276 Professor Dewey^s Caricography. 



9. C. straminea, Willd. 



Muh. Eaton, VVahl. and Pers. 



Schk. tab. G. fig. 34, and tab. Xxx. fig. 147. 



This is a beautiful carex, and is easily recognized by a 

 character distinctly marked by Muh, alone, '}ts vnnged fruit. 

 The fruit is broad-ovate, beaked, compressed, distinctly cili- 

 ate-serraie, two-toothed and widely winged, zoith an ovate- 

 lanceolate scale commonly shorter than the fruit. The di- 

 ameter of the cavity occupied by the seed is about one 

 third of the diameter of the fruit. Though the spikelets 

 vary fiom five to seven or more, it has sometimes only 

 three spikelets, clustered at the summit of the culm. In 

 this sfati' it may be the C. leporina in Ph.'s Fl., as it differs 

 very little from thedescription he has given. Unless thss be 

 the plant intended by Pursh, it has not been found and an- 

 nounced by any other botanist in our country. The refer- 

 ence of Muh. to fig. 174 of Schk. is a typographical error, 

 — it should be fig. 147. 



10, C. ovalis, Gooden. 



Pursh, Eaton, Pers., and Rees' Cyc. 

 Schk. tab. B. fig. 8. 



C. leporina, L. Sp. PI. 8, according to Wahl. 

 and Agardh. 



Goodenough considered this species to be difierent from 

 C. leporina, which he supposed was a native of the Alps. 

 In this opinion he is followed in Rees' Cyc, though the 

 writer remarks that Wahl. considers both to be C. leporina, 

 L. M !ch confusion of names has arisen from the fact that 

 Goodenough seems to have referred to the C. leporina, Fl. 

 Dan. t, 294 and the C. approximata, Hoppe. Both these 

 are quoted by Wahl. as the same with his C. lagopina, of 

 which he gives the locality, "in alpibus Lapponiarum sep- 

 tentr." One of the references of Ph. under his C. lepori- 

 na is to the Fl. Dan. 294 It would seem, therefore, un- 

 less there be other species for the game reference, that the 

 C. leporina in Ph.'s Fl. and C. lagopina, Wahl. are the same 

 plant. h\ his Car. Scan. Agardh describes Q. leporina, L. 

 and quotes the fig. in Schk. taken from C. ovalis, Gooden. ^ 



