Prof. Dewey on Caricography. 175 
Culm a few inches high, slender, with setaceous leaves towards 
the base ; spike single, staminate above, and close flowered ; stig- 
mas three; fruit conic, lanceolate, subconvex-plane, subulate at 
the apex and reflexed ; pistillate scale caducous. 
Greenland, Horneman ; Switzerland, Schk., who distinguish- 
es it from C. pauciflora, especially by the subulate point beyond 
the orifice at which the style passes out. 
No. 233. C. lenticularis, Mx. Boott in Hook. Fl. Bor. Am., 
No. 85. 
C. panicea, L., is remarked by Mx.; and hence it is evident that 
this plant is not well known by our botanists, although it is found 
over a wide extent of the northern regions. The above given 
description is really that of Mx., and may lead to a better ac- 
quaintance with it. It is not the C. lenticularis in vol. vii, p 
273, which proves to be a variety of C. limosa, L. _It has been 
supposed to be a variety of C. stricta, which its affinity to C. pa- 
nicea forbids. 
No. 234. ©. recta, Boott. Hook. Fl. Bor. Am., No. 95. 
Spicis staminiferis binis oblongis, superiore sessili ; spicis pistil- 
liferis subternis (3-4) cylindraceis erectis approximatis foliaceo- 
bracteatis evaginatis pedunculatis, superioribus superne staminife- 
ris, infima subremota inferne laxiflora; fructibus distigmaticis ob- 
ovatis subrotundis levibus brevi-rostratis ore integris vel subemar- 
ginatis, squamam lanceolatam inferne aristatam semi-equantibus. 
ulm 18 inches high, erect, stiff, scabrous on edges above, long- 
er than the close lanceolate leaves; bracts leafy, longer than th 
culm, auriculate at base and not sheathing ; staminate spikes two, 
near the pistillate and erect, with dark brown scales above obtuse ; 
pistillate spikes 3-4, oblong, cylindric, erect and close, near, up- 
per ones staminate at the apex, the lowest remotish ; stigmas two ; 
fruit roundish obovate, glaucous, very smooth, with a round 
short beak and orifice nearl entire ;_pistillate scales lanceolate, 
cirk-purple, awned below, and longer than the fruit nearly twice. 
ott. 
C. stricta, and is well characteri: 
Nore... olisocarpa; Schit.; described in vol. iv, p. 349, has 
one form, hic his founly been ranked under C. Hitcheockiana, 
Labrador, Hooker. This species belongs with C. acuta and 
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