Professor Dewey\ Carlcography. tlT 



and subjoins the following pointed remark. " Gel. Good- 

 enough primus statuit suam C ovalem differre a G. lepori- 

 na Linnaei quam Alpium incolam esse o,t spicula? tantujn 

 tres habere existimavit. Quod vero non facile creds po- 

 test, cum Linnaeus G. leporinam in Suecia vulgarem esse 

 et spiculas 5 — 6 habere asserit." In comparing specimens 

 named C. leporina in Sweden and England, thej^ appear to 

 agree with the description of G. leporina in Wahl and 

 Agardh ; butthey appear to differ somewhat from my English 

 Specimen named C. ovalis, and from its fig. in Schk. The 

 description of G. leporina in Mx.' Fl. does not well agree 

 with G. ovalis or with the account of G. leporina by 

 Agardh or in Rees' Gyc. 



To ascertain G. ovalis by the descriptions in Ph. and 

 Eaton is impossible. They do not accurately describe the 

 fruit, and omit the scale entirely. The fruii is ovate acu- 

 minate, or ovate-oval acvminate, two'toothed, ciliate-serrate, 

 egacillins the ovate-lauceolate acute scale scarious on the mar- 

 gin and keel green. The spikelets have bracts, the lowest 

 being long and sub-ieafy, and the colour of the spikelets is 

 " rusty-green.'' Muh. does not appear to have found the 

 true G. ovalis, if indeed it be in our country. He consid- 

 ered the G. scoparia, Schk., which he has so perfectly de- 

 scrib-^d and which corresponds so entirely to the fig. of 

 Schk. tab. Xxx. fig. 175, as related to C. ovalis or leporina. 

 It seems, however, to diflfer much from C. leporina of Swe- 

 den. 



11. C aristata. 



Terminal spike androgynous, staminate below ; staminate 

 scale lanceolate acute : pistillate spikes three, peduncled, 

 sub-pendulous, with sheaths shorter than the peduncles and 

 terminating in long leafy bracts ; fruit oblong three-sided, 

 acute at both ends, slightly two-toothed, a little shorter 

 than the oblong-lanceolate awned scale. Leaves and sheaths 

 pubescent. 



This plant is undoubtedly the unnamed Garex No. 46 of 

 Muh. It agrees most exactly with his popular description of 

 the plant- It belongs in the same subdivision in Ph. and 

 Eaton with G. virescens. It is a very distinct species, and 

 no fig. in Schk. corresponds to it. I have given the above 

 specific name, on account of the peculiar awned pistillate 

 scale. 



