Prof. Dewey on Caricography. 355 
Culm erect, slender, 15 inches high, with shortish leafy bracts ; 
leaves flat, lanceolate, acute, striate, originating towards the root,, 
and shorter than the culm, slightly pilose on the under side; 
spikes 4-6, erect, pedunculate, bracteate, lower ones sheathed an 
very loosely flowered at the lower part, the upper spike staminate 
below, with long and lanceolate staminate scales ; stigmas three ; 
fruit oblong, tapering to each end, smooth, subtriquetrous, dark 
brown, rather loose, orifice nearly entire ; pistillate scales ovate, 
oblong cuspidate, white and membranous on the edges, shorter 
than the fruit; plant pale green. 
Texas—Torrey ; Florida—Dr. A. W. Chapman, author of 
the List of Planis near Quincy, Florida ; Louisiana—Dr. Hale. 
Related to C. formosa and C. estivalis, though far different. 
pecimens from Florida and Louisiana are fine and beautiful. 
No. 210. ©. Baltzellii, Chapman. List of Florida Plants, 1845. 
Spica staminifera unica perlongo-pedunculata, squamis oblongis 
obovatis obtusis vel subemarginatis brevimucronatis ; spicis pis- 
tilliferis 3-4, oblongis erectis laxifloris subradicalis pedunculatis, 
suprema interdum apice staminifera ; fructibus tristigmaticis 0 
longis obovatis obtusis triquetris brevi-rostratis ore integris subpu- 
bescentibus vel scabris nervosis, squamam. similem  staminifera, 
cylindric and clubform staminate spike, as if supported by a nearly 
ical peduncle ; leaves radical, flat, striate, lanceolate, much sur- 
passing the culm, and slightly pubescent ; pistillate spikes 3-4, 
subradical, pedunculate, approximate, cylindric, loosely flowered, 
the highest often continued into a short staminate spike ; stigmas 
three ; fruit oblong, obovate, obtuse, short rostrate, subscabrous, 
entire at the mouth, sometimes distinctly triquetrous, nerved ; 
pistillate scale, like the staminate, oblong, obovate, obtuse or 
slightly emarginate, mucronate, and often slightly surpassing the 
fruit, deep reddish-brown on the edges, and green on the keel; 
whole plant rather light green. 
Florida—Chapman; a singular and beautiful species, closely 
, as Dr, Chapman remarked, to C. pedunculata, ener 
No. 211. C. polymorpha, Muh. . Gram. Moh:, p.239 
