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Caricography. 165 
Culm nearly two feet high, triquetrous, glabrous ; leaves 
broad, lanceolate, longer than the culm, rough (Muh.) scarce- 
ly scabrous on the edges (Ell.) bracts very long, leafy, gla- 
brous ; staminate spike single (Ell.) one or more (Muh.) 
three (Rudge) with ovate and acute, or lanceolate and acu- 
minate, scales; pistillate spikes about three, cylindric, large, 
somewhat loose flowered, distant, sometimes staminate above 
(Ell.) highest sessile, lower exsertly pedunculate, erect or lax ; 
stigmas three ; fruit globular-ovate, long-rostrate, conic, infla- 
ted, nerved, two cleft, glabrous; pistillate scale ovate an 
acute or oblong-lanceolate, sometimes nerved, white on the 
edge, about half as long as the frnit. 
Flowers in April and May—grows in marsb-like places S. 
Carolina—Rudge, Muh. and Ell. 
This plant has not been found in the Northern States. 
Described as it is by Muh. and Ell. who were familiar with 
it, and with C. lacustris, which it resembles, there seems to 
be little reason for believing the correctness of Pursh in ma- 
King it a variety of the latter. It appears to be a distinct 
species between C. lupulina and C. lacustris. 
108. C. lupulina. Muh. 
Muh. Pursh, Eaton, Pers. no. 117. 
. no. 30. Schw and Torrey no. 70. 
Schk. tab. Ddd fig. 123 and lili fig. 194 
C. lurida, Wahl. no. 75. 
Spica staminifera solitaria erecta gracili subsessili 3 Spicis 
longo et conico-rostratis bicuspi 
ma ovato-lanceolata acuminata subtriplo longioribus. 
Culm 2—3 feet high, triquetrous, leafy along its length, 
subscabrous above ; leaves lanceolate, rather broad, striate, 
flat, scabrous on the edge, longer than the culm, with striate 
sheaths ; bracts leafy, large, much surpassing the culm, with 
short sheaths above ; staminate spike single, sometimes two 
(Muh ) Jong, triquetrous, sessile or nearly sessile, very slen- 
der in proportion to the pistillate spikes, with lanceolate 
scales long-acute and scabrous on the point, whitish on the 
edge, sometimes distinctly three nerved ; pistillate spikes, 
three or four, an inch to two inches long, ovate-oblong, very 
