Prof. Dewey on Caricography. 349 



Additional specimens have thrown much light on the following 

 species. 



C. Woodii, D. Vol. ii, ii Ser., p. 249. — C. tetanica, Muh., 



(not of Schk.) 



With all his accuracy, Muh. confounded C. plantaginea and 

 C. anceps ; described as C. conoidea, a plant distinct from that 



species of Schk. already figured by the latter ; and gave C. tetan- 



ica to a species very different from the description and figure of 

 Schk., Tab. Oooo, fig. 207, which was also described in this 

 Journal, Vol. xi, p. 312. Hence C. tetanica, Muh., must have 



Woodii 



Muh 



Schk. Dr. 



Wood speaks of it as erect, bright green, slender, a foot to twenty- 

 inches high, growing singly or not in tufts, presenting a beauti- 

 ful appearance, culm obtusely triquetrous, and having fruit in 

 maturity frequently open and oblique at the orifice. It needs 

 only to be added that Muh. himself doubted, as well he might, 

 whether his plant was identical with the plant of Schk., as it 

 clearly is not. 



C. tetanica, Schk., has obovate fruit, with a short but distinct 

 recurved beak, of the lock-jaw kind, as its name implies, and the 

 surface is distinctly scabrous or short hirsute, with an ovate, short 

 acute scale, the lower ones often mucronate, the upper ones of 

 the form given by Schk., Tab. Oooo, fig. 207. The fruit of 

 C. Woodii has no such beak as is given by Schk. to his C. tetan- 

 ia*, and is glabrous, growing on two pistillate spikes, sometimes 

 one or three. It has undoubtedly been confounded with a nar- 



e ral respects. 



differs 



No. 226. C. oligocarpa, Schk. 



Spica staminifera unica pedunculata cum squamis oblongis ob- 

 tusis ; spicis pistilliferis subternis (2-4) 3-6-floris laxis distanti- 

 bus tristigmaticis, superiore sessili, inferionbus pedunculate bre- 

 vi-vaginatis : fructibus subrotundo-triquetris obovatis rostellatis ore 

 mtegris glabris, squama ovata oblonga mucronata subduplo-lon- 



;ioribus. 



Culm a foot or more high, decumbent, slender, sometimes near- 

 !y prostrate in maturity, triquetrous, smooth, with short, nearly 

 KKlical and lanceolate leaves; bracts leafy, lanceolate, about 

 equalling the culm with short sheaths ; staminate spike single, 

 slender, without a bract, and having oblong and obtuse scales ; 

 st igmas three ; pistillate spikes 2-4, usually three, with 3-b fruit, 

 distant, loose-flowered, upper one sessile, and the lower short pe- 

 dunculate ; fruit obovate, roundish three-sided, short rostrate or 

 alternate, smooth, at the orifice entire ; pistillate scale ovate, ob- 



