356 Prof. Dewey on Caricography. 
14-20 inches high, erect, with leafy bracts; leaves lan- 
ceolate, striate, shorter below and shorter than the culm ; stam- 
inate spikes 1-3, erect, cylindric, often more than an inch long, 
with ovate and oblo ong short acute scales, upper one pedunculate ; 
pistillate spikes 2, oblong, cylindric, closely jointed, erect, upper 
one often staminate at the apex, all with enclosed peduncles, 
upper nearly sessile; fruit ovate, acuminate, bilobate, scarcely 
rostrate, striate, longer than the ovate and tawny scale. 
Penn.—Muh. ; j—New Jersey— Torrey ; Florida—Chapman. 
All the varieties noticed by Muhlenberg, have not been found by 
botanists. Perhaps one of them is O. Halseyana, which 
is, however, too different in various respects. In C. Halseyana, 
the staminate scale is more obtuse, and the fruit is distictly ros- 
trate, or more nearly ovate-globose, and continued into a distinet 
beak, two-toothed, much less glabrous, and the spikes less closely 
flowered. All the Carices in Muhlenberg’s Gram., are ascer 
tained 
No. 212. C. turgescens, Tor. Mon. Am. Cyp., p. 419. 
Spica staminifera solitaria oblonga erecta pedunculata ; anor 
pistilliferis s 2-3, ovatis } fol lio-bra tea- 
tis tristigmaticis, infima nunc remota nune subapproximata gl 
pedunculata ; fructibus ovatis inflatis conico-longo-rostratis striatis 
divergentibus ore bifidis, squama ovata magis duplo longioribus. © 
Culm 15-30 inches high, erect, with long and leafy bracts; 
leaves linear-lanceolate, striate, shorter towards the root, and all 
surpassed by the culm; staminate spike long cylindric, peduneu- 
late, and small bracteate ; pistillate spikes 2-3, ovate, few flower- 
ed, erect, mostly sessile, except the lowest, which is often remote 
and long pedunculate ; stigmas three ; fruit ovate, inflated, ee 
conic, and thus rostrate, two-toothed, with prominent or 
peso aivergings & glabrous, more than twice longer than the ovate 
scale; light gree 
This is C. ‘folliculata, Elliott, (not of ue a) found in ep Car- 
olina; also in uisiana— Torr Py Flor 
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