This species is considered by Wahl: and Pers. as only a 
variety of C. frigida, Allion., the C. spadicea, Schk. tab. L. 
fig. 47 a. and b. The difference-i in the situation of the sta- 
minate eo and in the shape of the fruit seems to justify 
95. -C. —— Be a 
Schw. and Torrey 
Spicis subternis ebistiemsetiods S odalibits s pedunetlatis oa 
dulis alternis vel raro subumbellatis, terminalia: 
rne vel rarius omnino staminifera $ fructibus laficeolatis 
acuminatis bidentatis apice e dentieula atis, squama evali obtu- 
siuscula longioribus. 
Culm about half shel highs leaves linear, attenuated 
above, scabrous on the margin ; spikes three or four, oval or 
oblong, pendulous, the highest generally pistillate above ; 
stigmas three, Sometimes two 3 fruit lanceolate, bidentate, 
nearly black, white at the orifies, smooth except the higher 
art of the margin, longer than - oval and rather obtuse 
scale smooth and dark brown. 
Found on Bejville anion Bieta: See dipp: Baaty's 
ist Voyage. 
96. C. viridula. Mx. 
Mx. Fl. IL p. 170. 
Schw. and a no. 45. 
C. trie Ell. n 
= “Spiel tristigmaticis subternis ‘approximatis elliptic, soddibe 
anillaribue ‘fructibus ovatis triquetris _glabris eatin, 
squamam ovato-acuminatam subzequantibus. = 
ulm about a foot high, erect, slender, triquetrows, sca- 
brous orn purplish below ; leaves linear, erect, Jightly 
sca on the edge, little longer than the culm, pubescent 
below ; spikes three or four, approxiinate, sessile, 
one staminate below, a little remote ; stigmas three; fruit 
ovate, a ede compressed, prominently nerved, subtrique- 
trous, pubescent when young ?—pistillate scale ovate and 
acuminate, about as long as or a longer than the ma- 
ture fruit. 
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