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small, Sie three nerved, very compact, and much di- | 
ing in maturity ; pistillate scale ovate, somewhat 
coute- leaned awned, tawney with a green keel, shorter 
than the fruit, and its awn often projecting a little ehayend 
the fruit t. 
Flowers in May—grows in moist meadows. 
This is a variable species. ‘The common variety is ex- 
cellently figured by Schk., who has given three different 
forms of the fruit. There is much difference also in the 
magnitude and aggregation of the spikelets. I have never 
seen one specimen, comer whose spike would corres-— 
ond to the character given by Parsh to this mie ® 
Ie anguste ietewiain.? othe spike is not a panic 
Ne bm perely) is supra-decompound. The fruit is als 
d and less acuminate on some en 
itn Rt ya 4 a specimen of this kind was d 
Wahl. under the name of C. microsperma in the fol- 
weg ts rms. 
“ Spiculis apice masculis in clavam supradecompositam 
crassiusculam conglomeratis, squamis cuspidatis, capsulis 
minutis ventricoso-ovalibus acuminato-subrostratis acutis- 
angulis subdivergentibus ; ie Bepgustis 
25.:C, diesel (Mihi.) 
Spicis sessilibus alternis approximatis bracteatis ; ;apiotalae 
apice masculis ovatis obtusis conglomeratis bracteatis ; 
subdivergentibus, squama ovato-lanceolata aristata sub- 
zequalibus. 
This new fishies has probably been confounded w wits 
C. multiflora. In its general appearance and in sev 
characters it is very diferent from it, and from any species 
hitherto described. It appears to be intermediate between 
C. multiflora and C. stipata: its culm and leaves much 
resemble the latter, as well as its fruit, except that it is 
Much more compressed, and its decompound spike e and 
aggregation of spikelets are much like those of the former: 
Its fruit however is less ovate, longer and more compress- 
ed than that of C. multiflora, Its general characters are 
the following. 
