Cancography. 377 



Culm 6 — 10 inches high, sub-prostrate and flaccid; leaves shorter 

 than the culm, sheathing, brownish towards the base ; spikes distinct, 

 staminate single, cylindric, with oblong scales sometimes slightly mu- 

 cronate; stigmas three; fruitful spikes one to three, pedunculate, pen- 

 dulous in fruit, with short sheaths ; fruit ovate and obtuse or elliptic 

 compressed and triquetrous, entire at the orifice ; scale oblong, or 

 ovate-obiong, obtuse, sometimes with a short point, about equalling 

 the fruit. 



This carex closely resembles C. lirnosa, as both Wahl. and Schk. 

 remark, and belongs in the section with this species. It is a more 

 delicate plant, its fruit more elliptic, and its pistillate scale is shorter 

 and obtuse, while the other is more lanceolate. In Europe it is 

 found in Lapland ; also at the Norway House in the northern re- 

 gions of America, by Dr. Richardson. 



No. 135. C. ovalis, Gooden. 



C. leporina, L. and WahL No. 35. 



Schk. Tab. B. fig. 8. 



Spicisandrogynis, basi staminiferis, subsenisovalibussessilibus sub- 

 approximatis ; fructibus distigmaticis ovato-ovalibus compressis acu- 

 minatis membranaceo-marginatis ore bifidis, squamam ovato-longam 



.oequantibus. 

 Culm twelve or twenty inches high, scabrous above, with leaves 



sheathing towards the base and nearly as long as the culm ; spikelets 

 about six, ovate or oval, sessile, tawny, staminate at the base; stig- 

 mas two; fruit ovato-oval, acuminate, compressed, membranaceous 

 at the margin, bifid at the orifice ; scale ovate, oblong, acutish, 

 about as long as the fruit, whitish on the edge ; plant light green. 



This is the C. leporina, L., but not his plant in Flor. Dan., which 

 is the C. lagopina of Wahl. and C. approximata of Hoppe and has 

 only three or four spikelets different from these. The C. ovalis, Good- 

 en. is found in England, &c, and lately on the Rocky mountains. By 

 the plant under this name Pursh probably meant C. scoparia. 



No. 136. C. Vahlii, Schk. 



C. alpina, Vahl. 



Sch. Tab. Gg, fig. 94 and Tab. Ppp, fig. 154. 



Spicis subternis, tristigmaticis, suprema androgyna oblonga infer- 



ne staminifera, ceteris pistilliferis ovatis vel oblongis subpeduncu- 



latisbrevi bracteatis; fructibus subrotundo-ellipticis triquetris ore in- 



tegris, squama ovata vel oblonga subacuta majoribus. 



