66 '  Caricography. 
bracts long, leafy, surpassing the culm, with short sheaths 
wholly inclosing the peduncles ; fruit ovate, sub-inflated, 
beaked, ribbed, reflexed, with the beak a little curved; 
pistillate scale ‘ovate-lanceolate, brownish-red, green on 
the keel, and about two-thirds the length of the fruit; the 
whole plant glabrous and of a yellowish colour. 
Flowers i in Maye stows in wet upland meadows about 
ndant in Stockbridge and Lenox in this county, 
and in Pown , Vt. Also in Plainfield. Found in the 
i 5 of Canada ucconding to Mx. Also at Phil- 
n, N. ¥.—Dr. Barre 
This species appears oe ‘to have been found by Muh. 
and Ph. does not give any definite locality. Though it 
seems to bea large plant than the European, yet it exact- 
ly resembles the fig. in Schk. and the European specimens 
with which I have compared it. 
30. C 
Spicis dictitietin tristigmaticis ; spica stamenifera solita- 
ria triquetra pedunculata ; spicis fructiferis subquinis sub- 
remotis exserte ‘pedunculatis cylindraceis alternis sube- 
rectis cum longis foliaceis bracteis instructis; fructibus 
ovato-oblongis rostratis subventricosis subbifidis scabris, 
squama ovato-lanceolata acuminata margine subciliata 
apice scabra Féngiovibus. 
Culm 1—2 feet high, acutely 3-sided, striate, scabrous 
above, leafy; leaves linear lanceolate, rather broad, sca- 
brous on the edges and upper side, nearly the length 
of the culm, striate; staminate spike single, shortly 
pedunculate with its scale lanceolate, brown 
a green keel; stigmas three; _pistillate spikes | 35, 
cylindric, upper one nearly sessile, the others peduncu- 
late, the lowest often very distant and long pediinculte 
little nodding, rather remote but sometimes pretty near ; 
bracts long, broad, Jeafy, the lower ones much surpassing 
the culm, oppet ‘ones s with short sheaths, and all the 
shor the peduncles ; fruit ovate-oblong, 
subventricose, shortly 2-t 
7 
. scabrata. Schw.* 
Bik 
ounger state, and in maturil . 
ate-lanceolate, with a cabins 
¥. 
nS 
2, 
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