58 C. Dewey on Caricography. 
short spikes, pubescent, sub-long-rostrate, bifid and bicostate, tapering at 
the base so as to be stipitate;  Besiata scale ovate-lanceolate and subcus- 
pidate, sometimes reddish on the back, a little longer than the fruit 
especially on the lower kes 
I 
more than 20 years since at the outlet of Lake Sandford, Essex County, 
., and sent to me as C, umbellata, which it somewhat resembled, 
but having pubescent and two-ribbed, not nerved, frui 
Though Dr. Bodtt seems to doubt whether this ates is “more than 4 
_lax variety of C. umbellata,” it has such characters that “future observers” 
will not probably doubt its specific claims. If C. umbellata must have 
joerc spikes at the root, this can not be that species. By some little 
oe n the description, C. umbellata, C. alpestris and C. Rossii, might 
be! unit 
279. C. Grayi, Carey, in Sill. Journ, 1847. Boott, Illust. No. 148,— 
C. intumescens var, globularis, Gray in Ann. ‘Lye. N. Y. 
Spica staminifera unica gracili cylindracea pedunculata; fruciferis 2 
= iuterdum = lobosis densifloris per-amplis approximatis foliosi- 
acteatis pedunculatis ; fructibus ¢ristigmaticis ovato-conicis tereti-rostra- 
te Fimultiisevate ond Mahe s divergentibus vel deflexis glabris et laevibus 
bidentatis squama ovata acuta vel cuspidata triplo longioribus; foliis et 
bracteis glabris culmo multo oo, 
Culm 15 to 25 inches high, o e (Carey), “ome a robust, 
smooth, but rough above lower vistillate spike, leafy and both 
leaves and bracts longer than the culm, and rather wide; "teribiad spike 
staminate and cylindric, sender pistillate spikes two, ’ sometimes one, 
approximate and pedunculate, scarcely vaginate or sheathed, large, globose 
or capitate, with many (15-35) Pees fruit large and close divergent or 
reflexed ; stigmas three; fruit ovate-conic inflated, terete-rostrate bifurcate 
ssl and sleek, many-nerved (20-30), thrice longer than the ovate and 
acute or cuspidate scale. 
Oriskany, and along the Mohawk and Wood Creek, N. Y., Dr. Gray; 
Columbus, Ohio, og capes: Menard Co., Mid. IIL, é. Hall, Esq. To 
Grayi, a strong ‘and robust plant as described Soe We also fi found 
several others of much interest and yet to be mentioned. ane specimens 
from ree Hal] had the fewest and the most fruit before se 
This ies is well characterized, and deserves, as it se received, an 
“Shean name, which is likely to endure. Yet, it is obvious that a trifling 
enlargement of the characters of C. intumescens, Rudge, would include 
under that name, C. Grayi, C. Halei, Carey, C. eee. and perhaps ©. 
turgescens. Now, these are separated by such properties of plant and 
Fruit as have separated C. cephalophara and C. EB : 
iced 1. Near the species above, grew C. Hitchcockiana, in large clus- _ 
