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No. 169. Carex capitata, L. 
Schk. Tab. Y. fig. 80. 
Wahl. No. 2, and Willd. 
Monograph. Cyp. Torrey, p. 387. 
Unispicata simplici androgyna ; spica superné staminifera sub- 
globosa distigmatica ; fructibus densis ovato-rotundis compressis 
convexo-concavis perglabris subacutis, squama ovato-obtusa lon- 
gioribus ; foliis filiformibus. 
“Culm three to seven inches high, grows in tufts,” Robbins ; 
triangular, rather scabrous, terminated with a single globose spike 
of pistillate flowers, and with the stamens ona slight prolongation 
of the upper part, as depicted by Schkuhr ; leaves slender, rising 
from sheaths towards the base ; pistillate scale roundish ovate, 
obtusish, more than half the length of the fruit. 
Wahlenberg credited this species only to the mountains of Lap- 
land. It has since been found across Northern America to the 
Rocky Mountains. Torrey. In 1829 it was found by Dr. Rob- 
bins on the Alpine region of the White Mountains of New Hamp- 
shire, and Mr. Oakes of Ipswich, Mass., has —— 
forward it for publication. 
No. 170. C. tenuiflora, Wahl. No. 48. 
Sehk. Tab. Eeee. fig. 187. 
Mon. Cyp. Torrey, p. 392. 
Spica composita ; spiculis alternis binis vel ternis approximatis 
ovatis, inferne staminiferis ; fructibus distigmaticis ovatis oblongis 
eaeee ee teomiie, squamam sees nant neutinaculam 
ibus. 
‘Culm: about «foot long; “in small tts, and prostate,” (Rob- 
bins,) triangular, slightly scabrous, slender, 
base ; leaves narrow, flattish, linear, shetiae? than aha culm ; be 
longo in the subdivision with C. curta, Gooden. 
Wahlenberg credited this species to the moist grassy fields of 
Lapland. The late indefatigable explorers of Arctic America 
found it. In 1829 it was found by Dr. Robbins, both in a sphag- 
nous swamp in Burlington, Vt., and in wet places with C. disperma, 
D. in Salem, Vt. uaa with the following by Mr. Oakes. 
0. 171. C. capillaris, L. 
Schk. nee O. fig. 56. Wahl. No. 91. 
Mon. Cyp. Tor. p. 416. 
Spicis distinctis ; spica staminifera solitaria parva; spicis frue- 
tiferis tristigmaticis subternis oblongis paucifloris laxifloris longi~ 
