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nearly a two lower remote ahd the lowest especially on 
late scale ovate, acuminate, white on the edge, fie more 
than half the length of the fruit, _ of the plant rather 
glaucous green—in maturity yellowi 
Flowers in _ —grows in wet aes meadows and pas- 
tures—common 
This is a very distinct species—its culm resembles some 
varieties of C. anceps and also C. blanda ; but its spikes and 
fruit are quite difierent. The fruit is more like that of C. 
blanda, and the latter ‘may sometimes be confounded with it 
wishont Res attention. —It-is closely related to the Euro- 
. rotundata, Wahl C. globularis, Schk. 
‘ab. "Ge. f 8 ocean which however it ipakenels 3 distinete. 
C. straminea. Wahl. 
Muh. Pursh, aes 3 Pers. no. 73. 
Schw. and Torrey 
Schk. tab. Xxx. AA. 
pica composita ; spiculis / inferne staminifera 
distigmaticis subsenis ovatis oblongis alternis sessilibus sub- 
approximatis ; fructibus lato-ovatis sub-rotundis compressis 
alatis ciliato-serratis rostratis nervosis bidentatis, squama 
ovato-lanceolata paulo longioribus. 
Culm 20 inches high, triquetrous, scabrous above; 
leaves linear-lanceolate, shorter below and shorter than the 
culm, with striate sheaths tawny opposite the leaf ; spikelets 
3-8, usually any ovate, oblong, roundish in maturity, 
especially at the summit, staminate b 
sile, very rarely subpedunculate, with ovate cuspidate oe 
staminate scale lanceolate, somewhat tawny ; fruit, 
~ ovate, roundish, rostrate, nerved, winged on each side and of 
the bre painets the seed, two-toothed, ciliate-serrate, quite com- 
eae tillate scale ovate-lanceolate, ree | from about 
half to i the length of = fruit. Colour of icapeeapenns 
tawny,—of the plant ht gr 
«Flowers im ae in. fields along the borders of 
woods—sometimes on ledges of rocks, and its fruit is 
nt ls bod sad its scale sees meen but not abundant. 
