32 Caricography. 
Spicis distinctis ; spica staminifera solitaria oblonga gra- 
cili raro bracteata ; spicis fructiferis tristigmaticis ternis laxi- 
floris remotis erectis, suprema breve et inclusé pedunculatis, 
infima exserté pedunculatis; fructibus ovatis vel oblongo-ova- 
libus subobtusis glabris ventricosis nervosis ore integro sub- 
triquetris, squama ovato-mucronata et scabra paulo longio- 
ribus. 
Culm 10—19 inches high, triangular, leafy ; leaves linear- 
lanceolate, rather soft, rough on the edge, shorter than the 
culm ; bracts long, leafy, surpassing the culm with rather 
short sheaths ; staminate spike single, obleng, generally from 
the same bract with the highest pistillate, slender ; staminate 
scale obovate, lower ones acuminate ; pistillate spikes three, 
erect, alternate, remote, loose- flowered, about 6—8 flowered 
but varying from 3—1‘:, the lowest spike supported ona long 
peduncle, the others by a shorter, and the highest by a short 
and inclosed peduncle,—sometimes there are four or five 
spikes with two or three approximate and near the staminate 
spike, with nearly inclosed peduncles; pistillate scale ovate- 
mucronate with a rough point, white on the edge and green 
‘on the keel, a little shorter than the fruit. Colour of the plant 
varies from a pale to a bright green. 
Flowers in May—grows in meadows and woods and about 
hedges—common over the country. 
This is a beautiful speeies, and is finely figured by Schk. 
There can be no doubt that the plant described by Mr. El- 
liott and others under this name is the C. laxiflora, Lam. ac- 
cording to Schk., and that it is the C. grisea of Wahl. ‘he 
last described it from a specimen in the Herbarium of 
of Swartz, and inquires whether it was from N. America. 
This species is doubtless the C. paupercula, Mx., though his 
description does not in every particular exactly agree with it. 
In Rees’ Cyc. this species is described under the two differ- 
ent names given by Lam. and Wahl. 
50. C. folliculata. L. 
Muh., Pursh, Eaton, Pers. no. 153, Mx. Ell. 
no. 33. 
Wahl. no 72. Rees’ Cyc. no. 144. Sehw. 
Schk. tab. N fig. 52. 
Spicis distinctis ; spica staminifera solitaria oblonga pe- 
dunculata; spicis fructiferis subbinis approximatis pauciflo- 
ris erectis sub-pedunculatis, inferiore interdum remota et 
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