Prof. Deieey on Caricography. = — at 
_ Culm 4-10 inches high, triquetrous, oblique, stiff, leafy at the 
rit bracts sheathing, leafy and long, striate; staminate. one, 
dione: cylindric, often with one or two more, at or near the base 
and much shorter, the highest is very rarely pistillate at the sum- 
‘mit, and the scales are oblong, obtusish, close, tawny ; pistillate 
spikes 3-6, oblong, cylindric, nearly an inch long or more, dense- 
ly flowered, erect, remote or near, highest nearly sessile, the mid- 
dle exsertly pedunculate, the lowest subradical and often very 
long pedunculate ; fruit ovate, conic, subtriquetrous, glabrous, ve- 
ry slightly rostrate, orifice entire; scales of the fruit ovate, ob- 
tuse, sometimes acutish, half as long as the fruit; plant pale 
_ Green, ‘and glabrous; leaves linear, Bs, striate, often very short, 
Sometimes half length of culm. © 
_ Found at Watertown, and Griflin’s Bay; Jelfondon Co., N. Yi— 
Dr. Crawe, whose name it bears. It is too remote Sims C. gran- 
— and i: pope, Schk., to be confounded with them. 
No. 202. ©. Knieskernti, Dew. wi) 
Sides seein unica cylindracea longa Soisinciitntnsni squa- 
‘mis oblongis obtusis conferta ; spicis pistilliferis ternis, tristigmati- 
eis; longo-cylindraceis, iablena@iris, ‘subdistantibus, subrecurveo- 
Ppedunculatis, basi vaginatis; fructibus ovatis, oblongis, subtrique- 
tris, as tensto-conicis, rostratis, brevi-b identatis, squama ovata oblonga 
paul longioribus ; folus par ra 
minute pubescentibus , 
_ Culm a foot or more high, eusety leafy siihiads the base; iadeses 
7 partly inclosing the peduncles long and leafy, and with | the leaves 
slightly p ; staminate spike commonly long and cylindric 
. With oblong and obtuse scales; stigmas three ; pistillate spikes 
three; maid and cylindric, rather loose-flowered, long recurved pe- 
: ; fruit ovate, oblong, tapering above into a beak, biden- 
tate, yanbtsiquetrous ; pistillate scale ovate, oblong, obtusish, often 
slightly mucronate, white and genes eect heey keel ; plant 
Pale green, reddish at the base. 
‘woods near Oriskany, Dr. Knieskern. “Since found near 
Rome, and near the former locality by Mr. Vasey. It is closely 
related to C. sylvatica, and has been confounded with C. arctata, 
Boot, from both which it is clearly different ; from C. Sullivantit, 
Boott) it i is far separated: 
bo Sareea is proposed by Mt. Vasey in honor of Dr. Knies- 
en as.a botanist. 
