352 Varicography. 



glabris ore integris, squama ovato-lanceolata paulo longi- 

 oribus. 



Culm about a foot high, triquetrous, scabrous above ; 

 leaves linear, triquetrous, erect, rather stiff, a little shorter 

 than the culm, sheathing at the base ; bracts long, lance- 

 linear, with short sheaths ; staminate spike single, an inch 

 and half long, slender, triquetrous, pedunculate, with a sca- 

 ly and linear bract, and closely imbricated and oblong and 

 obtuse scales ; stigmas three ; pistillate spikes about two, 

 ovate, distant, lower one on a short peduncle ; fruit ovate, 

 triquetrous, nerved, crowded, somewhat inflated, smooth, 

 short-rostrate, with mouth entire; pistillate scale ovate, acute, 

 tawny, a little shorter than the fruit ; colour of the plant, a 

 light green. 



Flowers in June ; grows on the edge of ponds, with C. 

 aquatilis, at the base of the White Mountains, N. H. — 

 found by Wm. Oakes, Esq., in honor of whom it is named. 

 It has a remote resemblance to C. Elliotii — but differs in 

 various characters. It seems to be clearly a new species. 



Of the following species already described, the research- 

 es of our botanists afford us additional knowledge. 



C. Wormskoldiana, Hornem. 

 Vol. XI. p. 154. Tab. R. fig. 56. 



Dioica unispicata simplici interdum bracteata planifoliata ; 

 spica fructifera dis-et-tris-stigmatica oblonga acuta dense 

 imbricato-cylindracea ; fructibus ovatis et subobovatis bre- 

 vi-rostratis pubescentibus vel pilosis, squamam ovatam acu- 

 tam subaquantibus. 



Culm 4-8 inches high, nearly round, smooth, scabrous 

 above, sheathed towards the base, sometimes with a seta- 

 ceous bract a little below the spike ; leaves flat, smooth, 

 lanceolate, nearly as long as the culm ; spike cylindric, an 

 inch long, closely imbricate, acute, brown ; stigmas often 

 three, sometimes appear to be only two on the same spike ; 

 fruit ovate, and somewhat obovate, obtuse, rostrate, pubes- 

 cent or pilose ; pistillate scales ovate, acute, dark brown, 

 green on the keel, rather longer than the fruit ; staminate 

 scale ovate-lanceolate, tawny, whitish on the edge ; colour of 

 the plant yellowish green. 



Flowers in June ; found by Wm. Oakes, Esq., on the 

 Alpine parts of the White Mountains, N. H. for the first 

 time (1827) in New England. 



