408 North American Cyyeracea. 



81. C. HiRSUTA, Willd. sp. 4. p. 252 ; Schkuhr, car. f. 

 172; Schw. ^ Ton: ! car. I. c. p. 322. 



C. triceps, Michx. ! fl. 2. p. 170 ; Elliolt, sk. 2. p. 538 ? 



C. vindula, ScJnv. S^- Torr.! car. I. c. p. 3,20. (excl. syn. Michx.) 



^. pedanculata, Schiv. ^ Torr. ! I. c. 



Hab. Canada to Florida ! ^. near Philipstown, New 

 York, Dr. Bar rati ! 



82. Carex complanata, Torr. ^ HooJc. 



Spikes 3 — 4, sessile, approximated towards the summit of 

 the culm, thick, oblong, the terminal one staminate below ; 

 fruit lenticular, obtuse, smooth, with an entire orifice, about 

 the length of the broadly ovate, rather acute scale. 



Culm about 18 inches high, very slender, triquetrous, with the angles 

 scabrous and very acute. Leaves narrow, channelled. Spikes 6 — 8 

 lines long, and 3 lines in diameter, greenish ; the terminal one largest, 

 somewhat obovate, flowers crowded. Fruit broadly oblong, much com- 

 pressed, not striate; orifice minute, entire. Stigmas 3. Scales as hroad 

 as the fruit, and somewhat exceeding it in length in the lower part of the 

 spike. 



Hab. Texas, T. Drummond! (Texan collection III. no. 

 424.) — This species has at first sight the appearance of C. 



virescens. 



83. C. VIRESCENS, Maid, in Willd. sp. 4. p. 251 ; Schhihr, 

 car. f. 147 ; Schw. ^ Torr.! car. I. c. 321. & /3. costata, I, c. 



Hab. Canada ^ to North Carolina ! 



84. C. GRACiLLiMA, Schw.! ajuil. tah. I. c. ; Deioeij ! car. 

 1. c. 8. p. 98. 



C. digitalis, Schw. Sf Torr. .' car. I. c. p. 324. t. 26. f. 1. not of MuM. 

 Hab. Sub-Arctic America to Kentucky ! 



