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Culm 3-4 feet high, with large leaves overtopping it; whole 

 plant glaucous ; flowers in October, and is considered by Mr. 

 Curtis as an autumnal variety ; and to his opinion every botanist 

 will respond, that it is a most splendid species. 



The C. glaucescens, Ell. and C. verrucosa, Ell. appear to be 

 only varieties of C. verrucosa, Muh., and the preceding variety 

 belongs therefore to the species named by Muhlenberg. The 

 C. verrucosa, Muh. is there a very variable plant, flowering at 

 different seasons, and showing sometimes several staminate spikes, 

 sometimes only one, and sometimes an androgynous spike. The 

 description of C. glaucescens, Ell. is in Vol. xi, p. 150, Tab. M, 



fig. 39. 



No. 178. C. miser, Buckley. Tab. Dd, fig. 100. 



Spicis distinctis ; staminifera unica ebracteata, squamaque ob- 

 longa obtusa margine membranacea ; pistilliferis binis vel ternis 

 tinstigmaticis pedunculitis subapproximatis erectis laxifloris brac- 

 teatis; fructibus lanceolatis subtriquetris glabris, squama ovata 

 obtusa duplo longioribus. 



Culm 8-12 inches high, erect, 3-sided, leafy towards the base, 

 and with long leafy bracts scarcely sheathing the peduncles ; 

 leaves many, short, narrow, smooth ; staminate spike single, half 

 an inch long, loose-flowered, dark brown, with oblong and ob- 

 tuse scales membranaceous at the margin; pistillate spikes 2-3, 

 on filiform peduncles about half an inch long, loose-fruited ; 

 fruit lanceolate, smooth, twice as long as the ovate and obtusish 

 scales, membranaceous on the margin ; plant slender, and of a 

 poor aspect, as its name implies. 



Found by S. B. Buckley on Roan Mountain in North Caroli- 

 na, and first described by him with the two following species in 

 this Journal, Vol. xlv, p. 173. Related to C. tetanica, Schk. ; 

 but is very remote from it. 



No. 179. C. stylofiexa, Buckley. Tab. Dd, fig. 101. 



Spicis distinctis; staminifera solitaria brevi vel longo-peduncu- 

 lata ; pistilliferis (2-4) subternis tristigmaticis ovatis vel oblongis 

 subsparsifloris, superiore subsessili erecta, inferioribus longo-ex- 

 serte pedunculatis retrocurvis folioso-bracteatis ; fructibus ovatis 

 triquetris acutis vix inflatis curvo-rostratis bidentatis, squama ob- 

 longa mucronata margine membranacea paulo longioribus. 



