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fruit ovate oblong, ventricose, obtuse, somewhat 

 shining, longer than the ovate cuspidate glume. 

 HAB. Woods and meadows. May. Culm 12 — 

 18 in. high ; fr. inflated when mature. 



66. C . granularis : sterile sessile or short-pedunculate; 



fertile mostly 3, remote, cylindrical, dense ; up- 

 permost subsessile, lowest on a long peduncle ; 

 fruit globose-ovate, nerved, orifice entire ; ros- 

 trum very short and recurved. 

 HAB. Wet meadows. May. Culm 12 in. high; 

 Icav. subglauc. ; spikes cylind., thick. 



67. C. sylvatica : fertile spikes mostly 4, remote, fili- 



form, dense, peduncles nodding ; fruit ovate, ros- 

 trate, bifid, twice as long as the ovate mucronate 

 glume. 



HAB. Woods. May. Culm 12—18 in. high ; 

 spik. lh in. long ; plant pale gr. 

 63. C.Jlexuosa; fertile spikes 4, remote, filiform, on 

 nodding peduncles ; fruit distant, alternate, oblong, 

 acute at each end, rostrate, bifid, twice as long as 

 the ovate-mucronate glume. 



HAB. Meadows. June. Culm 18 — 24 in. high, 

 spik. 2 in. long ; rach.Jlex. 



§ § § Pistilliferous spikes on long peduncles t nearly des- 

 titute of sheaths. 



69. C. umbellata : cespitose ; fertile spikes mostly 4, 



ovate, few-flowered, one sessile at the summit of 

 the culm, the rest on radical peduncles and appear- 

 ing subumbellate; fruit ovate, acuminate-rostrate, 

 subpubescent, as long as the ovate acuminate 

 glume. 

 HAB. Rocky hills. April. Culm 1—6 in. high; 

 leav. long ; spik. 3 — 5, 6 — ti-Jl. 



70. C. miliacca : fertile spikes 3, slender and cylin- 

 drical, nodding, slender and filiform ; fruit ovate, 

 triangular, without nerve?, slightly ro-trate, ori- 

 fice entire, as long as the ovate-lanceolate glume. 



HAB. Moist meadows. Culm 12—15 in. high ; 

 spik. subapprox., 1 — 2 in. long, gr. 



71. C. pallescens : fertile spikes 2 — 3, ovate-cylindri- 

 cal, dense, at length somewhat nodding ; fruit ob- 

 ovate-oblong, obtuse; sheaths and culm pubes 

 cent. 



