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Stem one to two feet high, triquetrous, glabrous. Leaves longer than the 

 stem, strap-shaped, slightly channelled, scarcely scabrous along the margins 

 Sheathing at base. Male spike terminal, scales ovate, acute. Female spikes 

 three, sometimes with a few male florets at the summit of each, distant, half 

 or more of the long peduncle inclosed. Corolla ovate, acute, nerved, two- 

 Cleft at the mouth, twice as long as the ovate, very acute scale, somewhat 

 inflated when mature. Stigmas three. Seed triquetrous. 



Grows in bogs and swampsj very common. 



Flowers April — May. 



33. FOLLICULATA. 



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C. spicis foemineis I Fertile spikes gene- 

 sub quaternis, ereetis, rally 4, erect, pedun- 

 exerte peduneulatis, culate, few floweredj ' 

 paucifloris; fructibus fruit ovate, ventricose, 

 ovatis, ventricosis, ner nerved, beaked, longer 



vosis, rostratis, squa 



ma ovata lonffioribus. 



E. 



than the ovate scale. 



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Sp. pL 4. p. 281. Mich, 2. p. 171. Pursh, 1. p. 42. NutL 2. p. 205. 



margins 



summit, scabrous. Leaves longer than the stem, strap-.„„p.u, o^au. uus. 

 Slightly channelled, with short sheaths at base. Male spike solitary, termi- 

 nal, scales lanceolate, acute. Female spikes two to four, rarely soli- 

 tary, erec^ on short exserted peduncles, the lower one, when there are four, 

 renaote. Florets six to twenty, expanding horizontally. Corolla ovate, 

 rostrate, slightly two-cleft at the mouth, nerved, conspicuously inflated, lon- 

 ger than the narrow, ovate, slightly acuminate scale. Stiffmas three. Seed 



triquetrous. 



A few male florets generally occur at the summit of each fertile spike, 

 wows in swamps. • 



Flowers April — Maj. 



. *** Spicis foemine' j *** Fertile spikes 



^^ pedunculatis, \ on peduncles, 



^. Plantagiivea. 



C. spicis peduncula- j Spikes pedunculate, 

 "s, foemineis quaternis fertile four^ distant: 



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