248 Prof. Dewey on Caricography.. 
é No. 203. .C. Halei, Dew. 
dioien decomposita aahpaneeaiets pace inttéras ral patie sspiew- 
lis ovatis, aggregatis, 7 
ibus ; fiuctibus brevi-ovatis, distigmatitis, perlongo-rostratis, ner- 
vosis, divergentibus, convexo-concavis, squama ovata acuta ingle 
tongionibus ; culmis folhiaceis et cum foliis seabris. > 
Culm 18-30 inches high, triquetrous, rough on the pees 
erect, leafy towards the base ; leaves long, scabrous on the edges, 
surpassing the culm and sinks spike compounded of many sets 
ef spikelets, ovate and sitecauion and staminate at the apex; 
stigmas two; fruit short ovate with a very long slender beak; 
 nerved and. anil, beak. very scabrous on the edges; - pistillate 
scale ovate, acute, hyaline on the edges, and scarcely one third 
the leaptly of the fruit ; ~~ ses green ; lower part. of the 
spike subpaniculate. 
, Ky-, Dr. ‘Short swamps of Mississippi river “in. 
Dr. Leavenworth and Dr. Hale. Confounded with C. 
stipata, from which it is clearly distinguished by. its fruit and 
scale. In C. stipata the fruit is a regular taper from the base to 
the vertex. or has a triangular outline, and its form:is-entirely dif- 
ferent from ons as well as the relative deat of. mon beak and 
atinicee 
fe Feige 
“No: 204. C. Parvin sae Rota siete: » oan 
ay staminifera unica cylindracea pedunculata, cum squamis 
oblongis. obtusis conferta;  spicis pistilliferis 2-4, tristigmaticis, 
cylindraceis, stricto-floris erectis, raro apice staminiferis, superiore 
incluso-bracteatis, inferioribus remotis. vel perremotis, exserte 
pedunculatis, brevi-vaginatis; fructibus brevi-ovatis, conicis, stib- | 
triquetris, nervosis, ore integris, squama ovata acuta paulo longiori- 
bus ; foltis hnear+lanceolatis subradicalibus, bracteis’ lanceolate 
foliosis, 
~ Culm 4-8 inches high, erect, slightly Piquetrouss stiff, leafy: at 
the base, with broad leafy bracts; staminate spike single, long 
pedunculate, with oblong and obtuse scales white on the edges - 
and brown on the back; pistillate spikes 2-4, about three, cylin- 
ps rather close-flowered, rather distant, with peduncles’ partly 
in the sheaths, the upper nearly sessile ; stigmas three; 
fis short-ovate, mines — entire at. the otifice pistillate 
taaaenatae 2ieisoiee ‘shorter than th the lower some- 
Bs oo Rape Bad See came gi 
ae i : Pe Se ek 
A Sip Fy cic S 
PST 
