62 Caricography. 



Culm a foot or more high, triquetrous, leafy ; bracts leafy, linear- 

 lanceolate, shorter than the culm ; staminate spike single, rarely two, 

 one very short, with oblong and obovate obtuse scales ; stigmas 

 three ; fruit ovate, roundish, terete, subrostrate, two forked ; pistil- 

 late scales ovate, acutish, half the length of the fruit ; color light 

 green. 



Found near Boston, by B. D. Green ; probably introduced like 

 Q.panicca, from Europe ; it is very like the C. binervis of Europe. 



No. 165. C. Columbiana, D. 

 Tab. Bb. fig. 90. 



Spicis plurlbus subsenis androgynis inferne staminiferis tristigmatl- 

 cis pedunculalis subnutantibus approximatis oblongis cylindraceis 

 densifloris, suprema in medio pauci-fructifera, inferioribus inferne 

 pauci-staminiferis ; fructibus obovatis acuminatis subrostratis com- 

 pressis oblongis, squama lineari-lanceolata angusta multo longioribus. 



Culm two to three feet high, striate, triquetrous, scabrous above, 

 with a leafy bract under the lowest spike, and with other bracts 

 cuspidate; leaves long, linear, narrow, flat, striate ; stigmas three ; 

 spikes about six, an inch or more long, the upper staminate except 

 a few fruit in the middle, the others with a few staminate flowers at 

 the base of each, all pedunculate and somewhat recurved, large and 

 cylindric, and densely flowered ; staminate scale oblong, obovate, 

 obtuse and black ; pistillate scale linear-lanceolate, rather obtuse, 

 narrow and deep brown ; fruit oblong, and obovate, acuminate, sub- 

 rostrate, compressed, broader and one half longer than the scale. 



Found at Columbia River by Dr. Scoreler, and in the herbarium 

 of Dr. Torrey. 



No. 166. C. Martensii, Frescott.* 



Spicis pluribus 4 — 7, androgynis inferne staminiferis approximatis 

 linearibus pendulis distigmaticis ; fructibus ovato-lanceolatis com- 

 pressis membranaceis ore integerrimis, squama lanceolata latioribus et 

 longioribus. 



Culm three to four feet high ; spikes linear ; the fruit or covering 

 of the seed very delicate, hyaline, entire, without any teeth. — 

 Prescott. 



* Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburgh, VI. Sec. torn. 3. 

 p. 168, in a paper by M. Bougard on the plants of Sitcha, Russian America. 



