98 Caricography. 
Cc. eepneie: Flowers in re and donb aaarrs in moist 
meadows. Stigmas, 2. 
om C, scoparia, this pendes is clearly distinet: It 
much resembles C. festucacea, but differs in the number, 
position, form and colour of the spikelets. Though about as 
tall a plant as C. festucacea, it is much smaller in all its 
parts, and its fruit is much less diverging: ; It belongs in the 
same division in Ph. and Eaton with the preceeding species. 
- C. formosa. (Mihi) 
A Shicis phlobcis¢ crassis secundis quaternis distantibus ex- 
serte pedunculatis nutatibus, suprema inferne mascula ; 
fruct 5s oblongis triquetris subinflatis utrinque acutius- 
culis ong. subintegro vel bilobo, squama ovata acuta duplo 
majo 
Gite i 12--18 inches high, triangular, leafy; leaves sheath- 
ing, shorter below, linear-lanceolate, dark brown at. me 
root, and shorter than the culm; spikes four age! i 
somewhat 3-sided, on slender ‘long recurved cle 
which are longer than the sheaths ; bracts long, oe 
sheaths less than half the length of the peduncles ; ~— 
and sheaths pubescent or slightly pilose ; fruit distinctly 
3-sided, somewhat acute at both ends, inflated in the mid- 
dle, glabrous, yellowish, nerved, close-set, with an open, 
nearly entire or slightly two-lobed orifice ; ; stigmas three ; 
staminate scale oblong obtusish ; pistillate scale ovate, 
acute or slightly awned, white on the edges and green on 
the keel, about half the length of the fruit. The colour of 
the plant i is yellowish green. Flowers in May—found at 
Stockbridge in wet upland meadows, and growing in great 
abundance with C. flava 
his species is alosely allied to C. miclichofert, Schk. 
tab. Mmm. fig. 198. It differs, however, in the androgy- 
nous and upper Seollcts spike, and its fruit is not ~— 
pid, is more acute, and has a more entire orifice. It 
nearer resemblance to the following species named by the 
v. L. D. de sesnitara > his description however I have 
hot seen. 
. C. gracillima. Schw 
Spicis longis cnn distantibus tule lngstione quaternis 
ibu us 
exserte iy =a hog Ta tian ge inferne mascula, omni 
bracteatis; fructib on 
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