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and more from the pistillate, erect and slender, covered with long 

 broad lanceolate scales ; pistillate spikes 1-3, commonly 2, often 

 1, very rarely 3, cylindric, oblong, erect, the lowest sometimes 

 short and ovate and long exsert-pedunculate, bracteate and 

 sheathed, sub-close-fruited ; stigmas 3 ; fruit ovate, inflated, conic- 

 tapering into a 3-sided beak, which is rather deep bifurcate and 

 sub-scabrous on the edges, nerved and smooth, more than twice 

 longer than the ovate acute or awned scale ; plants yellowish. 



Small ponds at Seymour, Northumberland Co., Canada West, 

 J. Macoun. I have seen nothing like it in the specimens obtained 

 by me. It has been referred to C. lupuUna, but the achenia 

 much differ, as well as the spikes and fruit. 



C. Bella-villa, Dewey : Spicis staminiferis 2-3, fere 3, 

 cylindraceis erectis vulgo approximatis sub-remotis, terminali 

 longiore et omnibus bracteatis sessilibus longo-squamiferis ; pistil- 

 liferis vulgo 2, interdum 1, cylindraceis erectis exserti-pedunculatis 

 brevi- et lato-vaginatis per-laxifloris suprema apice staminifera ; 

 fructibus tristigmaticis longis gracilibus ovato-lanceolatis conicis 

 basin inflatis nervosis laevibus per-divergentibus rectangule positis 

 vel sub-retorsis rostro longi-bifurcato subtriquetro longo-stipitatis, 

 squamam longam lanceolatam dorso viridem infra subaequantibus 

 supra prasstantibus bracteis foliisque margine scabris culmum 

 foliatum superantibus. Achenium est triquetrum infra teres 

 supra brevi-rotundum triquetrum. 



Culm about 1^ foot high, erect, strong, leafy toward the base, 

 rough a little on the upper part ; bract-leaves rise from short 

 broad sheaths, and with the leaves surpass the culm ; staminate 

 spikes 2-3, commonly 3, cylindric, erect, near or sub-remote, the 

 terminal often longer, all sessile and bearing long lanceolate scales, 

 rough to the eye but soft to the touch ; pistillate spikes commonly 

 2 and rarely 1, cylindric, exsert-pedunculate, erect, very loose- 

 flowered, short and broad sheathed, the highest staminate at the 

 apex and nearly sessile, the lowest sub-remote ; stigmas 3 : fruit 

 long, slender, ovate-lanceolate, conic, nerved, smooth, diverging 

 and horizontal or sometimes retrorse, stipitate, with a back deeply 

 bifid or bifurcate, quite equalling the scale at the base and 

 exceeding the scale at the upper part of the spike. Plant yellowish. 



Near Belleville, Canada West, J. Macoun : a fine species. 



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