€aricography. 15t 
rather longer than the culm. stints deeply emarginate and 
mucronate scale is very pecu 
91. C. pete ae Torrey. 
Schw 
dunculata cernua ; fructibus ovatis nee jonas 
rous ; etalon aoe feet high, triquetrous, very slen- 
der, pws # at the base ; leaves linear, nerved, what. 
rough on the edge , shorter than the the culm ; staminate spike 
single, an inch lola rising from a bract 
and much longer, with an oblong and obtuse Seale tawn 
and white on the margin ; pistillate spikes three, sicnate 
roundish, 9—16 flowered, the highest two sessile and the 
upper one staminate above, the lowest on a very long nod- 
ding peduncle ; stigmas three ; fruit ovate, inflated, subtri- 
quetrous, nerved, glabrous, dotted, coriaceous, -  rostrate 
and two cleft, becoming — ; pistillate scale ovate, ob- 
tuse, not half as long as ee fru 
Flowers in April—grows in sae pine barrens, Chatham, 
Co. Georgia—Elliott. On my _— the long pedun- 
Muhlenberg doubted the identity of this plant with the C. | 
fulva ofeuapes and so remote is it from C. fulva as figur- 
cies,. 1 had, for an obvious reason, given it the n * 
before it was announced in the Monograph by Schw. and 
Torrey. Thi t seems nearly related also, to — —— 
