Caricography. Q7t 
‘broad at the base, short-oblong, with a long scabrous awn, 
brown on the margin, about thrice the length of the fruit. 
The first is the variety described by Lamarck. It flowers 
in May—grows in wetsituations ; colour a light green. It is 
described under the name of C. leonura by Wahlenberg, and 
as having three stigmas, which is sometimes the fact, it cor- 
responds to tab. Eee fig. 125. Schk. 
The second variety is the C. paleacea, Wahl., described as 
having two stigmas, and corresponds to tab. Tit fig. 164, 
Schk. It flowers in May—grows in light, alluvial soil, or 
along streams, colour yellowish green, often three feet high, 
long, cylindric, recurved, pistillate spikes, densely flowered, 
and supported on rather long reclined peduncles, and with a 
pistillate scale more than three times as long as the fruit, and 
terminated by a long, rough, serrate curve. 
The third variety is the one named C. gynandra by Mr. 
Schweinitz, and, as appears from a comparison of specimens, 
differs but little from the more common form of the species. 
71. C. atrata, Lin. 
Pers. no. 28. Wahl. no. 114. 
Rees’? Cyc. no. 74. Schw. 
Schk, tab. X fig. 77. 
Spicis tristigmaticis subquaternis oblongo-ovatis subcernu- 
is, terminali androgyna inferne staminifera, superis confertis 
sessilibus, inferis subdistantibus pedunculatis subrotundo- 
ovalibus compressis glabris breviter rostratis ore bilabiato, 
squama oblonga acutiuscula nigra paulo brevioribus. 
Culm about a foot high, triquetrous, scarcely scabrous, leafy 
and brownish towards the base; leaves linear-lanceolate, short- 
er than the culm, nearly flat, striate; bracts long and leafy ; 
spikes three to five, with three stigmas, oblong-ovate, densely 
flowered, rather nodding, the highest androgynous, staminate 
- below, the others with scattered staminate florets, three highest 
sessile and approximate, the lower rather distant, and pedun- 
culate, sometimes nodding, and nearly destitute of sheaths ; 
fruit roundish oval, sometimes slightly obovate and somewhat 
acute at the base, compressed, glabrous, with a short, two- 
lipped beak: pistillate scale oblong, somewhat acute, black, 
a little longer than the fruit. Colour of the spikes black, of 
the plant light green; agrees with the same species received 
from Silesia, 
