ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE GENUS CAREX. 
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Mag. t. 1391 (1811); Kunth , Cyp. 423; Steudel, 185. 
Mapania sylvatica, Pursh, i. 47. C. lagopus, Multi. 
265. (Tab. CCCCLXXXXIY.) 
Hab. In America boreali.—In montibus Carolina 
sept., Fraser, etc. In Virginia?, Kin. Tennessee, Gray. 
Culmus 8-12-pollicaris, compressus, glaber, nudus, basi 
rudimentis foliornm involventibus turgidis clausus. Folia 
12-16 lin. lata, 1-1^-pedalia, striato-nervosa, coi’iacea, viridia, 
marginibus pallidis, cartilagineis, undulatis. Spica 8-12 lin. 
longa, 3-5 lin. lata, nivea demum fusca; florifera apice e 
filamentis longis quasi comosa, nuda. Squamae albse vel 
lactese, conformes, concolores; masculse plures, imbricatse; 
feminese latiores obtusse vel acutse. Perigynium 2y%—lin. 
longum, lineam latum. Achenium maturum 1-A lin. longum, 
lineam latum, basi crasse stipitatum, ovale, acute triquetrum, 
faciebus concaviusculis, atro-purpureum, lucidum. Racheola 
saepe adest oblonga, achenio juvenile brevior vel longa, et 
altera ? lata rotundata eo brevior. In speciminibus ex mon¬ 
tibus Carolinae, aeque ex liorto, perigynium duplex vidi; apex 
rostri interioris paulo ab ore exterioris exsertus; unum horum 
speciminum stigmatibus 4 praeditum. In alio specimine (ex 
horto), perigynium axem (squamam et anther as ferentem). ab 
ore proferens, vidi; antherae albse; filamenta aurantiaca, de¬ 
mum fusca longa. 
This remarkable plant was first figured and described in An¬ 
drews’s ‘ Botanist’s Repository.’ In the ‘ Botanical Magazine’ that 
figure is referred to, and I have therefore adopted the name of G. 
Fraseri, as the first given. Fraser discovered the plant in 1808, 
on the banks of the Catawba, near Morgan Town, and on Table 
Mountain, North Carolina, though Dr. Gray remarks that Mr. 
Curtis has since ineffectually sought for it there. It was only 
known as a garden plant before Mr. Kin met with it, as Dr. Gray 
supposes, in Taggart’s Valley, in Virginia. These specimens 
Pursh saw, and referred them to Mapania. In 1841, Dr. Gray 
and Mr. Carey found it on the Grandfather Mountain, North 
Carolina; and Mr. Curtis and Mr. Buckley have since found it in 
the same state. Dr. Gray also discovered it on the Little Doe 
River, near the Roan Mountain, in Tennessee. 
At f. a the double perigynium, and at f. e the achenium with 
four stigmas, are shown. The specimens I have seen are (ex¬ 
cept occasionally in the cultivated plant) too young for mature 
achenia. In the tendency to produce racheolse it is like many of 
the PsyHopJiorae. The broad one (perhaps the rudiment of a 
second perigynium) was too much injured in dissection to admit 
of being accurately drawn. 
I have only seen lately one mature achenium within a broken 
perigynium, the measure of which I have given above. From its 
size, I should infer that the membranous perigynium would assume 
the triquetrous form. 
350. C. Sellowiana (Schleehtendal) ; spica oblonga 
simplici apice mascula e viridi ferruginea; stigmatibus 
3; perigyniis suborbiculato-ovalibus stipitatis rostratis, 
ore integro, marginibus alatis scabris membranaceis, gra- 
nulatis ferrugineis, squama ovato-lanceolata ampla obtu- 
siuscula plus minus longe aristata medio viridi striato- 
nervosa, marginibus membranaceis ferrugineis latioribus 
brevioribus.—C. Sellowiana, Schlecht. Linncea, x. 117; 
Kunth, 427 ; Steudel, 186. Uncinia Sellowiana, Nees, 
Cyp. Brasil. 205, sec. Stead. (Tab. CCCCLXXXV.) 
Hab. In Brasilia meridionali, Sellow; St. Hilaire 
{Herb. Mus. Par.). 
