eo at Py vy 4 
5é Caricogruphy. 
were not evident from the description, we have the express 
declaration of Muh. 
51. C. tentaculata. Muh. 
Muh., Pursh, Eaton, Pers. no. 116. Ell. no. 30. 
Schw. 
Schk. tab. Ggg. fig. 130. 
C. rostrata. Mx., Eaton, Pers. no. 154. 
Schk. tab. Hbh fig. 134. 
Spicis distinctis; spica staminifera solitaria subsessili 
braeteata ; spicis fructiferis tristigmaticis binis vel ternis ob- 
longis cylindraceis bracteatis, suprema sessili. ceteris breve 
et inclusé pedunculatis; fructibus ovatis inflatis longo-rostra- 
tis bidentatis nervosis glabris divergentibus arcté oppressis, 
squama ovata parva scabro-mucronata duplo longioribus. 
Culm 1—2 feet high, triangular, scabrous above, leafy; 
leaves linear-lanceolate, nerved, longer than the culm, rough 
on the edge; braca#long, leafy. surpassing the culm much, 
and with short sheaths; staminate spike single, oblong, 
bracteate ; staminate scale long, linear, mucronate with 
a scabrous point; pistillate spikes 2—3. rarely one or 
four, approximate, oblong-cylindric, thick and large, ses- 
sile or with short peduncles nearly or quite inclosed in the 
sheath, rarely ovate, varying in length from half an inch to 
wvo inches, very densely flowered, somewhat horizontal, with 
long, large bracts; stigmas three; fruit ovate, long-beaked, 
two-toothed, inflated, much crowded, nerved, diverging; pis- 
tillate scale ovate, small. but as noticed by Muh., broad at 
the base, linear, mucronate, scabrous, about half the length 
of the fruit. Colour of the plant rather yellowish green. 
Flowers in May—grows in wet, marshy situations, in small 
clusters, sometimes forming small bogs—common over the 
country. 
Though Schk. has given figures of C. tentaculata and C. 
rostrata, as if they were different species, yet they are too 
similar to be considered more than mere varieties of the same 
species. ‘They are thus considered by Muh., Pursh, and 
others. In the fig. of C. rostrata, the fruit is rather more 
diverging and the smkes smaller. But it is not uncommon 
to find specimens of C. tentaculata very closely resembling 
the fig. of C. rostrata in Schk., and differing less from it at 
least than the varieties of C. éentaculata differ from each 
other. Mr. Schweinitz supposes that a variety of C. hysteri- 
