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Art. VIII. — Caricography ; by Professor Dewet. Con- 

 tinued from Vol. IX. p. 73. 



[Oomtnunicated to the Lyceum of NaturalHistory of the Berkshire Medical 

 lastitutiou.] 



39. Carex longirostris. Torrey.* 

 Tab. C. Fig. 10. 



Spicis distinctis ; spicis slameniferis ternis brevibus, su- 

 prerna pedunculata, media sessili, infima pedunculata et cum 

 bractea ovata cuspidata instructa j "spicis fructiferis binis vel 

 ternis tristigmaticis cylindraceis pendulis subsparsifloris sub- 

 distantibus longi-exserte peduncuiatis bracteatis ; fructibus 

 ovatis subglobosis inflatis glabris longirostratis bifidisque, 

 squama Janceolata vel ovato-cuspidata paulo longioribus. 



Culm 15 — 30 inches high, triangular, scabrous above, rather 

 slender, stiff; leaves linear-lanceolate, flat, scabrous on the 

 edges, much shorter than the culm, striate, sheathing ; sheaths 

 striate, glabrous, with a concave stipule; staminate spikes gen- 

 erally three, short, erect, rather small, highest and lowest pe- 

 dunculate, the lowest supported by an ovato-cuspidate bract 

 and sometimes pistillate at its base; staminate scale oblong- 

 lanceolate, hyaline, brownish on the keel ; pistillate spikes 

 2 — 3, cylindric, rather loose-fruited, drooping, on long slender 

 scabrous recurved bracteate peduncles, the highest sometimes 

 staminate at its summit ; bracts lanceolate, nearly the length 

 of the culm, scarcely sheathing the peduncles ; fruit ovate, 

 nearly globose, sometimes a little three-sided, glabrous, nerv- 

 ed, with a long, slender, bifid beak ; pistillate scale lanceolate, 

 sometimes ovato-cuspidate, white on the edge, green on the 

 back and keel, and a little shorter than the fruit, stigmas 3. 



FJowers in May. Found in Westfield in woods on the bank 

 of the river — Mr. E. Davis. Also, near Boston. Grows in 

 great abundance in a light soil on the border of the intetvai 

 of the Housatonnuc, Sheffield, one mile south of the meetmg- 

 house. 



* Schweinitz. " Analytical Table of Carices," in the Aimatls of the 

 New- York Lyceum, Vol. I. p. 71. 

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