es C. Dewey on Caricography. 
sile and bearing long lanceolate scales, rough to the eye but soft to the 
touch ; pistillate spikes commonly 2 and rarely 1, cylindric, exsert-pedun- 
culate, erect, very loose-flowered, short and broad sheathed, the highest 
staminate at the apex and nearly sessile, the lowest sub-remote; stigmas 
3: fruit long, slender, ovate-lanceolate, conic, nerved, smooth, diverging 
and horizontal or sometimes retrorse, stipitate, with a back deeply bifid or 
bifurcate, quite equalling the scale at the base and exceeding the scale at 
the upper part of the spike. Plant yellowish. 
Near Belleville, Canada West, J. Macoun: a fine species. 
No, 201," °C, sed ogee, Boott. lust. 
— angustata var. Sorisillan: Boctt. Fl. Bor.-Am. 1850? 
Spicis cylindraceis 5-6, a ae staminifera unica terminali squamas 
ulm 18 inches high, slender, smooth below and leafy: bracts not 
sheathing, leaf-like, the tower about as long as the culm; staminate spike 
single, erect, scarcely bracteate, and with obtuse tawny scales; pistillate 
. sees cylindric, 1-2 inches Jong, rather close-flowered above, the 
} mote and verticillate-flowered, scarcely pedunculate; stigmas 2; 
fruit onal or oblong, small, roundish, flat-convex, shorter than the oblong: 
acute scale below or the oblong- -obtuse seale above. 
olumbia River, Scouler ; regan, Nuttall ; anes nes Hayden 
No. 292. C. Reana, Boott. Illust. No. 63, et Rich. Exp. Are. 1851. 
Spicis distinctis cylindraceis erectis; staminifera 1-2, termi inali pedun- 
culata, interdum vel raro obtusa brevi sessili subremota, z, Mone. oblongas 
ym 
the lowest on flowenl, <6 especial Sear in ee “ina aa and less 
inflated fruit; in its achenium. So well marked by Dr. Boott are these 
differences that it is likely to stand an acknowledged species. The seed 
or nut he by Dr. Boott differs greatly also from that of C. oli 
in his Illust., No. 62. Some specimens —- the base of the “White 
Mount 
the northern and colder part of our country, it is desirab 
circulation of Dr. Boott’s description. bis Sony chee 
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ountains, N. H., — near it at least. As the plant may be oe in : 
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