50 ‘Three new Plants of Central Ohio. 
Dr. Torrey has given some interesting remarks on this subject, 
in the Annals of the ee of Natural bree New _we 
A, p. 88. ' 
2, Fepra umpricata (sp. nov.): fructu subgloboso-inflato. i 
bro apice unidentato antice profunde umbilicato, loculis sterilibus 
fertili multoties majoribus, bracteis si bspatulato- -linearibus e eciliatis. 
Hab. Around Columbus, Ohio, 
Obs. This species has the appearance of F. radiata, and F". 
Fagopyrum, Torr. & Gray | (which also occurs: in the central 
part of Ohio,) but is more nearly allied to F. pumila, of the 
south of Europe. _ The inflated ‘sterile cells are in contact from 
top to bottom, and have a common dissepiment, (which, how- 
ever, is often wanting or incomplete i in the full-grown fruit,) but 
there is a deep circular depression in the middle of the anterior 
face. The flattened fertile cell is one-nerved on the back, under 
a lens; and is produced at the apex into a blunt, somewhat con- 
spicuous tooth. : 
3. ELeocuaris comrsistsa Cap nov.): culmis ceespitosis valde 
compressis (in siccis spiraliter tortis), spica. oblongo-ovata acuta, 
squamis ovato-lanceolatis acutis ad apicem sepissime bi 
staminibus 3, stylo trifido, achenio obovato-pyriformi trigono 
punctatulo nitido apice in breve collum basi styli pbhesvinto-ca 
ica coronatum constricto, setis nullis. 
Hab. Wet places in the Darby Plains, fifteen miles west of 
Columbus, Ohio. 
Descr. Culm cespitose, 12-18 inches high, slender, ‘much 
compressed, strongly striate, closely invested at the base with a 
single, horizontally truncate sheath. Spike 3-5 lines in length, 
oblong-ovate, terete, acute, many-flowered. Scales ovate-lan- 
ceolate, acute, of a rather firm texture, dark purple on the back, 
with a broad white transparent margin, entire, except the apex, 
which (even in the young state) is deeply 2-cleft, the segments 
contorted. Bristles none. Achenium obovate, pyriform, obtusely 
triangular, of a light golden color, shining, minntely pitted lon- 
gitudinally ; the raised margins of the pits traversing it in undu- 
lating lines. ‘Tubercle sage small, not one-sixth the length 
A eted into a. short ange hes 
bie agian, 
