam ovatam ciliatam hispido-mucronatam subequantibus 
~“ Culmus bipedalis, gracilis, triqueter, pilis albis sparsis fon ngis eee 
pars _—e gerens 2-9-uncialis. Folia 2 lin. lata, culmo breviora, marginibus n 
Visque scabris. Bractea infima vaginans, foliacea, cualmum adzquans, relique sen- 
sim breviores, superiores evaginate demum setacee. Spica mascula uncialis, vix 
lineam lata, sessilis vel brevi-pedunculata: squame mutice, obtuse, apice cilio- 
late, nervo Resins, pallide castanee. Spice feeminee 3-5, laxiflore, 1-14 uncias 
nis, 1-13 lineas late ; superiores contigue ; infiina remota (uno exemplo basi 
composita) : squame pellucide ciliolate, nervo viridi scabro, hispido-mucronate, 
Peduneuli scabri, superiores sensim breviores. Perigynium (vix maturum) 13 
lin. longum, § lin. latum, viride, enervium? apice ve a= ciliatum, brevi- 
Stipitatum, squamam subequans vel eo paululum longius. Achenium immatu- 
rum.’’—Boott in litt. 
Hab. in sylvaticis prope Columbum, Ohionis, ubi detexit W. 8. Sullivant, cum 
C. sens C. gracillima, etc. vigens. Affinis C. arctate (C. sylvatice, auet. 
x el. Boott.—In exemplis fuperritie receptis, perigynia satis matura sunt 
canola; mon compresso-plana, enervia pent ad exceptis), apie vix 
rostrata. : s 
