140 Caricography. 
Art. XVIII.—Caricography ; by Prof. C. Dewey. ‘ 
Appendix, cobitiuued from Vol. XIV. p. 354. 
aa, No. 127. Carex decomposita, Muh. 
~ 3 ai Muh. Gram. No. 58. 
MEW eo ad 8. “a. Vol. X. p. 276. 
Ta gs Tab. S. fig. 58. 
Spits detontposita vel paniculata ; spiculis androgynis superné sta- 
¢ miniferis alternis confertis permultis distigmaticis ; fructibus - ovatis 
triquetris brevi-rostratis vel aéutiusculis parvis nigris glabris, — 
evatam acuminatam albam ‘subaequantibus. 
Culm two or three feet high, large, triquetrous, striate, glabrous, 
tawny below, scabrous above, leafy’; ‘leaves linear-lanceolate, long, 
often much surpassing ’the culm, distinctly nerved, rough on the’ ‘edge 
with dark and striate sheaths towards the base ; spike decompound 
or paniculate, green;’ spikelets very numerous and dense,’ lower 
ones with leafy bracts arranged closely along many branchlets, sta- 
miniferous above; stigmas two; fruit ovate, triquetrous, acute or 
short-beaked, bidentate, black aid glabrous ; pistillate ‘séale- ovate, 
acuminate, white with a green keel, membranaceous, equalling or a 
little surpassing the fruit. Color of the plant light green. 
Grows in Cherokee—Muh. Found abundantly by: ‘Dri Folwell 
in a’swamp near the river Raisin, in Michigan Territory, ahd sent to 
Dr. Gray of Utica, N. Y., who has obligingly sent me specimen 
This plant has commonly been considered avariety of C. pill 
as such it was introduced into this Journal, Vol. X. p. 2760 It is 
however so different from that species, that it well deserves the name 
given it by Muh. » The discovery of this plant proves the correct- 
ness of that distinguished botanist in one more particular. On C. 
paniculata, L. the. fruit is ovate-lanceolate, larger and longer, and 
the scale is longer and narrower in proportion, and tawny on the back: 
No. 128, C. panicea, L. 
Wahl. No. 96. Pers. No. 156. 
Schk. Tab. Ll. fig. 100. 
Spicis. distinctis tristigmaticis ; spica staminifera solitaria ; spicis 
pistilliferis subbinis subexserté pedunculatis laxifloris remotiusculis, 
infima longo-pedunculata ; fructibus subglobosis obtusis ore integris, 
squama ovata acutiuscula paulo majoribus. 
