408 North American Cypcracca. 
81. C. HiRSUTA, Willd. sp. 4. p. 252 ; Sclikuhr, car. f. 
172; Schiv. 4' Torr.! cor. I. c. p. 322. 
C. trLceps, Michx. ! fl. 2. p. 170 ; Elliolt, sk. 2. p. 538 1 
C. viridula, Schiv. Sf Torr.! car. I. c. p. 320. (excl. syn. Michx.) 
(3. pedunculata, Sclav. ^ Torr. ! I. c. 
Hab. Canada to Florida ! /3. near Philipstown, New 
York, Dr. Barratt ! 
82. Carex coMPLAXATA, Torr. ^ HooJx. 
Spikes 3 — 4, sessile, approximated towards the summit of 
the cidm, thick, oblong, the terminal one staminate below ; 
fruit lenticular, obtuse, smooth, with an entire orifice, about 
the length of the broadly ovate, radier acute scale. 
Cvlm about 18 inches high, very slender, triquetrous, with the angles 
scabrous and very acute. Leaves narrow, channelled. Spikes 6 — 8 
lines long, and 3 lines in diameter, greenish ; the terminal one largest, 
somewhat obovate, flowers crowded. Fruit broadly oblong, much com- 
pressed, not striate; orifice minute, entire. Stigmas X Scales as broad 
as the fruit, and somewhat CKceeding it in length in the lower part of the 
spike. 
Hab. Texas, T. Drummond-' (Texan collection III. no. 
424.) — This species has at first sight the appearance of C. 
virescens. 
83. C. VIRESCENS, Miihl. i?i Willd. sp. 4. p. 251 ; Sc/Jaikr, 
car. f. 147 ; Sckw. Sf Torr.! car. I. c. 321. & (3. costata, /. c. 
Hab. Canada ? to North Carolina ! 
84. C. GRACiLLiMA, Scliic. ! anal. tab. I. c. ; Dewey ! car. 
I. c. 8. p. 98. 
C. digitalis, Schw. Sf Torr. ! car. I. c. p. 324. t. 26. f. 1, not of Muhl. 
Hab. Sub- Arctic America to Kentucky ! 
