30 Caricography. 
BOTANY. 
Aagt. V.—Caricography. By Prof. Dewry. Continued 
from Vol. 1X. p. 263. 
[Communicated to the Lyceum of Natural History of the Berkshire Medical 
Institution. | 
47. Carex miliacea. Muh. 
Muh., Pursh, Eaton, Pers. no. 171. and Ell.* no. 
44. Schw. 
Schk. tab. Ooo fig. 151. 
C. prasina. Wahl. no. 118. Rees’ Cyc. no. 137. 
Spicis distinctis ; spica staminifera solitaria elongata gracili; 
spicis fructiferis tristigmaticis ternis elongatis cylindraceis sub- 
tenuibus, suprema subsessili, ceteris pedunculatis omnibus 
bracteatis cernuis ; fructibus ovatis triquetris glabris subros- 
tratis subbifidis vel ore integris, squama oblonga emarginata 
vel obcordata scabro-aristata longioribus. 
Culm 18—24 inches high, slender, triangular, scabrous 
above, glabrous, leafy ; leaves linear-lanceolate. highest often 
equalling the culm, rough on the edges, striate and mostly 
flat ; bracts leafy with short sheaths, the lowest surpassing the 
culm; staminate spike single, slender, long, pedunculate, 
larger above, with decurrent florets; staminate scale oblong 
rather acute, white on the edge, with a short awn; pistillate 
spikes 2--3, long, slender, somewhat loosely flowered, high- 
est nearly sessile, the others pedunculate, and all nodding ; 
stigmas three ; fruit ovate, somewhat three-sided,. glabrous, 
with a short beak and entire or somewhat bifid at the orifice ; 
pistillate scale oblong and emarginate, sometimes obcordate, 
terminated by a scabrous awn, white on the edge and green 
en the keel. Whole plant is rather pale green. 
Flowers in May and June—grows in wet meadows, com- 
mon, but not very abundant. 
* Elliott’s “Sketch ef the Botany of South Carolina and Georgia.” 
