172 Prof. Dewey on Caricography. 
Culm about a foot high, erect, leafy, triquetrous, smooth, striate, 
terminated by a head of dense and sessile ovate spikelets; leaves 
linear, flat and striate, longer than the culm ; bracts long and le 
under the spikelets; stigmas two; spikelets staminate below ; 
fruit ovate, long, slender, subtriquetrous, scabrous on the margin, 
and slightly stipitate ; pistillate scale lanceolate, cuspidate, white, 
a little shorter than the fruit ; whole plant pale green. 
and Wood in Jefferson Co., N. Y., the 
last summer; common on the continent of Europe, but not found 
before in our country. 
No. 207. C. estivalis, M. A. Curtis. Sill. Amer. pant Vol. xlii, 
28; A. Gray. Kunze’s Carices, p. 112, T 
Spicis 3-5 longo-cylindraceis, gracilibus, 9 laxiftoris, 
suprema androgyna, inferne staminifera, inferioribus exserto-pe- 
a. Jongo-foliaceo-bracteatis ; fructibus tristigmaticis, : 
s, reti-subtriquetris, substipitatis vix ners) ore integris, 
obtu x duplo Guaiebur: 
vaginisque Spee ach: subpubescent be 
"oun 16-24 inches high, erect, triquetrous, slightly scabrous 
on the edges above, leafy towards the base ; leaves long, narrow, 
flat, striate, shorter than sec culm, and with the lower sheaths 
subpubescent ; bracts of the lower spikes long and leafy and sur- 
passing the culm ; spikes 3-5, long and slender, cylindric, loose- 
flowered, suberect, lower ones pedicellate, upper nearly sessile, the 
highest androgynous and staminate below and with staminiferous 
scales ovate and acute ; stigmas three ; fruit ovate, tapering, sub- 
triquetrous, slightly nerved, scarcely rostrate, smooth, at the orifice 
entire, sometimes slightly recurved at the apex ; pstlliferous scale 
ovate, oblong, obtuse, slightly mucronate, nearly half as long as 
the fruit, white on the edge e and green on the keel; ae of the 
plant light green. 
Mountains of North Carolina in tufts; Rev. M. A. Curtis. 
Named from its flowering long in July and August; A. Gray. 
This species much resembles C. gracillima, Schw. , but obvious 
characters separate them, as was early remarked byi its ve 
Mr. Curtis, an acute observer and successful botanist. It i 
beautiful species. 
No. 208. C-. lepidocarpa, Bee Kunze’s Carices, p. 52, Tab. 
Spica staminifera, erecta, triquetra, cylindracea, cum sq 
oblongis obtusis ; ; pistilliferis subbinis, 1-3, tristigmaticis rotutialbe 
Ovatis, seepe ageregatis, nune remotis, densifloris, foliaceo-b: 
atis, infima interdum per-remota pedunculata ceterisque sessilibus ; 
ovatis, triquetris, ellipsoideis, inflatis, nervosis, — 
reeurvo-rostratis, bidentatis, divergentibus ova 
obtusa 0 ee . Hie 8 
