_ times mucronate and about the length of the fruit ; plant Tight 
— bracts much wider than the leaves and lancoulnge 
- Drummond Island in. Lake Huron, Dr. Torrey ; ; Macouth Co, 
Michigan, ‘Dr. Cooley. A distinct species. - 
~~ No. 205. C. Woodii, Dew. 
_ Spica staminifera unica, triquetra, oblongo-cylindracea, squamo- 
bracteata, cum squamis oblongis obtusis densis ; pistillifera tristig- 
matica panics, interdum bine, ovato-oblonga, ‘daxcifices, superior@ 
exserte lata, erecta, fe ta, perlongo-pedunculata, 
recuva ‘léxa ; fructibus obovatis, obtusis subtriquetris, ore strictis 
erostratis, snfernd teretibus, squama ovata subacuta duplo-longiori- 
bus ; culmo tereti laxo, foliis angustis Priests: striatis ; foliis et 
eulinis é exigue pubescentibus. =~ 
“Culm a foot or more high, slender, idaetiots, lax, striate ; 
leaves of the culms short, striate and subradical, but of the roots 
very long, slender, flat; staminate spike single, triquetro-cylin- 
, oblong, an inch jog: with oblong and obtuse tawny scales, 
~ the ieee subbracteate ; pistillate spike, 1-2, ovate, short, loose- 
: flowered, upper one stidathed and exsertly phininallate, the low- 
er very long pedunculate and lax; fruit obovate, obtuse, trique- 
trous, orifice closed, , tapering below, with its scale ovate acutish 
and half as long as the fruit, and white with a green keel ; plant 
green, and very slightly pubescent. 
Found by Drs: Crawe and Wood on Perch Lake and Peck 
River, Jefferson Co., N. Y., and named after one of its discover- 
_ FS, Dr. ‘Wm. A. Wood. Tt appears to be very distinct. 
shatter, NY, Mares 1846... 
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Ann. XXVIR—On jhvets eth » Mineral Species from Arkansas, 
_ and the Discovery of the Diamond in North Carolina; by 
_ Cuaries Urram Suerarp, M.D. Prof. of Chemistry in the 
- Medical College of South Carolina, and in, Amherst College, 
ta “Massachusetts, 
For the ininierals here doseribed from. indi. Tam indebt- 
ed to r my friend, the Rey. E. R. Beadle, formerly .missionary to 
Palestine, but at present, a resident in New Orleans. I believe 
riche have been collected by himself, during a late journey 
ough the re gion of the Hot Springs. 
