ininatis Compressis subbifidis margine scabris divergentibus 
et reflexis, squama ovata obtusiuscula paulo longioribus. 
4—14 inches high, triquetrous, rather slender, leafy 
—— the base ; leaves linear, shorter or even longer than 
e culm, rough on the edge ; spikelets three to five, ovate 
pontee the highest, which is elongated by the staminate flow- 
ers decurrent at the base, somewhat approximate, lower 
often more remote and supported by a long linear bract sca- 
brous 5 stigmas two; fruit ovate, somewhat ota: at the 
base, short-acuminate, scabrous on the mar, 0-con- 
vex, nearly entire or slightly bifid, iosaadiedi reflexed in 
maturity ; pistillate scale ovate, tawny, whitish on the mar- 
gin, a little shorter than the fruit. Colour of the plant yel- 
lowish green. 
Flowers in May—grows in marshy situations in meadows 
and pastures and Pippa woods—common in our c as 
well as in Euro 
This species was considered by the English ‘botigtiers as 
the C. muricata, L., until the acquisition of the Herbarium 
of Linneeus showed their mistake. Under this name it was 
described by many. Indeed, Wahl. considers this plant to 
be C. muricata, L. in Flor. Sie though it is not the plant 
described afterwards by Linnzeus under this name, _— 
has the staminate flowers above the pistillate. The re 
blance of C. seirpoides to C. steliulata led Muh. to ax 
whether it is sufficiently distinct from it. In C. stellulata 
all the spikelets are androgynous ; in C. scirpoides, the upper 
spikelet is androgynous, while the others are entirely pistil- 
late, or have few staminate florets, —the pisti tillate scale too 
is more lanceolate, and more obtuse in proportion. Still it 
is certain that the varieties of C. —_——— C: sterilis, and 
C. scirpoidea, are extremely near each othe 
115. C. muricata. L. 
Pursh, Eaton, Pers. no. 57. Wahl. no. 28. 
d fig. 
pica composita androgyna ; ode subsenis superne 
s ovatis sessilibus a roximatis, seepe inferioribus 
staminiferi pp a : 
acuminatis convexo-planis diverg 
bris, i ama ovata’ duplo longioribus vel ovato-lanceolatze 
zequalibu 
