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shes strate glabrous, white on the side of the stipule ; 
spikelets 2—4, gen nerally 3, staminate below, pane often. 
sogisinnaed ut commonly rather remote, 3—5 
and loosely imbricated, all bracted except the highest ¢ 
bracts long, slender, filiform, the lowest often surpassing 
the culm; stigmas ee ‘ol oblong-lanceolate, convex on. 
the upper, and flat on the lower side, acuminate, beaked, 
forked, subscabrous on ee. margin ; pistillate scale oblong, 
lanceolate, white, and transparent witha green es. Tt 
ed, anda little shorter than the the fruit. The ¢ 
the whole plant is yellowish green. oa 
Flowers in June—grows on the borders of moist. roc y 
woods on hills, never inclusters. In Williamstown on the 
a Plaank side a Stone Hill, one mile from the College. Also 
In lainfi 
The piste scale is somewhat variable, being some- 
imes more ovate and shorter, and at ort aiieee more lap- 
ceolate and a Teetly as long as the fru 
This species resembles C. ponder i Wahl., but dif- 
fers from his description in the number of the spikelets, 
and in the pistillate scale and fruit. From his C. tenuiflora 
it differs in its spikelets, fruit, and leaves, and is clearly 
different from this species as given by Schk. tab. Heee fig. 
187. It differs from C. disperma, Vol. VIII. p. 266, of 
this Journal, in the position of its staminate florets, and i in 
its fruit and scale. From the ng atte Bpacios it differs in 
several important characters. 
Bi Ge trispermas ani 
Spiculis ternis remotis alternis vatis apice fe- 
mineis, suprema ebracteata ; fract = — vel - 
breve rostratis plano-convexis ore il 
sis apice subscabris sub- divergent r 
acuta hyalina longioribus. ; 
Culm 18—24 inches high, sendee prolinte, filiform, 
peels: Rippers leafy ; leaves very narrow, linear, 
shorter than the culm; sheaths striate, glabrous; spike- 
lets 3, staminate below, ovate, remote, often an inch apart, 
G4 teuited, but very generally 3-fruited, the two lower 
supported by filiform, scabrous bracts surpassing the 
culm; stigmas two; fruit oblong, convex above and plain 
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