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oi4 Caricography- 
123. CC. collecta. Dewey. 
Ta fig. 44 
_N. fig. 44. 
Spica staminifera solitaria erecta laxe imbricatis gracils 
ern 
fructibus ovatis rostratis su aaa sub-pubeseentibus, 
squama ovata acuta paulo lengior 
—16 inches high, ase AS scabrous above, pro- 
cumbent in maturity, very slender, leaves linear, subradical, 
shorter below, upper also shorter than the culm, narrow, mi- 
nutely scabrous on the edge, soft, bracts linear, lower one 
about equalling the culm, staminate spike single, ereet, slen- 
der, nearly half an inch long, scales oblong, long-acute, 
whitish-yellow, white on the edge, green on the keel and sea- 
brous, loosely imbricate ; stigmas three ; pistillate spikes two 
o four, ovate, small, sessile, few dicgauenete bracteate, lower 
one pedunculate ; fruit ovate, rostrate, slightly bidentate, sub- 
pubescent, and ciliate serrate on the beak; pistillate scale 
ovate, rae large, light yellow, white on the edge, green 
and scabrous on the keel, shorter than the ea Color of 
the plant tight green. Seed ovate, triquetro 
Flowers in May—grows in small bogs on ihe border of a 
high sphagnous marsh, Worthington, Mass. with C. curta. 
Related to C. nove-anglia—but differs in the number of 
tigmas, ae in other characters. From C. varia it differs 
in its manner of growth, as well as in its staminate spike, 
scale, and in its fruit being more ovate, less globose, slightly 
cent, and scabrous or ciliate-serrate along the beak. 
124, C. verna. Vill. Pers. no. 103. 
— precox. Jacq. Wahl. no. 98, Pers. no. 91- 
Schk. tab. fig. 27. 
Spica staminifera solitaria erecta ; spicis fructiferis tristig- 
faticis binis ovato-oblongis approximatis sub-pedunculatis ; 
fructibus ovalibus subtriquetris acutis pubescentibus, squama 
ovato-oblonga sub-mucronata paulo brevioribus. 
Culm 2—6 inches ‘high, triquetrous, smooth; leaves sub- 
i linear, eabicead on the edge, rigid, spreading, "longer 
than the culm ; sheaths short, terminated by a short, lanceo- 
ries acute bract; staminate spike single, ia mnie PS 
dunculate, Sancti: with a few pissillate fo rets at the base; 
staminate, scale oval, rather lon ng, 0 why; Ss 
obtu tigmas 
; pistillate spikes two, approximate. “ovate sub- 
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