Prof. Dewey on Caricography. 173 
The C. leporina, L., is C. ovalis, Good., described in this Journal, 
vol. xxvi, p. 377, and in vol. vii, p. 276, and entirely different 
from C. lagopina, Wahl. CU. leporina, Lis much resembles our 
C. scoparia, Schk., from which however it differs in its broader 
or far less lanceolate fruit and sca ale. 
Specimens of this plant and the following three were received 
through the politeness and kindness of Dr. Torrey. 
No. 228. C. cryptocarpa, Meyer.—C. Scouleri, Tor. Mon. Cyp., 
p. 399. Boott in Hook. Flor. Bor. Am., No. 88. 
Spicis staminiferis binis pedunculatis gracilibus utringue tereti- 
bus ; spicis pistilliferis ternis oblongis cylindraceis recurvo-pedun- 
culatis bracteatis evaginatis densifloris, inferiore longo-peduncu- 
latis; fructibus disti maticis orbiculatis convexis brevi-apiculatis 
striatis ore integris, squama ovata ferruginea acuta paulo brevi- 
oribus 
Culm a foot or more high, slender, triquetrous, smooth, with 
short leaves towards the root, and with linear bracts without 
sheaths ; staminate spikes two, half inch long, cage with 
wide and oblong obtusish scales ; pistillate spikes three, 
and cylindric, upper one with staminate scales at the apex, “all on 
recurved peduncles and the lowest long pedunculate; stigmas 
two; fruit elliptic or roundish, lenticular, short apiculate, striate 
or minutely nerved ; pistillate scale ovate, acute, dark colored, 
longer than the fruit 
orthwest coast, Dr. Scouler, and Sitcha, Bongard. Resem 
bles C. Srigida and C. limosa in general aspect, but is very differ 
ent; belongs in cage 3 section. Dr. Boott notices its resem- 
blance to one variety of C. salin 
ole.—C. Sitchensis, Reece, was described in vol. xxix, p. 
245, under a name of C. eryptocarpa, but is a very different 
plant from th 
No. 229. ©. Jamesii, Tor. Mon. Cyp., p. 398, (not of Schw. 
n. Tab.) 
Spicis staminiferis binis Per crassis approximatis ; pistillife- 
ris ternis oblongo-c -cylindraceis nae or opi 
os lower short and ldo to o the other, acs one an gory ca 
thick, with oblong and obtuse black scales; pistillate 
ot three, eylindrie bracteate, two upper on short ‘peduncles 
