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BOTANY. 
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Art. 1V.—Caricography ; (continued from Vol. VII. p 
278.) Communicated to the Lyceum of Nat. Hist. of ihe 
Berkshire Medical Institution. 
12. Carex curta. Gooden. 
Muh. Pursh, and hp 
Schk. tab. C. fig. 
C. canescens, L. Flor. Suec. Pica dit Wahl. and 
Agardh. 
°C. canescens : spiculis basi masculis cup eaaprosiniatis 
quinis, squamis subequantibus, capsulis subrotundo-ova- 
tis acutiusculis convexo-subconvexiusculis subobtus-angu- 
lis ore bidentato.” Wahl. No. 49. 
@. spiculis superioribus aggregatis, capsulis patentibus 
acutis convexo-planiusculis subacutangulis.” Wahl. 
Culm 16—24 inches high, triangular and scabrous at the 
upper part—leaves subradical, narrow, carinate, nearly the 
length of the culm—spikelets 4—6, sub-cylindric, alternate, 
remotish; stamens chiefly at the base of the upper spikelet, 
and a bristleform scabrous bract commonly at:the base of 
the lowest spikelet—fruit ovate obtuse, sometimes ovate 
and sub-aeuminate, sub-scabrous, slightly two-toothed, 
convex on the upper and nearly flat on the lower side—scale 
ovate, white, with a green keel, almost hyaline, varying 
from two thirds to the full length of the fruit and the longer 
scales more acute. The whole plant is sometimes of a 
green colour, and at others, especially when it grows in very 
wet places, of a pale ash-colour; and when mature, easily 
distinguished by its silvery spikelets. Flowers in May— 
found in wet places about woods in cespitose clusters. 
Stigmas 2. 
This is a variable species, and the several deseriitete 
differ in a slight degree from each other. Gooden. suppos- 
ed that his C. suean differed from C. canescens, L. Both 
spectes, however, are considered the same by Wahl. and 
Agardh. If Linneus applied his name to different plants, 
