72 C. Dewey on Caricography. 
terdum ad basin vel erga apicen pauco fructiferis, cum glumis 
longis arctis attenuatis scabro-subulatis; spicis pistilliferis 1-2, 
Jaxifloris suberectis sub-remotis ad apicen vulgo staminiferis; 
ost 
profundi-fisso bicuspidato interdum bifurcato vel bidentato: 
glumis fructiferis lineari-lanceolatis scabro-subulatis, fructu st 
> ten, of the lowest scales even twice as long as the fr 
Plant pale green. 
In Greece, eleven miles west of Rochester and six south of 
Lake Ontario, in 1829, by Dr. S. B. Bradley. _ It was not named 
for a long time, as its anomalous characters made more specimens 
desirable. But no others have been discovered in the vicit 
of this locality, which the clearing of the forest destroyed. 
Belleville, Canada West, in 1863-4 by John Macoun, Esq. 2 : 
form, sent by him, accords with the above description, especially 
in the varieties of the fruit, of the rostrum, and the very long 
scale of the fruit at the base of the lower pistillate spike. 
#. Brown, by a mistaken’ reference to my description of C. at 
* His reference, “C. mirata, Dewey, Sill. Jour., xxvii, 240, v, 49, 48; Wood's Bots 
should have been C. aristata, Dewey, Sill..J., xxviii, 240, vol. xlix, 48 p.; @. mira 
J . Bot. Not only was the yolume wrong, but mirata was uninte® 
tionally substituted for aristata by Dr. Boott, which changed the whole subjem 
Indeed the full descripti to by 
“oot, was printed years before I had heard of C. mirata, proving that the desctl 
tion was of C. aristata evidently, and of no other, it may properly be added, 
: es 1858. 
__if the “Note,” Sill. Jour., xlix, 48, 1845, is noticed with care, it is obvious a mit 
» be last sentence denies what the preceding asserts. 