Csespitosa. Culmus 4—8-pollicaris, debilis, triqueter, apice 
paulo ampliatus, angulis acutis scabris, basi foliatus rudi- 
mentisque foliorum fusco-ferrugineis tectus. Folia 1-2 lin. 
lata, culmo ssepe duplo longiora, plana, flaccida. Spica 6-9 
lin. longa, 2-3 lin. lata. Squamce ferrugineo-punctata;; fe¬ 
minese inferiores plus minus longe aristatse, infima nunc spi- 
cam superans; masculse inferiores aristata;, superiores acutse 
vel mucronatse. Perigynium (immaturum ) 3 x 2 -o lin. longum, 
2 lin. latum, lineolis ferrugineis obsitnm, marginibus plus 
minus late alatis, erosis, serrulatis. Achenium l T f, ' 0 - lin. 
longum, Ao~ bn- latum, acute triquetrum, basi styli crassiore. 
I have not seen any mature specimens of this species; and the 
perigynium, which no doubt in the mature state is more or less 
triquetrous, as described by Schleehtendal, is compressed, with 
indexed sides. The specimens figured are from the Berlin Her¬ 
barium in Herb. Hooker, collected by Sellow. I have others, in 
a flowering state, from Brazil, gathered by St. Hilaire, winch I 
owe to M. Spach. In the only perigynium I opened, I observed 
no racheola, though I infer such occasionally exists, from Nees 
referring the plant to Uncinia. I have not seen his description 
of it. 
351. C. inversa (Braun); spica abbreviata pallida, e 
spiculis 2-3 rarius 1-5 obovatis vel ovalibus androgynis 
basi masculis congestis vel infima subremota involucratis ; 
bracteis 1-3 spicam longe superantibus ; stigmatibus 3 ; 
perigyniis ovalibus ellipticis ovatis vel suborbiculatis plus 
minus longe rostratis bifidis plano-convexis marginibus 
acutis vel alatis serrulatis nervatis pallidis spongiosis, 
squama ovata acuta cuspidata albida nervo viridi longio- 
ribus vel subaequantibus.—C. inversa. Brown, Prod. 
242; Kunth, 399 ; Hook. f. FI. N. Zeal. 281 ; Steud. 
198. (Tab. CCCCLXXXVI.-CCCCLXXXVIII.) 
Hab. Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand. — Port Jack- 
son, Br. : Sieber, n. 543. Swan River, Drummond. 
Wanduc Vale, Victoria, Robertson. Brisbane and Daw¬ 
son Rivers, Miiller. New England, Australia, Stuart. 
Tasmania, Gunn ; Archer. New Zealand, Ralph ; Co- 
lenso {Herb. Hooker). 
Var. a. major.—Culmus 15-pollicaris, validus, lsevis, basi 
foliatus. Folia 1-11 lin. lata, culmo breviora, plana, firma. 
Bractece 3, infima nunc 5 poll, longa. Spica 6-18 lin. longa, 
5-6 lin. lata. Spiculce 3-5, congestse, vel infima 5-9 lin. 
remota. Perigynium ovale suborbiculatum vel ovatum, mar¬ 
ginibus acutis serrulatis, utrinque valide nervatum, inter 
nervos transversim corrugatum, l x %—2 lin. longum, tV-1-tV 
lin. latum, rostro A A lin. longo. Achenium l-l T 3 o lin. 
longum, iV~ro bn. latum, plauo-convexum, basi styli incras- 
sata. 
Hab. Swan River, Wanduc Vale, Dawson River. 
Var. Perigynium ovale, sensim longe rostratum, marginibus 
alatis, erosis, serrulatis, 1 - 1 %- 2 -rs lin. longum, y% lin. latum, 
rostro 1 lin. longo. Achenium 1—1 yy lin. longum, lin. 
latum, ienticulare, basi styli sequali. 
Hab. Brisbane River. 
Var. ff. minor.—Culmus 2-9-pollicaris, gracilis. Folia an- 
gusta. Spica brevis. Spiculce 1-3, terminalis nunc pedun- 
culata, obliqua. Bractece 1-3, spicam longe superantes. 
Perigynium ovale ellipticum vel ovatum, plus minus longe 
rostratum, nervis tenuioribus, 1 A,-ytr bn. longum, yVVo bn. 
latum (nec corrugatum). Achenium A bn. longum, 
A,—t 0 lin. latum, Ienticulare, basi styli sequali. 
Hab. Port Jackson, Tasmania, New Zealand. 
From a careful examination of the specimens I have seen of this 
species, I do not feel inclined to separate the two extreme forms 
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