240 Caricography . 



highest is staminate below, with an obovate and brownish scale ; stig- 

 mas three ; fruit ovate, convex above, flat beneath, smooth, obtuse, 

 very short-rostrate, dark brown ; pistillate scales ovate, obtuse, dark 

 broAvn, white on the edge, a httle shorter than the fruit. 



Belongs in the subdivision with C. virescens, &c. and is a distinct 

 and beautiful species, found by Dr. Richardson near Carlton House 

 in the Northern regions. 



Note. — The following species was described in Vol. XI. p. 161. 

 The following more full description is taken from specimens from the 

 arctic regions. 



C. aristata, R. Br. 



Schw. and Torrey, No. 104. 



Tab. V. fig. 67. 



Spicis distinctis, staminiferis binis rel pluribus erectis sessilibus, 



fructiferis tristigmaticis subternis cylindraceis distantibus subdensi- 



floris, inferiore pedunculata, caeteris subsessilibus ; fructibus ovato- 



lanceolatis longo-rostratis alto-bifidis nervosis glabris, squama ovata 



aristata longioribus. 



Culm one or two feet high, erect, triquetrous, scabrous above, 

 leafy, with long leafy sheathing bracts ; leaves flat, long, linear-lan- 

 ceolate, striate, rough on the edge, and villose under side and on the 

 sheaths ; staminate spikes two to four, erect, cylindric, sessile, some- 

 times with a few scattered fruit, and with lanceolate and curved 

 scales rough at the point ; stigmas three ; pistillate spikes two to 

 four, oblong, cylindric, rather distant, upper subsessile, and lower 

 pedunculate, bracted, rather densely flowered ; fruit ovate, long-ros- 

 trate, glabrous, nerved, smooth, little ventricose, deeply bifid ; scale 

 ovate, awned, and the whole shorter than the fruit. 



Found near Cumberland House by Dr. Richardson, and seems to 

 be between C. buUata and C. ampuUacea. It is a large and hand- 

 some species. 



No. 144. C. ursina, Dewey. 

 Tab. V. fig. 68. 

 Spica unica, inferne staminifera, globosa, densiflora, tristigmatica ; 

 fructibus ovatis compressis lentiformibus laevibus ; squama ovata subor- 

 biculata paulo longioribus. 



Culm two to three inches high, striate, triquetrous ; leaves narrow, 

 involute, filiform, sheathing at the base ; spike single, round, globose, 

 small, densely flowered, pistillate above, three or four staminate 

 flowers at the base ; stigmas three ; fruit ovate, flattish, roundish, ob- 



