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yelleih towards maturity, compressed, sub-convex ewe: 
distinctly two-toothed, scabrous; pistillate scale oe 
ae or shortly awned, yellowish green, and about bal f the 
length of the fruit. 
hough the fig. of this species in Schk. is excellent, the 
plant is not easily distinguished from its related species by 
the common descriptions merely, because the pistillate is 
not described with sufficient particularity. It varies much 
too, in its lower spikelets. “Instead of single spikelets, we 
often find several spikelets on a branch, which occupies the 
ices of the lower ones, and becomes: their common ra- 
ch 
“Grows in moist soil; flowers in the latter part of a 
veryabundant. ‘ 
mascu ulis: su sub-approximatis 
7 racteata 3 — Teoebor ovatis obtusis nervosis 
; Jabris, squama vis aemts. Ee elpaucroniaie 
‘lm ri 12 inehes high, sleh dee ala; ~seabrous 
above, leafy towards the base ; lead ieee narrow, chan- 
nelled, shorter than the culm, subradical with short sheaths, 
lower ones abbreviated; spikelets 2—-4, generally 3, rath- F 
er near, two-fruited, with a staminate floret between i «4 
above them, pretty erect, the lowest, and sometimes the 
two lower, supported by an ovate bract, often endi 
wee i scabro s leafet; staminate scale lanc 
ovate or oblo ong, nerved, obtuse, searcel} 
, Wi rown kee! 
it. Beene a ae bas only one 
inate flow a a little > eet 
. related to his C. gra 
bis G. “DSc a series: of ey ‘same, both o 
3 e below; it has not. been: described by 
Oe 
anist tof our count ' 
