22 Description of three New Carices. 
and memoranda may be co one with the “C. gracilis, E’hrh., 
Upsal,” in Schkuhr’s herbariu 
Mr. 'Tuckerman, in his Shsiinaratin Caricum, (1843,) p. 19, 
rightly remarks, that the C. loliacea of Schkuhr is scarcely that 
of Wahlenberg and Fries; and he inclines to the opinion, that 
the specimen from which ‘Schkuhr figured his C. tenella, out of 
Hedwig’s herbarium, was received by Hedwig from Muhlen- 
berg, and therefore may directly represent the American plant. 
This is not unlikely; but Mr. Tuckerman does not appear to 
have been aware that this species is also a native of the north of 
Europe, and had been gathered at least as early as the year 
1780. He justly remarks, also, that it is a credible that 
Schkuhr’s figures 24 and ‘104, can belong to the e€ species. 
I have already given what I believe to be the hogs of this 
incongruity. 
It would therefore appear that the synonymy of the two species 
in question should stand as follows : 
1. ©. nontacea, Linn.; Wahl. ; Fil. Dan., t. 1403 ; Kunth, 
(excl. syn. C. tenella and ©. gracilis, Schk. >): not of Schk. Car: 
No. 14, f. 91, nor Suppl. No. 47, p. 18. 
2. ©. cracitis, Ehrh.; not of Schk. Ca r., f. 24, nor of R. Br. 
C. tenella, Schk. Car. f. 104. ©. loliacea, Schk. Car. Suppl., 
p. 18; not of Linn., ete. C. disperma, Dewey; not of Kunze, 
Car., t: 33.* 
Arr. IV. — Description of Three New Carices, and a New Spe 
cies of Rhynchospora; by Joun Carey. 
Carex Grayi: spica mascula solitaria pedunculata; spicis 
feemineis 2 globosis densi- (25-30-) floris exserte pedunculatis 
stigmatibus 3; perigyniis deflexo-patentibus ovatis. ventricosis 
multi-nervosis rostratis ore bifidis squamam ovatam hyalinam_ mur 
cronatam triplo longioribus,—C, intumescens, var. P. iii 
A, Gray, in Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., iii, 236. 
Hab. Ad ripas fluminum “ Mohaw k” et ~ Wood-creek, 
ray, M.D 
Culm 3 feet high, robust, triquetrous, yes? and leafy. Leaves 
taller than the culm, 4-5 lines broad, rough on the margin. Sterile 
spike 14-2 inches long: fertile spikes globular, occasionally sin- 
gle, but generally 2, quite distinct and separate, 14 inch in diam- 
* The figure which Prof. Kunze has given as C. disperma, from specimen! ifr 
ered on the Black Mountain of North Ca the by Rugel, is an entirely di 
6 vere namely, the C. rosea, var. radiata, Dewey, (C.n neglecta, Tuckerm., a 
ear it—a plant which I have “3 teed spires on the mountains of Caro “4 
very far males oF the known a ose of the species for which this excellent t Carico 
gist has unaccountably 
