Culm 2-4 inches high, erect, slender, stiff and small, 3-sided, 
cespitose, leafy; leaves flat, narrow, nerved or striate, subseta- 
ceous, rising towards the root, scabrous, sheathing, and much 
longer than the culm; spike single, short, linear, staminate 
above ; stigmas three; fruit lanceolate, subscabrous; scale broad, 
ovate-lanceolate, submembranaceous on the edge and rather longer 
than the fruit; plant is light green, and has a stinted appearance. 
Rocky Mountains, Drummond, and named and described by 
Dr. Boott like the preceding. 
No. 186. C. marcida, Boott. 'Tab. Ee, fig. 108. 
Spica composita oblonga densa basi bracteata; spiculis ovatis 
distigmalicis superne staminiferis stricte aggregatis; fructibus 
late ovatis lanceolatis supra convexis ore diviso cilio-serratis, 
squamam ovatam acutam subaquantibus. 
Culm about two feet high, erect, stiff, triquetrous, rough on the 
upper part and leafy below ; leaves lanceolate, flat, often involute 
on the edges, nerved, shorter than the culm; spike oblong, com- 
pounded of many small and ovate spikelets closely aggregated, 
and chiefly staminate towards the summit; stigmas two; fruit 
roundish-ovate, lanceolate, chiefly at the lower part of the spike- 
lets; scale ovate acute, hyaline on the edges, about equal to the 
fruit ; pale green. 
Columbia River, Scouler, and named and described by Dr. 
Boott in Hooker’s work with the two preceding. 
No, 187. C. Torreyi, Tuckermani Enum. ‘ab. Ee, fig. 109. 
Spicis distinctis ; spica staminifera unica oblonga brevi-pedun= 
culata; pistilliferis subbiuis ¢ristigmaticis brevi-oblongis sub- 
sessilibus pedunculatis erectis; fructibus obovatis glabris sub- 
triquetris ore integro subrostratis perobtusis densifloris nervosis, 
squama acuta vix duplo longioribus. 
Culm 12-18 inches high, erect, triquetrous, and with the sub- 
radical leaves pubescent ; one oblong linear staminate spike with 
an oblong submucronate scale; pistillate spikes 2-3, oblong, 
nearly sessile, with leafy bracts; stigmas two; fruit oblong, ob- 
ovate, tapering towards the base, dense; pistillate scale ovate, 
acute or submucronate, about half as long as the fruit; plant 
light green, and, the fruit excepted, pubescent. 
Found near Carlton House, Richardson. Resembles C. palles- 
cens, L. very much, but seems to be sufficiently removed from it, 
Mr. Tuckerman refers its locality also to the state of New York. 
