C. Dewey on Caricography. ‘ B47 
- Culm 15-30 inches high, erect, triquetrous, longer than the leaves; 
bracts surpassing the culm, bright yellowish green. 
In marshes, not abundant, N. England—TZuckerman ; Rhode Island— 
Olney.; New Jersey, Ohio and westward. 
The Carex, No. 197, vol. xlix, p. 47 of this Journal, accident- 
ally misnamed, is C. Vaseyi, Dew., of which No. 197 contains the accu- 
tate description. From the preceding, C. monile, Tuck., the fruit is very 
different, being ovate, long-conie, subtriquetrous-inflated, glabrous and 
scabro-rostrate. C. Vaseyi is the plant referred to by Dr. Boott, Illust., 
‘0. 71, as different from C. vesicaria and C. monile, but not named by 
him among those sent him from Penn Yan, N. Y., by Dr. Sartwell. The 
_ telerence of No. 197 above to No. 71 in the Illust. is, of course, an over- 
sight. The correction on 197 is C. Vaseyi, Dew. i 
 Note2. C. bullata, Schk., Fig. 166, described in this Journal, vol. ix 
p. 71, 1825, from living specimens, and named from its (ball-shaped) 
nearly globose fruit, seems to me, as it does to Carey in Gray’s Manual, 
_ distinct from C. cylindrica, Schw., and from the following number. 
263. C. physema, Dew. . C. bullata, Boott, Illust., No. 71, and Carey 
(non Se 
» Spicis 'staminiferis, 2-3, cylindraceis, gracilibus, contiguis, infima brae- 
teat; pistillifera 1, interdum 2, subrotunda vel oblongo-cylindracea 
Perdensiflora et crassa remota et, subfulva, infima pedunculata et sub- 
tutante vel erecta longi-foliacea bracteata; fructibus turgidi-ovatis longi- 
‘ylindraceis rostratis bifurcatisque, inflatis glabris et scabro-dentatis vel 
‘erratis, squama lanceolata acuta albi-marginata longioribus et latioribus. 
Culm 1-2 foot high or more, firm, slender for the thickness of pistillate 
pike, stiff, triquetrous and often roughish, shorter than the narrow, flat 
and prim leaves ; bright green. ; 
mid meadows, New England to Pennsylvania. 
‘ontracted into a slender, round, long, scabrous 
glume about half as lone. ‘ ‘aad i 
the Carex, Boott, Iilust., No. 39, the fruit is very large and inflated- 
ovate, with a conic, tapering, three-sided beak, scabrous-dentate, cgi 
thick, dense and large spikes. If the figure by D 
lata, Schk., then fhe rare in Schk. is d valyable caricature. 
the Correctness of the figure of Schk., I may yet s h 
aoe a well known and distinct form. . It 1s ; 
Ye another name, which designates the inflation of the fruit or peri- 
 Sbium, like the other. 
266, <0, Olneyi, Boott, Ilust., No. 40. 3g 
Spicis stamiferis, 2-4, saepe 3, eylindraceis approximatis gracilibus ; 
feris saepe 2, vel 1-3, cylindaceis sub-crassis d 
nutant eee ‘ A ae tis brevi-conico- 
- bifurcatis €, bracteatis; fructibus inflati-ova PT. vel ouapidata 
longioribus 
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