330 C. Dewey on Caricography. 
from the same section of the etate, which sometimes has a pistillate spike 
contiguous to the staminate on the leaf-bearing culm, 
Of C. irrigua, Sm., vol. x, p. 42, now C. Magellanica, Lam., vol. XXxIX, 
1865, is found a form approximating toward that of the preceding 
anomalies, viz., nearly, but not quite, radical long peduncles bearing a 
single pistillate spike. Swamp near Roime,—Paine 
C. pubescens, Muh., so regular in its form, occasionally has a long, 
nearly radical, peduncle and spike, far from the usual place of the lowest - 
pistillate. Mr. Paine. 
C. Sartwelli, Dew., vol. xliii, p. 90, 1842, is found to be a variety of 
C. intermedia, Gooden. in Schk. (the C. multiformis, Thuillier), which 
was afterwards seen to be a form of the earlier named C, disticha, Huds., 
in Fl, Ang.; but all these, sometimes in one locality, are found growing 
in the states of New York, Illinois, Wisconsin, Canada West and other 
British possessions. The designations should have the following order : 
C. disticha, Huds., substituted for the later synonym, 
— intermedia, Gooden., vol. iv, p. 343, 1847; 
var. Sartwellii, Dew., in place of this named species above. 
C. muricata var. cephaloidea, Dew., this Journal, vol. xi, p. 308, 1826, 
is C. sparganioides, Muhl., var. minor, Boott, Illust., No. 284, and first 
published in 1862 by him. 
C. miliaris, Mx., vol. x, p. 36, 1826 this Journal. The description 
according to that of Michaux was given to aid botanists in detecting 
h passed, and this is the only species 
narrow linear scales, I als gure of the same, taken at Paris 
and sent to Dr. Torrey, who lo politely made me a present of It 
All the figures are very much 2, and indicate the plant to have an 
erect slender culm, with , very narrow and very long leaves, 
at m re all shorter than the culm. On m ure the stigmas ar 
not given, but the fruit agrees with Michaux’s language, with a scale 
His friend also 
Such is the amount of present knowledge of @. miliaris, Mx. 
thinks, it will be found to be, when discovered, “inseparable from C, sar- 
