Se. ae F 
68 Caricography. 
ing scarcely to the beak or about half the ‘Weigh: of the 
fruit; the whole plant glabrous, large, and its colour yel- 
lowish green. The lower pistillate spikes are sometimes 
branched, having one or two spikelets attached to them. 
Flowers in May ; owe in clusters about pools of stand- 
ing water—abundan 
his species is cleatty differentifrom C. lupulina, Muh., 
the C. lurida, Wahl. It more nearly resembles C. gigantea, 
uh., but differs from it in several obvious characters. 
32. C; pie Rewer: (Mibi.) 
mat cin 3 spicis staminiferis binis, : 
: | an Scale edunculata ; spicis fructiferis qua- 
ternis oblong: Payindacar Bupa yreximatis incluse pe- 
dunculatis sabia cum bracteis longis poliaceis ; fruc- 
tibus ovato-oblongis supra attenuatis rostratis inflatis bifur- 
catis ea eet squama lanceolata subulata subseta- 
cea longiori 
Culm 6— 12, inches high, triangular, scabrous above, 
wery leafy; leaves Ta lanceolate, nearly flat, seabrous 
on their r edges, with striate sheaths ; staminate spikes two, 
sometimes one, the highest long, slender and pedunculate, 
the other sates sessile, and sometimes pistillate below with 
a slender, filiform, scabrous bract long as the spike ; stam- 
inate scale oblong-lanceolate, brownish, white on the edg- 
es; stigmas 3; pistillate spikes 3—5, usually 4, long, cy- 
lindric, rather. near, somewhat pendulous, cather loose 
flowered, upper one sessile, the middle ones shortly and 
exsertly pedunculate, the lowest often rather remote ar 
pretty long-—exsertly pedunculate ; bracts long, lea yoflat, 
scabrous on their edges, surpassing the culm, wit her 
short, striate sheathes ; fruit ovate-oblong, a ; 
above, beaked, ventricose, nerved, glabrous, 2- 
tillate scale lanceolate, subulate, somewhat b 
subs¢abrous, and about two thirds as long as the ff 
whole plant glabrous, atibecleonsnienit; and its colo 
lowish. i 
Flowers in June—grows in wet, sandy oil 
of the descent to the alluvial of the Hoosieh 
and Pownal, V te-eabundant. 
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