142 Caricography. 



Culm two feet high, rather slender, 3-sided, leafy at the base ; 

 lea\Aes linear, flat, nerved, smooth, much shorter than the culm ; 

 staminate spike about an inch long, cylindric, sometimes very 

 long-pedunculate, with oblong-linear acute scales ; pistillate spikes 

 2-4, oblong and loose-flowered, upper one short-pedunculate or 

 sessile with a short and scarcely sheathing bract, the lower often 

 very long pedunculate and recurved with short sheaths and long 

 leafy bracts; stigmas three; fruit ovate, 3-sided, somewhat stiped, 

 recurved-rostrate, 2-toothed and nerved ; pistillate scale ovate, 

 oblong, acute or mucronate, membranaceous on the margin, and 

 usually a Httle shorter than the fruit. 



Found on the mountains of Macon County, N. C. by S. B. 

 Buckley ; resembles C, anceps, Muh., but is far different. 



No. 180. C. Caroliniana, Buckley. Tab. Dd, fig. 102. 



Spicis distinctis ; staminifera unica squamaceo-bracteata ; pis- 

 tilliferis binis vel ternis tristigtnaticis longo-exserte pedunculatis 

 perdistantibus paucifloris, inferiore subradicali ; fructibus (3-6) 

 ovatis brevi-conicis subtriquetris alternis, squamam ovatum acu- 

 tam subasquantibus. 



Culms 8-16 inches high, slender, striate, leafy at the base, in 

 tufts with numerous flat and nerved radical leaves which are 

 sometimes half an inch wide, and often equal to the culm in 

 length ; bracts narrow and leafy, partly sheathing the filiform 

 peduncles ; staminate spike half an inch long, with a scaly and 

 acute bract at the base, and with obtuse oblong and reddish 

 brown close scales ; pistillate spikes (2-3) on long peduncles, 

 few-fruited ; stigmas three ; fruit ovate, 3-sided, alternate, with 

 a conic termination, and about equal to the ovate acute scale. 

 Culms of very different length on the same tuft ; flowers from 

 April to May. 



Found on Table Mountain, S. C. by S. B. Buckley ; has a 

 very depauperate appearance, but is very remote from C. depau- 

 perata, Good. 



No. 181. C. triceps, Mx. C. triceps? Ell. Tab. Dd, fig. 103. 



Spicis tristigmaticis ternis brevi-ovatis erectis approximatis 

 sessilibus, superiore androgyna brevi-pedunculata inferne stamini- 

 fera, inferiore folioso-bracteata ; fructibus triquetro-ovatis obtusis 

 glabris, squama ovata acuta subduplo longioribus. 



