Prof. Dewey on Caricography. 29 
The feat with the hand tube mentioned by Dr. Bailey is surely 
rather a tour de force for the observer, than for the objective o 
the “ Yankee Backwoodsman ;” who, if report speaks truly, is a 
highly educated American gentleman, with taleuts and acquire- 
ments sufficient to remove any obstacles to the attainmeut of a 
position amongst the first opticians of his day. 
Art. VI.—Caricography ; by Prof. C. Dewey. 
(Continued from vol. viii, p. 350.) 
No. 241. C. lupuliformis, Sartwell, lupulina, Muh., var. polys- 
tachya, Schw. and Tor. in Mon. Cyp. Tor., No. 132, p. 420. 
Spicis staminiferis 1-3 ohlongis, snprema longo-pedunculata 
squamas lanceolatas acutas habente, inferis perbrevibus sessilibus 
subbracteatis: pistilliferis 3-5 longo-cylindraceis superne aggre- 
gatis subsessilibus, infima nunc subdistante nunc remota exserte 
ongo-pedunculata, folioso-bracteatis sublaxifloris; fructibus éi- 
stigmaticis globoso-ovatis inflatis teretibus scabrostratis sessilibus 
Striatis glabris bicornibus, squama ovata cuspidata plusquam duplo 
longioribus. oe 
Culm 2-3 feet high, erect, large, smooth on its angles, wit 
long leafy bracts and with the lanceolate rough-edged and reticu- 
late lsaves surpassing the culm; stamiuate spikes 1-3, cylindric, 
slightly bracteate, with long lanceolate scales, the upper spike 2-4 
inches Jong and pedunculate, the lewer short and sessile and 
rarely androgynous; pistillate spikes 3-5, cylindric, 2-3 inches 
long, clustered above and nearly sessile, erect or slightly diverging, 
the lowest often quite remote and long exsertly pedunculate, all 
with leafy bracts and the lower sheathing; stigmas three; fruit 
globose-ovate, tapering into a long and serrulate and two forked 
beak, quite sessile ; pistillate scale ovate, cuspidate, scarcely half 
as long as ‘the fruit; achenium rhomboid with a prominent node 
on the angles. F 
Differs from C. lupulina, Muh., in its much longer and more 
numerous spikes, its globose ovate fruit, closely sessile, with its 
serrulate beak, its ovate scale, its rhomboid and nodose achenium, 
its nearly bractless staminate spikes, its general and glabrous ap- 
pearance, and its coming to maturity near a month later. It 
Seems not to be U. gigantea, Rudge, which has been considered 
another form cf C. lupulina. In several respects the plant now 
described differs from these two like C. Grayit, Carey, from 
C. intumescens, Rudge. ; 
Found about lakes, ponds and marshes in the northern states 
and Canada—not very common 
