North American Cypcraceu. 419 



128. C. FOLLicuLATA, Liiw. sj). 4. no. 13S7 ; Iludo-e, 

 ill Li/m. trans. 7, p. 9S, t. 9. /. 4 ; Gray ! in ami. lyc. nat. 

 hist. Ncii:-YorIc, 4. p. 2-35, not o[ SchJcalir, JFahL, Sec. 



C. rostrara, Michx. ! fl. 2. p. 173. 

 C. foliiculala, t^. xanthophysa, Muhl. ! gram. p. 241. 

 C. xaiilhophysa, WaJiL car. no. 73 ; Schu\ ^- 7'orr. ! car. I. c. p. 

 329, &c. 



Hab. British America ! to S. Carolina. For remarks 

 upon this species see Gray, in the Annals of the Lyceum, 3. 

 p. 235. 



The C. foUicidata of ElUott is certainly not C. intumcscens ; 

 but his description does not agree in every respect with the 

 genuine species. 



129. C. suBULATA, Michx. ! ji. 2. p. 173 ; Schw. ^ Tory. ! 

 car. I. c. p. 340. t. 27. f. 1. 



C. Collinsii, Natl. gen. 2. p. 29S. 



C. Michauxii, Dcivey ! car. I. c. 10. p. 27. 



Hab. Canada, Mic/iavx ; and cedar s\Yamps of New 

 Jersey ! 



130. Carex turgescens. 



Fertile spikes about 3, few-flowered, distant ; the uppermost 

 nearly sessile at the base of the elongated, short-pedunculate 

 staminate spike ; the second on a nearly included peduncle ; 

 the lowest remote, very long peduncled ; fruit expanding hori- 

 zontally ; perigynium ovate, conspicuously and evenly marked 

 with numerous salient striae, acuminated into a slender straio-ht 

 beak, with a bifid orifice, about twice the length of the ovate 

 scale ; leaves and sheaths minutely scabrous. 



C. folliculata, Elliott, sJc. 2. p. 545 ? 



Culm 2 — 3 feet high, slender, and, whh ihe leaves and phoafh^, Qfrifite 

 and minutely puncticulate. Cauline leaves linear, narrow, .tliortrr than 

 the culm. Fertile spikes 8 — 14-flowered ; the uppermost nearly sessile 



