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stato-acuminatis subearinato-planis tenuiter striatis margini- 
bus subtiliss. serratis, interioribus brevioribus subsetaceis; 
“spiculis (raro binis) magnis cylindraceis utringue parum 
attenuatis obtusis densifloris, bractea setacea brevi colorata 
basi vaginante praeditis, in antbesi 1—1/, poll. long. 2— 
2'/, lin. lat.; squamis membranaceis leviter convexis oBlon- 
90 - obovatis uninerviis, margine eiliolatis, lateribus purpu- 
reis v. brunnescentibus, dorso angusto margineque hya- 
lino pallidioribus, maseulis breviter Zunceolato - angustatis 
acutis, foemineis cuspidatis, euspide scabrido; filamentis 3 
longe exsertis subtilibus pallidis, antheris perlongis lineari- 
bus angustis; stigmatibus 3 elongatis capillaribus fexuo- 
sis pallidis fimbriato -hirtellis. — — — — „Perigyniis 
triquetro - obovatis erostratis obtusis v. abrupte rostellatis 
rectis, ore bidentato ciliato, stipitatis nervatis pubescenti- 
bus pallidissuperne purpureo tinetis, marginibus ciliato-den- 
tatis, squama angustioribus brevioribusque.‘“ Boott. — — 
Species perinsignis C. Baltzellii Chapm. affınior. — (Exst. 
exempla florigera.) 
C. Boottiana Benth. — Boott 1. c. 16. t. 44. — Chap- 
man Fl. of the S. U. Stat. 536. — C. pieta Steud. Syn. 184. 
Amer. septentr., Louisiana (Drummond). 
B. Spiculae androgynae, apice masculae. 
a. Stigmata duo (in C. polytrichoidi, C. monostachya 
et ©. aciculari nonnungquam tria). 
8 cC. palicaris L. 
Caespitosa; rhizomate brevissimo v. parum elongato 
pertenui descendente brunneo v. luteo, fibrillis capillari- 
bus; culmis strictis setaceis 12—2 p 1. alt. teretiuseulis 
v. obsolete angulatis striatis v. striato-sulcatis Iaevibus 
basi plurifoliatis; foliis eonfertis patentibus culmo tardius 
brevioribus (1Y/y,—7-pollie.) leviter flexuosis sefaceis cana- 
