228 C. Dewey on Caricography. 
rostrate and the beak often turned one side or refracted, two-toothed, 
smooth, near twice in or rarely little longer than the ovate or oblong 
obtuse or sub-acute sc. 
Discovered in a caih | in Bergen, 20 miles west of Rochester, by Rev. 
. A. Paine; the first known locality in the United States; fruit mature 
in June, 1865, On some of the Bergen specimens, the refraction of the 
culm below the staminate spike and of the beak of the fruit, psc: 
lars are found on many of the European specimens. ‘The ae is 
given in the description of Kunze and Steudel as a common fact, and in 
‘some popular remarks of Fries; and the latter is alluded to, with the 
other, as of no consequence, by Andersson in his Cyperacez Scandinavie; 
while Lang states of the former that he had examined it on the C. vagi- 
numerous specimens he had collected or growing in their indigenous 
state. Of course Dr. Lang did not introduce the Fehon of the stem 
into his description of this species, 
eight of C. vaginata (5 to 12 inches by Steudel), the greater 
width of the leaves (foliis latis, Lang); the short ome -like leaf or ter- 
mination of the broad sheath in Andersson, so clear on the specimens 
from ~ amps and on the figures of Kunze and Rance on, the more thick 
and coarse leaves and more stocky form, as well as differences in the 
fruit, distinguish He Bergen plant from the European. 
* No. 288. ©. Macounii, Dew. 
Spicis variis ordinatis distinctis vel inordinatis cylindraceis ene 
bracteatis; ordinatorum staminiferis 2, inferiore breviore longo-brac 
_ tillis cael supra va medio vel infra interpositis, val ‘interdum termina 
epics age spake et dimidio inferiore fructifera, tune terminali aie 
longa et in medio vel basi pauco-staminifera ; spicis pistilliferis sub- 
quinis cylindraceis erectis laxifloris, inferioribus longa — pedunca ulatis, 
infima apice vel medio rard staminifera: fructibus tristigmaticis ovati 
longo-conico-subinflatis leevibus nervosis pabpaalealtg substipitatis longo- 
ili-rost: Deeraiie SLSTEPO UTNE vel rectangule separati s, squamam ovato- 
evconolatari : br acteis foliisque 
margine vix ee et culmo levi longioribus ; culmo foliis basin breviore. 
ne to two boy Peg erect, smooth ; bracts and leaves long, 
narrow, linear-l: a ower much surpassing the culm, smoo 
but slightly scabrous he edges, nodose; spikes six, cylindric, es 
culate; the pistillate ee inches Hong fe fessile above and sheathed exsert- 
pedunculate Lee vel e; lar, paeninsiy spikes 2 2, 
bearing long lan ceolate scales very lax ae and the peer 4, upper 
most subsessile and the others remote, long pedunculate, erect; (2.) irregu- 
lar, staminate spike terminal long, with a few scattered fruit at the Ver 
tex or in the middle or below, ma pistillate 5, with some stamens at the 
c of the upper, some times the terminal 2-3 inches long and upper 
half pistillate with the lower half staminate, sometimes the ‘terminal 
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