52 Caricography. 



pedunculatis recurvatis ; fructibus ovalibus brevirostratis oblongis 

 ore obliquis, squama ovata oblonga obtusa longioribus. 



" Grows in tufts from two seven inches high," Robbins ; culm 

 roundish, smooth, quite leafy towards the base, and having a 

 leafy bract under the spikes ; leaves narrow, long as the culm ; 

 fertile spikes on exsert recurved peduncles, with a few rather 

 loose flowers, and having the fruit oblong, oval, acutish, some- 

 what beaked, and longer than the oblong or ovate and obtuse 

 scale. 



Schkuhr credits this species to most of Europe. It has been 

 found in arctic America to the Rocky Mountains. Torrey. It 

 was found in 1829 by Dr. Robbins, in the alpine region of the 

 White Mountains of New Hampshire. 



Note. Dr. Robbins designed these three species to appear in 

 the contemplated Flora of Neiu England^ by Wm. Oakes, Esq., 

 of Ipswich, Mass., a work which it is much to be regretted may 

 not soon appear. 



No. 172. C. rostrata, Mx. 



C. xanthophysa, Wahl. var. nana et minor, D. 



C.foUiculata. Mon. Cyp. Tor. p. 419. 



Spicis distinctis ; staminifera brevi solitaria sessili ; pistilliferis 

 duabus vel ternis axillaribus subglobosis flavescentibus superiore 

 sessili, inferiore subsessili ; fructibus in capite aggregatis erectis 

 et subdivergentibus oblongo-conicis longissime rostratis, squama 

 ovato-oblonga subacuta duplo longioribus. 



Culm about a foot high, few leafed, a long bract under th^ low- 

 est spike, erect, stiff', with two or sometimes three sessile or nearly 

 sessile pistillate spikes of a globular or capitate form, fruit small, 

 conic, very long beaked, little inflated at the base ; pistillate scale 

 ovate, oblong, obtusish, not half the length of the fruit. Grows 

 at the base of the White Mountains. — Oakes. Also in Canada 

 or the northern regions. 



Dr. Torrey has ascertained by an examination of the plants 

 collected by Michaux, that his plant is the dwarf variety, as it 

 has been called, of C. xanthophysa, Wahl. This I had supposed 

 the truth ; but a comparison of fhe specimens found by Mr. Oakes 

 on the White Mountains, with others from Canada, and with the 

 description of Michaux, has led me to conclude that the plant 

 of Mich, is wholly distinct. It is so constant in its character that 

 I had already described it as a fixed variety, in Vol. xiv, p. 353, 

 of this Journal, and given a figure of it in Tab. D, fig. 15, 



