418 No/th American Cyijeniccw. 



126. C. FLAVA, Linn.; Michx.! jl. 2. 171; SchJaihr, 

 car. f. 36. 



Hab. Canada ! and Northern States ! west to Arkansas. 



127. C. Elliottii, Sclav. ^ Tvrr. ! car. I. c. p. 3-07, 



C. fulva .' Mahl. ! gram. p. 246, not of Goodenovgli. 

 C. castanea, Elliott, sk. 2. p. 546, not of Wuhlenberg. 

 C. lonchocarpa, Spraig. sysi. 3. p. S17, (fide Dewey). 

 C. Baklwinia, Deicey ! car. I. c. 26. p. 107, t. T. f. 61, 



Hab. North Carolina, Mr. Groom. ! and Mr. Cm-tis ! 

 Georgia, Elliot f ; Florida, Dr. Balchcin! — We are confident 

 that we have at length settled the synonomy of this species, 

 which one or two mistakes had involved in almost inextricable 

 confusion. The description in Dewey's Caricography cor- 

 responds in a good degree with the true plant, being chiefly 

 derived from that of Elliott and of Muhlenberg ; but his figure 

 represents a difierent plant, which agrees neither widi Elliott's 

 description nor wiUi his own. Prof. Dewey does not state 

 from whence his specimen was obtained ; we suspect it to be 

 C. oligospcrma, since we liave a specimen of that plani which 

 Prof. Dewey has nahied C. EUiottii. On the other hand, our 

 plant agrees minutely witli the description of Elliott, who states 

 his plant to be the C. fnlva of ^luhlenberg ; and, to make 

 assurance doubly sure, we find a specimen from Elhott himself 

 with the C. fulva in Muhlenberg's herbarium. Elliott, per- 

 ceiving that the plant was not the C. fulva of Europe, changed 

 the name to C. castanea, which unfortunately had been pre- 

 viously applied to a difl'erent species, and the name of its 

 estimable discoverer was tlierefore given, it appears, both in 

 the monograph of North American Carices, and by Prof. 

 Dewey. The latter being somehow misled by the specimen 

 figured in his Caricography, afterwards dedicated the real C. 

 Elliottii to Dr. Baldwin. The distant and long pedunculate 

 fertile spike seems to be only of occasional occurrence, since 

 it is not observed in the eight specimens now before us. 



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