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sessile, lower enclosed or exsertly pedunculate, bracteate with a 

 narrow and longer foliate sheath ; stigmas three ; fruit ovate or 

 ovate-conic-elliptic, sometimes obovate-triquetrous, tapering below, 

 stiped, short-rostrate and the beak often turned one side or 

 refracted, two-toothed, smooth, near twice longer or rarely little 

 longer than the ovate or oblong obtuse or sub-acute scale. 



Discovered in a marsh in Bergen, twenty miles west of Rochester, 

 by Rev. J. A. Paine ; the first known locality in the United 

 States; fruit mature in June, 1865. On some of the Bergen 

 specimens, the refraction of the culm below the staminate spike 

 and of the beak of the fruit, especially of the early mature plants, 

 is striking. Both of these curious particulars are found on many 

 of the European specimens. The former is given in the descrip- 

 tion of Kunze and Steudel as a common fact, and in some popular 

 remarks of Fries ; and the latter is alluded to, with the other, as 

 of no consequence, by Andersson in his Cyperaceaa Scandinaviae ; 

 while Lang states of the former that he had examined it on the 

 C. vaginata cultivated in a botanic garden, but had never found 

 it on one of the numerous specimens he had collected, or growing 

 in their indigenous state. Of course Dr. Lang did not introduce 

 the refraction of the stem into his description of this species. 



The height of C. vaginata (5 to 12 inches by Steudel), the 

 greater width of the leaves (foliis latis, Lang) ; the short cuspid- 

 like leaf or termination of the broad sheath in Andersson, so clear 

 on the specimens from Europe and on the figures of Kunze and 

 Andersson, the more thick and coarse leaves and more stocky 

 form, as well as differences in the fruit, distinguish the Bergen 

 plant from the European. 



C. Macounii, Dewey : Spicis variis ordinatis distinctis vel 

 inordinatis cylindraceis erectis bracteatis ; ordinatorum stamini- 

 feris 2, inferiore breviore longo-bracteata, terminali longiore, 

 squamas longas graciles lanceolatas infra sparsas ferentibus ; et 

 pistilliferis 4, suprema subsessili, caeteris remotis longo-pecluncu- 

 latis : ordinatorum terminali staminifera longa et fructifera pistillis 

 paucis supra vel medio vel infra interpositis, vel interdum terminali 

 apicem pistillifera et dimidio inferiore fructifera, tunc terminali 

 pistillifera longa et in medio vel basi pauco-staminifera ; spicis 

 pistilliferis subquinis cylindraceis erectis laxifloris, inferioribus 

 longa exserto pedunculatis, infirma apice vel medio raro stamini- 

 fera : fructibus tristigmaticis ovatis longo-conico-subinflatis laavibus 

 nervosis brevi-furcatis substipitatis longo-gracili-rostratis divergen- 



