2fi^ Caricograpky. 



This is a finely characterized species, and is excellently 

 drawn by Schk. 



46. C. granularioides. Schw. 

 Tab. A. fig. 4. 



Spicis distinctis; spica stamenifera solitaria oblonga pedun- 

 culata ; spicis fructiferis tristigmaticis binis vel ternis oblongis 

 remotis exserte pedunculatis erectis subdensifloris bracteatis, 

 suprema subsessili ; fructibus oblongis obtusiusculis glabris 

 nervosis ore integro subdivergentibus, squama ovato-subulata 

 paulo longioribus 



Culm 8 — 12 incheshigh, triangular, rather slender, scabrous 

 above, leafy towards the base ; leaves linear-lanceolate, flat, 

 rather smooth, shorter than the culm, striate, about two lines 

 broad; bracts leafy, as long or longer than the culm with 

 short, distinct sheaths; staminate spike single, from the same 

 bract with the highest pistillate, pedunculate, sometimes with 

 a small bract at the base ; staminate scale oblong, subobovate, 

 obtuse, tawny ; pistillate spikes 2-3, remote, often quite dis- 

 tant, the highest nearly sessile, the others supported on pe- 

 duncles projecting more than the length of the sheaths, about 

 half an inch long, cylindric, oblong, rather densely flowered; 

 stigmas three ; fruit oblong, obtuse, sometimes a little atten- 

 uated at the base, nerved, glabrous, entire at the mouth, some- 

 times with a very short beak ; pistillate scale, variable in 

 length, ovate and subulate, tawny on the edge, and green on 

 the keel, generally a little shorter than the fruit. Colour of 

 the plant is a bright green. 



Flowers in May. Grows in moist soil, upland meadows at 

 Newburgh, N. Y. ; on the Housatonnuc in Sheffield ; Phil- 

 lipstown, N. Y. Dr. Barratt. — Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 

 Mr. Schweinitz. 



This plant is related to C. conoidea, C. tetanica, and C. 

 pallescens, but it differs much from ehher of them. Mr. 

 Schweinitz made it a new species with great propriety. 



Plates of several of the new species of Carex described in 

 this work, accompany this paper. The figures have been 

 drawn by a hand distinguished for its accuracy in delineating 

 plants. The figures are of the size of the originals. The 

 dissections are on the right of the species to which they be- 

 long. The first, in passing towards the right hand, represents 

 the scale ; the second, the fruit ; and the third, when given, 

 the seed. 



