250, Caricography. 



Culm four to six inches high, slender, erect, stiff, smooth, longer 

 than the sub-hristle-form leaves, which are sheathed at the base ; 

 spike one, staminate above; stigmas three; fruit ovate, trique- 

 trous acute or sub-rostrate, somewhat diverging, smooth; scales 

 all oblong, obtuse, tawny white on the edge, and mostly shorter 

 than the fruit ; color of plant a pale green, and of spike, a dirty 



brown. , 



Found by Dr. Richardson on the Rocky Mountains. It is nearly 



related to C. spicata, Schk. Tab. D. fig. 15, if it is not Indeed the 

 same plant which inhabits the Pyrennees. ' 



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No. 156. C. Redowskiana, Meyer. 



Tab. Y. fig. 80. 



Spica unica dioica oblonga ; fructibus lineari-oblongis utrinque at- 

 tenuatis Isvibus ore bilobo hyalinis, squamara obtusam oyatam m 

 margine scariosam sub-duplo longioribus ; culmo laevi, fohis trique- 



tro-setaceis. 



Culm five to eight inches high, triquetrous, very slender, erect, 

 sulcate, glabrous, leafy towards the base ; leaves setose, triquetrous, 

 glabrous, nearly equalling the culm ; stigmas two, scales with a broad 

 white scarious margin ; fruit smooth, glabrous, nerved, and with an 



obtuse two-lobed orifice. 



Found in Karr.tschatka hy Dr. Redowski, and on the Rocky 



Mounta 



No. 157. C. Bad-ana, D. 



Tab. Y. fig. 81. 



Spica unica superne staminifera; fructibus tristigmaticis oyato- 

 globosis sub-conico-rostratis fuscis paucis ore scarioso Isvissimis, 

 squama ovata acuta membraaacea paulo longioribus. 



Culm four to six Inches, triquetrous, sub-erect, nearly smooth, 

 feafy towards the base ; leaves flat, linear-lanceolate, shorter than 

 the culm, and lower ones the shortest ; spike single, with oblong 

 and obtusish white scales above, and about four pistillate flowe ^ 

 below with three "stigmas ; fruit ovate, spherical and tapenng mto ^ 

 -._ i,„„u .,„„„ o tu o«ri ,u,i' Krrnjun w'lth an orifice laceratea 



smooth 



or scarious. 



This is a beautiful species; and was found by Dr. Richardso 

 in British America, near Carlton House. 



