Caricography. 247 



Culm four to eight inches high, erect, slightly scabrous, trique- 

 trous, striate ; leaves shorter below, upper one about as long as the 

 culm ; spikes androgynous staminate below, oblong-cylindric, about 

 four, short pedunculate, approximate, brownish ; fruit broad lanceo- 

 late, acute at each end, acuminate or rostrate, compressed, bifid, 

 and shghtly winged, convex above ; scale ovate, obtusish, tawny, 

 broad, shorter than the fruit. 



Found on the Rocky Mountains.. 



No. 149. C. membranacea , Hooker.* 

 Tab. X. fig. 73. 



Spicis distinctis, starainiferis sub-binis oblongis cylindraceis cum 

 squamis e laciniis membranaceis ; pistilliferis tristigmaticis cylindra- 

 ceis subbinis, suprema superne staminifera sessile, infima saepe pe- 

 dunculata, omnibus dense fructiferis et nigris ; fructibus ovatis sub- 

 triquetris ventricosis brevi-rostratis ore bilobis, squama ovata obtusa 

 longioribus. 



Culm about a foot high, erect triquetrous, scabrous above, leafy 

 towards the base ; leaves nearly long as the culm, shorter below ; 

 staminate spikes 1 — 3, oblong, cylindric, sessile, with oblong and 

 obtuse and black scales but white and membranaceous on the edge ; 

 stigmas three ; pistillate spikes 1 — 3, commonly two, upper sessile 

 and staminate above, lower pedunculate or sometimes sessile also, 

 densely flowered, oblong and cylindric and black, with a leafy bract ; 

 fruit ovate, ventricose, sub-triquetrous, short-rostrate, orifice two- 

 lobed, black ; pistillate scale ovate, obtuse, black, shorter than the 

 fruit. 



This is a beautiful species. Found at sea coast, Arctic regions, 

 at Bear Lake, and on the Rocky Mountains, and Kotzbue's Sound. 

 It is a distinct species, the scales and covering of seed being sin- 

 gularly membranaceous.- — Hooker. 



No. 150. C. marina, D. 



Tab. X. fig. 74. 



Spiculis androgynis distigmaticis inferne staminiferis subternis ap- 



proximatis sessilibus, infima bracteata ; glurais omnibus fuscis ova- 



to-obtusis ; fructibus ovatis sub-lanceolatis acutiusculis plano-con- 



vexis, squama paulo longioribus. 



* In Appendix to PaiT}''s second Voyage, and Hooker and Arnoll's Botany of 

 Capt. Beechy's Voyage. 



