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98. C. Fraseri. — Sims. 
we no, 27. Schw. and re no. 4. 
agopus, Muh. no. 5 
akan unica androzyna _Superne samira cylindracea , 
to-clobosis ore integ- 
ris ‘striatis, squama oblonga toneibeibiy 
This peculiar species T have not had opportunity to exam- 
ine. According to Muhlenberg, the culm is a foot high, na- 
_ked, sheathed at the base, compressed above, with two radic- 
“aland broad-lanceolate leaves nerved, and longer than the 
culm; spike single cylindric, white, staminate above; stig- 
mas three ; fruit glabrous, striate, and subtriquetrous. Leaves 
ever green. 
Found on - mountains of N. Carolina—Fraser. Also, 
in Penn.— 
Note. rar species, some of whos = peculiarities only 
were given in Vol, VII. will here be fully described: 
C. plantuginea. Lam. 
Parsh, Mx. Eaton, Pers. no. 143: Rees’ Cyc. no. 135. 
Ell. no. 34. Schw. and Torrey no. 76. 
eC; Sanefoiies Goert. secund. Wahl. no. 94. 
Schk. tab. U. fig. 70. Rees Cye. no. 
Spica staminifera solitaria erecta pedunculata ; spicis 
——— tristigmaticis subquaternis oblongis subsparsifloris 
rectis remotis exserte pedunculatis fructibus oblongis trique- 
tro-ellipticls subcuneiformibus utrinque attenuatis apice ex- 
curvis ore integris, squama ovato-cuspidata longo “ 
foliis meen ensiformibus 
0—20 inches high, erect, triquetrous, smooth, with 
dark reddish b —= rown sheaths towards the a sheaths of the 
les coloured in part, terminating in 
subulate point or leafet ; leaves radical, hear, rather obtuse, 
through winter, shorter than the culm, often an inch in 
breadth, flat, commonly with three strong nerves or ribs 
purplish at at the base ; staminate spike single, erect, a 
late, oblong-cylindric, with dark reddish brown scales o 
and rather acute and narrowed towards the base with a 
tish midrib ; pistillate spikes three to five, erect, oblong, loose 
flowered, the two upper with nearly inclosed eel and 
the lower with rather long € exsert rt ) the low- 
est from towards the root ; sti three ; fruit ob blong, tri 
quetrous, 
gmas 
attenuated at both ends, appearing pedicillate, euk- 
