4lS^ North American Cypctacea. 
126. C, FLAVA, Linn.; Michx.I fl. 2. 171; Schkuhr, 
car. f. 36. 
Hab. Canada ! and Xorthern States ! west to Arkansas. 
127. C. Elliottii, Schw. ^^ Torr. ! car. I. c. p. 357. 
C. fulva ? Muhl.! gram. p. 246, not of Goodenough. 
C. castanea, Elliott, sk. 2. p. 54.6, not of IVaJilenherg. 
C. lonchocarpa, Spreng. syst. 3. p. S17, (fide Dewey). 
C. Baldwinia, Deicey ! car. I. c. 26. p. 107, t. T. f. 61. 
Hab. North Carolina, I^lr. Croom ! and Mr. Cur/is! 
Georgia, Elliott; Florida, Dr. Baldicin! — We are confident 
that we have at length setded the synonomy of this species, 
which one or tv\o mistakes had involved in almost inextricable 
confusion. The description in Dewey's Caricography cor- 
responds in a good degree with the true plant, being chiefly 
derived from that of Elliott and of Muhlenberg ; but his figure 
represents a different plant, which agrees neither widi Elliott's 
description nor with his own. Prof. Dewey does not state 
from whence his specimen was obtained ; we suspect it to be 
C. oligosjjcrma, since we have a specimen of that plant which 
Prof. Dewey has named C. Elliottii. On the other hand, our 
plant agrees minutely with the description of Elliott, who states 
his plant to be the C. fulva of Muhlenberg ; and, to make 
assurance doubly sure, we find a specimen from Elliott himself 
with the C. fulva in Muhlenberg's herbarium. Elliott, per- 
ceiving that the plant was not the C. fulva of Europe, changed 
the name to C. castanea, which unfortunately had been pre- 
viously applied to a diflerent species, and the name of its 
estimable discoverer was therefore given, it appears, both in 
the monograph of North American Carices, and by Prof. 
Dewey. The latter being somehow misled by the specimen 
figured in his Caricography, afterwards dedicated the real C. 
Elliottii to Dr. Baldwin. The distant and long pedunculate 
fertile spike seems to be only of occasional occurrence, since 
it is not observed in the eight specimens now before us. 
