346 Prof. Dewey on Caricography. 



talis, squamam lanceo-aristatam multo superantibus; foliis latis 

 longisque. ' 



Culm two feet high, scabrous-triquetrous; leaves long and 

 broad in the middle and much shorter at the root and smaller; 

 bracts long and leafy, scarcely sheathing ; one staminate spike, 

 very long, and pecundulate, with brown and lanceolate scales; 

 pistillate spikes 4-5, long cylindric, loose-flowered, erect, highest 

 sessile, all remote, pedunculate; pistillate scale lanceolate, and 

 the lower long and rough awned, about twice as long as the first 



mplyfi 



Dousrlass,— Boott. This splen- 



No. 221. C. paradoxa, Wilid. Schk. Tab. E, fig. 21. 



Spiculis superne staminiferis ovatis oblongis arete ramoso-pan- 

 iculatis, ramis inferioribus subremotis, superne aggregatis ; fructi- 



distigmaticis 



and 



acutis vel rostratis bidentatis margine serrulatis, squamam ovatam 

 oblongam acutiusculam sub-aequantibus j culmo subtriquetro 

 scabro inferne foliaceo. 



This species, not uncommon in wet places in Germany, 

 found by Dr. Richardson in Arctic America, is closely related to 

 C. paniculata, L. It differs in being a smaller plant, and much 

 less branching-paniculate, and its fruit is less broadly ovate and 

 lengthened into a beak, while its scale is less broad and less 

 acute. 



No. 222. C. nardina, Fries.— C. Hepburnii, Boott in Hook. 



Fl. Bor. Am., No. 6, Tab. 207. 



Spica solitaria androgyna apice staminifera o vata distipnaWa ; 

 fructibus ovatis vel ellipticis acuminatis compressis brevi-bidenfa- 

 tis margine scabris, squamam ovato-oblongam sub-aequantibu* 

 foliis setaceis hispidis culmum brevem aequantibus. 



Culm 3-5 inches high, with rough setaceous leaves sheatrui 

 the base and long as the culm ; staminate flowers 3-1 at the ape* 

 of the spike with narrow lanceolate scales ; stigmas two ; frj 

 ovate, acuminate, acutish, convex, compressed; pistillate sc e 

 oblong, broad, about as long as the fruit. 



Found on the Rocky Mts. by Drummond — Boott. 



No. 223. C. Pi/renaica, Wahl. 



Spica unica androgyna apice staminifera tristigmatica oblonga 

 per-densidora ; fructibus numerosis angusto-oblongis coWC0 '^ 

 quetris brevi-rostratis divergentibus, squamam ovatam oblong 3 " 1 

 vix superantibus. . 



Culm 3-5 inches high, triquetrous, with lea^ s towards U* 

 base linear and flat and nearly as long as the culm ; spike sin?"j 

 ovate and oblong, taperiue above, at. th« summit staminate, ** 



