94 Caricography. 
it seems that the plants now called C. canescens on the con- 
tinent is the C. curta of Goodenough. The writer in Rees’ 
Cyc. considers the two as different species, and describes 
them under these two names, though he admits their great 
similarity and the great resemblance of Loesel’s fig of C. 
- curta to both. He points out no essential difference be- 
tween them, though he mentions their different general ap- 
pearance to the eye. e two plants found in this section 
of the country are said to agree with C. curta from differ- 
ent parts of Europe, and though their general appearance is 
upper spikelets appears pe age 
ference in the scales and fru is 
both varieties. The lighter col 
the popular descri 
the C. curtain Re . Yet all these authors, 
except Rees’ Cyc. consider - both plants to be 
one species. The description would be simplified by the — 
following character of one variety, viz. mature spikelets sil- 
very whate. 
3. C. scoparia. Schk. 
Mub. Pursh, Eaton and Pers, 
Schk. ee Axx. fig..175. 
C. leporina? Mx. 
Spiculis alternis ovis sessilibus superne foemineis quinis, 
infima bracteata, bractea decidua; capsula lanceolata nervo- 
sa peer erecta, ‘squama lanceolata acuminata longior. 
m 18—24 inches high, leafy, and scabrous above ; 
teabes fiobar narrow, shorter than the culm; spikelets 5—10, 
generally 5—7, approximate, sometimes very much aggre- 
gated into a club-form head, the lowest with a leafy bract 
sometimes longer than the culm and deciduous, and the 
three lower spikes often with short bracts also; fruit Jan- 
ceolate, slightly ovate at the base, about 9. nerved, mar- 
gined, scabrous on the upper half, and two toothed, slightly 
tawney and whitish on the edges, a little te than the 
ane es eipioste ote scale. Stigma 
n May—grows in moist and wet Si, and 
is readily distinguished in July by its tawney spikelets. 
From C. straminea, it differs materially in the shape of its 
fruit and the general appearance of the spikelets. 
