64 Caricography . 



below, slightly many-nerved, acute or shortly beaked, en- 

 tire at the orifice, and slightly scabrous near the apex ; 

 pistillate scale oblong, acute, or ovate rather long acute, 

 white and hyaline with a green keel, and about two-thirds 

 as long as the fruit. The colour of the whole plant is light 

 green. 



Flowers in June— grows in the form of bogs in sphagnous 

 places among hills — ^l^'iliiamstown — Deerfield. 



Though related to C tenuiflora, this species is mani- 

 festly different from the fig. in Schk. It differs from C. 

 disperma in having the stamens below, as well as in the 

 fruit of its scale. It differs considerably from the fig. of 

 C. loliacea, L. in Schk. tab. Pp. fig. 104. It seerris proper 

 to give a new name to our plant in the present state of un- 

 certainty respecting this European species. It is evident 

 however, from the language of both Schk. and VVahl. that 

 C. loliacea is a somewhat variable species, and ours may 

 ultimately be considered a variety of it. To aid in the 

 examination, it maybe proper to subjoin the following de- 

 scription from Wahl. 



" C. loliacea : spiculis basi masculis subdistantibus ter- 

 ms paucifloris, squamis brevibus, capsulls subovali-ellipti- 

 cis utrinque convexiusculis obtusis obtusangulis divaricatis 

 ore integerrimo, bracteolis setigeris : foliis angustissimis. 

 C. loliacea Linn, confer Schkuhr tab. Pp. fig. 104 ? Hab. 

 in pratis paludosis Suecise rarius." — Wahl. no. 47. 



It scarcely needs remark that the characters of the fruit 

 and scale of C. loliacea in this description are materially 

 different from those of C. trisperma as already given. The 

 obtuseness of the fruit is as distinctly marked in the figure 

 of Schk. as in this description of Wahl. C. trisperma is 

 the species which Sprengel, in a letter, is believed to have 

 named C. quaUrnaria. 



28. C. noxceanglice. Schw.* 



Spicis distinctis distigmaticis ; spica staminifera breve 

 solitaria tenue ex eadem basi cum suprema fructifera ; spi- 

 cis fructiferis binis vel ternis subremotis sessilibus ovatis 

 alternis pauci^oris bracteatis ; fructibus ovali-subtriquetris 



* " Analytical Table of Carices," already referred to. 



