C. Dewey on Caricography. 329 
ufts 
The divergence of the fruit msl C. retrorsa more than C. lu upu- 
These differences are too marked for the same species; but™for the 
present, and until Soeene forms fail to be discovered, it may be wise 
to call it var. gigantoid 
Near Cayuga oy ee Tompkins Co.,—H. B. Lord 
who has pointed out most of the above differences. He stated also that 
Dr. tie as well as myself, thought the plant a form of C. gigantea at 
the 
C. gigantea, maw described by Rudge in the Transactions of the Linn. 
Soc., 1803, was credited to Carolina. It has been found growing in 
Louisiana, and bei wig as far as Kentucky and Delphic. From the 
last state it was sent me a few w years ago and also this year, by Wm. M. 
anby, Esq. It is a southern plant, and finely sce in Boott. 
The first C. lupulina that I saw with two staminate spikes, w 
ale i years ago from Dr. Short, of “Loni Ky. I oe it 
Note leeeilecidaies have tna more full descriptions of some species 
desirable Only a few can be give 
C. filifolia, Nutt., vol. xi, 1826, and vol. xii, 1827, of this Journal. 
Illust., No. 36 6, fig. 37, Boott. 
neinia breviseta, Torr. Mon., p. 428. 
Spike single, oe chet shows, cylindrie or tapering, with broad close 
and obtuse scales, brown and white edged, pistillate at the base and also 
much larger by the a pe six or eight fruit; stigmas three; fruit ovate- 
triquetrous, rather obovate in maturity, tapering below, 1-4 on the small 
form and 3-8 on the taller, short- -apiculate, about equalling the short © 
<a fea and often very obtuse or even oe scale, which is sig 
hyaline when the fruit is mature and brown with white edges w 
young; culm 3-4 inches, or 6-8 ci, clastored, with involute filiform 
leaves often nearly as lon g as the 
Plains of Miesaarks- Metall 1818, * . ‘ eespitose, scarcely a hand bresdth 
high 7 Arotic America and widely on the Rocky Mountains,—Richar 
n& Hall Nia ee Nebraska,—F. V. Hayden, 1855: the taller on 
the Rocky Moun 
C. livida, Willd. eats and Gray’s Bot 
— limosa var. tas Wahl. in this Journal, vol. x, p. 41, 1826, credited 
to Becke 
var. pedicles Paine. 
curious vaxier has a pistillate spike on a long radical peduncle 
pete rape same root, with a leafy c sein sgt a terminal staminate spike, 
the peduncle nearly as gee as the 
Cold marshes, Litchfield, feikicer Co. .. N. Y., with the typical iam 
Pain ne, in his excellent “ Plants of Oneida County and vicinity,” now. 
(1865) being printed ; also, in Manchester, N. J.,—Knieskern. 
This is very like that described i in this Sokciel. vol. xxxix, p. 71, 1865, 
Am. Jour, Sc1.—Szconp Sexmms, VoL. XLI, No. 123.—May, 1866. 
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