95 Caricography. 
C. scoparia. Flowers in May and June—grows in moist 
meadows. Stigmas, 2. 
From C. scoparia, this species is clearly distinct. It 
much resembles C. festucacea, but differs in the number, 
position, form and colour of the spikelets. Though about as 
tall a plant as C. festucacea, it is much smaller in all its 
parts, andits fruit is much less diverging. It belongs in the 
same division in Ph. and Eaton with the preceding species. 
18. C. formosa. (Mihi.) 
Spicis oblongis crassis secundis quaternis distantibus ex- 
serte pedunculatis nutatibus, suprema inferne mascula ; 
fruct:bus oblongis triquetris subinflatis utrinque acutius- 
culis ore subintegro vel bilobo, squama ovata acuta duplo 
majoribus. . 
Culm 12—-18 inches high, triangular, leafy; leaves sheath- 
ing, shorter below, linear-lanceolate, dark brown at the 
root, and shorter than the culm; spikes four oblong, thick, 
somewhat 3-sided, on slender long recurved peduncles 
which are longer than the sheaths ; bracts long, leafy, with 
sheaths less than half the length of the peduncles ;, leaves 
and sheaths pubescent or slightly pilose ; fruit distinctly 
3-sided, somewhat acute at both ends, inflated in the mid- 
dle, glabrous, yellowish, nerved, close-set, with an open, 
nearly entire or slightly two-lobed orifice ; stigmas three ; 
staminate scale oblong. obtusish ; pistillate scale ovate, 
acute or slightly awned, white on the edges and green on 
the keel, about half the length of the fruit. The colour of 
the plant is yellowish green. Flowers in May—found at 
Stockbridge in wet. upland meadows, and growing in great 
abundance with C. flava. 
‘This species is closely allied to C. miclichoferi, Schk. 
tab. Mmm. fig. 198. It differs, however, inthe androgy- 
nous and upper pistillate spike, and its fruit is not sub-his- 
pid, is more acute, and has a more entire orifice. It hasa 
nearer resemblance to the following species named by the 
Rev. L. D. de Schweinitz ; his description however | have 
not seen. - 
19. C. gracillima. Schw. 
Spicis longis gracilibus distantibus sub-laxifloris quaternis 
exserte pedunculatis, suprema inferne mascula, omnibus 
bracteatis; fructibus oblongis triquetris obtusis ore obliquo et 
