246 Prof. Dewey on Caricography. 
gro vel emarginato, squaamam ovatam acutam _ vel “en lon- 
gioribus; culmis pedalibus glaucis. 
Culm a foot high, smooth, leafy towards the tai Sirs Jan: 
ceolate, 3 to 4 lines broad, glaucous, smooth, shorter piolow's stam- 
inate spike short cylindric with an oblong and obtuse wali pis- 
tillate spikes 3 to 6 with three stigmas, long and cylindric, sth 
rect and loose-flowered; the lower ones exsertly pedunculate with 
jong leafy bracts and shortish sheaths; fruit oblong-ovate; obtuse 
or emarginate, slightly nerved, a little inflated ;- pistillate: scale 
ovate acute and about one-third as long as the rine Sieorsie ens 
leaves smooth and glaucous. 
*\ Florida and Louisiana, Dr. Levon erty; has a remote resem- 
blance to C. granularis, Muh. 
No. 200. C. pewissnehdiies Dew’ 
Spiculis ovatis aggregatis 3-5, superne staminiferis sessilibus, 
sqamo-bracteatis ; fructibus ovatis, compressis, superne convexis, 
acutis, brevirostratis, distigmaticis, ore integris, brevibus, glabris, 
‘squama ovato-acuta vix wins i cetenle en uibus basi 
foliaceis. Gate Ni 
Culm 6-12 inches high, erect, inet: triquetrous, ite below 
the middle ; leaves linear, narrow and slender, flat, often. longer 
than the Galiie: shorter towards the root; ; spikelets aggregated into 
a head, staminate above ; staminate scales lanceolate ; fruit short- 
ovate, convex above, short-rostrate, sinooth, with an ovate and — 
acute scale shorter than the fruit; under the pene isa bret 
or ovate scale passing into a long cusp or awn. A hal 
Louisiana, Dr. Leavenworth. From the kindred piled os. 3 
rosea, C. retreflotti C. disperma, it is readily distinguishable. It 
‘closely resembles Tab. Ee, fig: 91, Schk., and called by him 4 
variety of C. muricata; but from this our plant is poe’ 
ot its fruit and scale. 
No. 201. °C. Crawei, Dew. 
Spicis staminiferis 1-3, sepius unica, oblongis ssp indasles 
superiore multo ia ew et rarissima apicem fructifera, cum squa- 
‘mis oblongis cepsit fpevi-oo its ; pistiltiferts 3-6 oblongo-cylin- 
draceis, tristi ilibus vel exserte pedunculatis, densi 
floris, remotis, vel subaggregatis, infima subradicali et longo-ped- 
unculata; fructibus ovatis teretibus vel ee einSeteaict ‘a 
‘em ere em j obtusa 
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