Caricograplhiy. 41 
“ormibus sparsifloris remotis cernuis longo exserte peduncu~ 
latis ; fructibus ovatis triquetris glabris subventricosis longi- 
usCule rostratis bifidis, squama Ovata mucronata membranacea 
vix superantibus. 
Culm 9—18 inches high, leafy, seabrous above, trique- 
trous; leaves linear-lanceolate, shorter than the culm, rough 
on the edges, and like the preceding wiih brownish sheaths 
at the base; bracts leafy, about equal io the culm, lower ones 
long; staminate spike single, erect, subpedunculate, slender ; 
staminate scale oblong, acute, membranaceous, white, green 
on the kee’, pistillate spikes generally four, an inch to an inch 
and a half long, loose-flowered, nodding, filiform, remote, 
exsertly pedunculate,—lower ones with long peduncles ex- 
tending from long sheaths ; stigmas three ; fruit ovate, tri- 
quetrous, glabrous, rostrate, bifid ; pistillate scale ovate, white 
on the margin, green on the keel, mucronate, nearly equal- 
ling the fruit. Colour of the plant light green. 
Flowers in May and June—grows in the same situations 
as the preceding—common, but not abundant, in this county. 
Newburgh, N Y.and near Little Falls on the Mohawk. 
This species has not heretofore been credited to our coun- 
try. Schk. has given two figs. of the plant with which ours 
well agrees. It differs from C. flexuosa in the particulars 
mentioned by Willd. Its fruit is shorter and more inflated 
than that of C. flexuosa, and its pistillate scale is longer in 
proportion, as well as different in form. 
59. C. limosa. L. 
Pers. no. 179, Agardh. Rees’ Cyc. no. 130. 
Schk. tab. X. fig. 78. 
C. lenticularis. Mx. and Schw. 
Am. Journ. Vol. VII. p. 273. 
Spicis distinctis; spica staminifera solitaria ebracteata ; 
spicis fructiferis tristigmaticis subbinis ovatis vel oblongis sub- 
longo-spedunculatis subsparsifloris pendulis subremotis ; fruc- 
tibus ellipticis compressis brevissime rostratis ore integris, 
squame ovate-cuspidate et ovato-lanceolate vel oblong» 
subequalibus. 
Culm about one foot high, ascending, obtusely triquetrous, 
subscabrous above; leaves subradical, rather glaucous, 
narrow, flat, carinate, sometimes a little rolled in 
on the edge ; scarcely as long as the culm, with brownish 
sheaths at the base ; bracts leafy, linear, surpassing the stem 
with very short brownish sheaths; staminate spike single, 
Vou. X.—No. 1. 6 
