174 Prof. Dewey on Caricography. 
without sheaths, the lowest with a long and nearly radical pe- 
duncle ; stigmas two; fruit ovate, convex, short rostrate, nerved, 
orifice bilabiate ; : pistillate scale ovate, acute, shorter than the fruit. 
Rocky Mountains, Dr. #. James, and named by Dr. ‘Torrey 
in honor of the discoverer. It seems to be a fine species. 
No. 230. C. sa ing Meyer. Tor. Mon. Cyp., p. 387. Boott 
n Hook. Fl. Bor. Am., No. 2. 
Spica unica oblonga laxiflora superne staminifera, vel dioica? 
fructibus tristigmaticis oblongis lanceolatis distincte triquetris ore 
integris vel sublabiatis, squama oblonga patula obtusa paulo lon- 
gioribus. 
Culm a foot or more high, slender, erect, triquetrous, leafy to- 
wards the base ; leaves narrow, linear, triquetrous at the apex; 
spike single, oblong, not closely fruited, towards an inch long, 
staminiferous at the summit; stigmas s three ; fruit oblong, distinctly 
triquetrous, tapering above, smooth (as its name signifies), with 
its orifice entire or very slightly Soha es 4 Para scale oblong, 
obtuse, brown, a little shorter than t 
In Russian America, Meyer and Boneaee: resembles C. poly- 
trichoides, but very different. I find three stigmas on the fruit. 
No. 231. C. microdonta, Torrey and Hook. usar Mon. Cyp., 
No. 145, and Boott in Bost. Jour 
Spicis staminiferis subternis (2-4) approximatis cylindraceis 
sessilibus, infima subremota inclusé pedunculata ; spicis pistilliferis 
3-4 seepe quatuor cylindraceis erectis exserté pedunculatis sub- 
remotis bracteatis, superioribus apice staminiferis superné attenu- 
atis basi sublaxifloris ; fructibus tristigmaticis ovato-oblongis com- 
pressis striatis ore subemarginatis, squamam ovatam latam cuspi- 
datam vel acuminatam subzequantibus. 
Culm 1-2 feet high, slender, a oe leafy towards 
the base, and leaves shorter than he culm; staminate spikes 
iia three, cylindric, from a half re an inch and a half long, 
upper ones near, the lowest exsertly pedunculate and remotish, 
with eee and cuspidate scales; pistillate spikes about four, 
remote, cylindric, acutish above by staminate flowers with exsert 
peduncles ; stigmas three; fruit ovate, oblong, obtusish with an 
emarginate orifice and with ovate cuspidate scales scarious on the 
margin. 
Texas, Drummond ; Torrey and Boott. 
No. 232. C. microglochin, Wahl. Schk., Tab. Ssss, fig. 210. 
Boott in Hook. Flor. Bor. Am.. No e49: 
_ Spica uniea apice staminifera densi-flora; fructibus lanceolatis 
is convexo-subplanis reflexis apice aristatis vel subulatis ér?- 
stigmaticis subocto-floris eum squama caduca. 
