Ae Carwography. 
rising from the sheath of the highest pistillate, and peduacu- 
late ; staminate scale lanceolate, often oblong, brownish ; 
stigmas three ; pistillate spikes one to three, ovate or oblong, 
sometimes cylindric, long pedunculate, penduious, remotish ; 
fruit compressed, elliptic, or lenticular, rarely obovate, 
searcely rostrate, entire at the orifice ; pistillate scale ovate 
cuspidate, ovate-lanceolate, or oblong and obtusish, some- 
times a little longer or shorter than the fruit, or equal to it, 
becoming brown or reddish, with a green keel. Plant rather 
glaucous, changing to brown. 
6. C.arigua, Wahl Has subcylindric spikes, and long 
acuminate, dark red pistillate scales. Stockbridge. 
y. C. variflora, Wahl. Has sub-linear spikes, rather loose 
flowered, with subcircinate pistillate scales, and oval stami- 
nate scales, with ovate-suboblong fruit 
6. C, livida, Wahl. Has shorter peduncles, few-flowered, 
oblong pistillate scale about equal to the fruit, and obtusish, 
with rather ovate-oblong fruit, and sub-incurved leaves. 
Becket. 
s. C. oblonga, (mihi,) spikes rather long cylindric. White 
Mts. N. H. 
Flowers in June. Grows on marshes about ponds. Stock- 
bridge and Becket—Dr. Emmons. Ashfield—Dr. J. Porter. 
Mt. Washington, N. H.—Dr. Barratt. 
In Vol. VII. p. 273, the description of C. lenticularis, Mx. 
was given, as well as the popular characters of the above 
plant. The resemblance of our plant to C. limo a was also 
mentioned, though it was then supposed to be a different spe- 
cies. | have little doubt that C. denticularis, Mx. is the same 
plant, as the beak is scarcely to be perceived on some speci- 
mens. From an examination of our plant from different 
places, of which at least three varieties are now before me, 
and one different also from those given by Wallenbergh, and 
from a comparison of them with C. /i;:osa from Engla:d and 
Sweden, there can be no doubt that our plant is the C. limo- 
sa, L. The Carex, Vol. IX. Tab. A. fig. 2, named C. len 
ficularis, must be considered a var. of C. limosa. 
60 C. leucoglochin. Ebrh. 
Wahl. no. 8, Pers no. 6. 
C. pauciflora. Schk. tab A. fig. 4. Rees’ Cye. ne. 9. 
C. pulicaris. Lin. Flor. Suec.* 
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* This is not ©, pultcaris, Sehk. the C. ysyllophora, Ehrh. 
