\ 
Mountains, a abou t P eege Tuckerman. In Harrison, 
lake. 
348 C. Dewey on Caricography. 
Culm 15-22 inches high, enone obtusely triquetrous, scabrous abore, 
shorter than the long and stiff margined leaves. 
Rhode Island— Olney ; probably associated with this group over the 
country. Were it not for the very different spikes, the fruit would closdy 
ally this species to C. physema, as being a smaller form of it 
femark.—-This Vesicaria group is - ae determination, and there 
has been much confusion in consequence. Hoping that some light has 
shined upon it, I can ony say with Dr. Boott, that “future o 
must determine in Am ca the value to be affixed to the species of this 
group.” The fbllowitig ‘hii the group as here exhibited: 
C. eee — Boott, Ilust., No. 39. 
C. Vaseyi, Dew. C. monile, Sart., Exsic. No. 1% and Sill. Journ, [1] 
vole 48, p. 47, putting C. Vaseyi for C. m 
C. bullata, Schk. Dew., Sill. Journ. vol. 9, p. iT tack Boott or Carey). 
C. physema, Dew. C. bullaia, Boott, and Carey i in Manual. 
C. 4 seme Boott. Dew., Sill. Journ., vol. 49, p. 47. C. cylindrica, 
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Car F 
C. Olney, Boott, Illust., and as above. ‘ 
As Dr. Boott dag found C. lenticularis, Mx., among the northern Ci a 
tif ied * 
C. lenticularis, Mx. Boott, Tae No. 7 te Fig. 77. ©. concolor, R. Br. 
in this Jou 
Spicis + hi ice obtusis approximatis et sessilibus ; staminifera units . 
interdum 2, infima brevi, vel terminali superne sepe fructifera ; pisti rire 
: i tamiD 
ovatis, per-brevi-rostellatis nervosis stramineis glabris, squama 
obtusa pallida longioribus ; planta matura concolo 
Culm 8-14 inches high, triquetrous, erect, leafy towards the bas : 
leaves about the length of the culm, and sheaths longer than the culm; 
cylindrical, erect, the lowest sometimes vaginate-bracted ; stigmas or 4 
sub-ovate, longer than the — pee white-edged scale ; whole pit 4 
ht gteen, nearly of the same Var. 4 
i wans and Arctic pec Michaux and Richardson. abore e 
Albi-montana, has fruit less ss oval, or ovate and acutish, tapering ite 4 
resembling somewhat C. torta, but taller than the Arctic plants od Me, about 4 
o 
i 
m, 
San A—On p. 232, vol. xxviii, for C. digas ees » gyn Se, a 
son indy same vol., for vol. xxiv, p. 48, read vol. xxvii, p- 81, See 4 
numbers 254, 255 and 256, Nae ott 258 ses ial 259. 
