Caricography. 59 



Art. VII. — Caricography; by Prof. C. Dewey. 



Appendix, continued from Vol. xxix. p. 253. 



No. 159. Carex blepharophora, Gray.* 



Tab. Aa. %. 85. 



Spica staminifera solitaria erecta ; pistilliferls tristigmaticis ternis 

 vel quaternis oblongis cylindraceis nutantibus ; fructibus ovatis sub- 

 conicis rostratis bidentatis, squamam ovatara oblongam obtusiusculam 

 paulo longioribus ; foliis bracteisque ciliatis. 



Culm twelve to eighteen inches high, erect, striate ; glabrous, sca- 

 brous above ; leaves short, and shortest below, lanceolate, with 

 sheaths purple at the base, and bracts and leaves slightly ciliate on 

 the margin; stigmas three; pistillate spikes 3 — 4, pedunculate, 

 pendulous, and short-sheathed ; fruit ovate, conic-terete, rostrate, 

 equal or a little shorter than the obtusish and ovate oblong scale. 

 This is a handsome and rather slender species ; scales of the sta- 

 mens like those of the pistils ; color of the plant a light green. 



Found in the middle parts of the State of New York, by Dr. A. 

 Gray. 



No. 160. C. stenolepis, Torrey. 



Tab. Aa. fig. 86. 



Spica staminifera solitaria brevissima et minuta ; pistilliferis sub- 

 quinis oblongis cylindraceis perdensifloris erectis, inferioribus exserte 

 pedunculatis ; fructibus oblongis obovatis basi teretibus apice obtu- 

 sissimis et longorostratis bifurcatis divergentibus subretrorsis, squama 

 lineari basi subdilata in aristae forma paulo longioribus. 



Culm eighteen to twenty four inches high, triquetrous, smooth, 

 striate, erect, stiff; leaves linear-lanceolate, scabrous on the edge, 

 nerved, with long and striate sheaths, and both leaves and sheaths 

 shorter below; bracts very long and leafy, and the upper leaves and 

 lower bracts far surpassing the stem ; staminate spike small and 

 short, (sometimes wanting,) with scales long and linear-cuspidate 

 and scabrous ; pistillate spikes four to six, cylindric, rather large, 

 very densely flowered, on stiff and shortish peduncles, the upper 

 being nearly sessile ; fruit, in the younger state, round and ovate 



* In the Annals of the Lycevun of Nat. History, New York, Vol. iii. p. 235. 



