66 Caricograjphy. 



bracts longj leafy, surpassing the culm, with short sheaths 

 wholly inclosing the peduncles ; fruit ovate, sub-inflated, 

 beaked, ribbed, reflexed, with the beak a little curved; 

 pistillate scale ovate-lanceolate, brownish-red, green on 

 the keel, and about two-thirds the length of the fruit j the 

 whole plant glabrous and of a yellowish colour. 



Flowers in May — grows in wet upland meadows about 

 hills — abundant in Stockbridge and Lenox in this county, 

 and in Pownal, Vt. Also in Plain&eld. Found in the 

 northern parts of Canada according to Mx, Also at Phil- 

 lipston, N. Y — Dr. Barrett. 



This species appears not to have been found by Muh. 

 and Ph. does not give any dethiite locality. Though it 

 seems to be a larger plant than the European, yet it exact- 

 ly resembles the tig. in Schk. and the European specimens 

 with which 1 have compared it. 



30. C. scabrata. Schw.* 



Spicis distinctis tristigmaticis; spica stamenifera solita- 

 ria triquetra pedunculata ; spicis fructiferis subquinis sub- 

 remotis exserte pedunculatis cylindraceis alternis sube- 

 rectis cum longis foliaceis bracteis instructis; fructibus 

 ovato-oblongis rostratis subventricosis subbifidis scabris, 

 squama ovato-lanceolata acuminata margine subciliata 

 apice scabra longioribus. 



Culm 1 — 2 feet high, acutely 3-sided, striate, scabrous 

 above, leafy; leaves linear lanceolate, rather broad, sca- 

 brous on the edges and upper side, nearly the length 

 of the culm, striate ; staminate spike single, shortly 

 pedunculate with its scale lanceolate, brown with 

 a green keel; stigmas three; pistillate spikes 3 — 5, 

 cyhudric, upper one nearly sessile, the others peduncu- 

 late, the lowest often very distant and long pedunculate, a 

 little nodding, rather remote but sometimes pretty near ; 

 bracts long, broad, leafy, the lower ones much surpassing 

 the culm, upper ones with short sheaths, and all the 

 sheaths shorter than the peduncles ; fruit ovate-oblong, 

 beaked, acuminate, subventricose, shortly 2-toothed, 

 somewhat two-edged by means of two opposite nerves or 

 ribs forming obtuse sides, covered with a scabrous adhe- 

 sive pubescence in it younger state, and in maturity sca- 

 brous ; pistillate scale ovate-lanceolate, with a scabrous 



