ie ar ann. Aa 
; hes | sient er, ara 
peas ‘above, | eafy 5 3 lin lanceolate, scabrous 
Caricography. 71 
more than two staminate spikes, and have never found a 
pistillate spike which was Sieminaie below on this species. 
35. C. bullata. . Schk. 
Pursh, Eaton, Persoon No. 2056 
Schk. tab. Uuu fig. 166. 
Spicis staminiferis et fructiteris eneing spicis sigue 
iniferis ternis longiusculis, suprema pedunculata, infima 
bracteata ; spicis fructiferis tristigmaticis binis exserte pe- 
dunculatis oblongis cylindraceis atat nei ies tibus 
ovatis globosis inflatis erectis glabris ¢ atis cu stro 
sub- ge hifursa log a lance 
ut 
2 ate, long culm, 
shorter below ; 5 ate ; staminate spikes 2—3, 
highest Sedundghete aid Soar ind oe the lower short- 
er and sessile and the lowest bracted ; stigmas 3; pistillate 
spikes 2--3, oblong, cylindric, rather erect, with peduncles 
longer than ‘the sheaths ; bracts with shortish sheaths, leafy, 
scabrous, surpassing the culm, narrow; fruit ovate, glo- 
bose, much inflated, ribbed or strongly "nerved, glabrous, 
with a scabrous or subhispid and bifureate beak ; pistillate 
scale rather broad- eaapeolal, reddish brown on the edge 
and green on the keel, and about half the length of the 
fruit; plant glabrous aad light green. One of the stami- 
nate spikes is sometimes androgynous. 
Flowers in May—grows in marshy places or among 
bogs. 1 have found it only in a meadow nearly a mile 
south of the Mecting-house in Sheffield in this County 
Deerfield—Rev. Mr. Hitchcock ; Penn. by M. Schweintz. 
Though Pursh says itis common, it has rarely been. found. 
This species is finely drawn by Schk, and is readily dis- 
tuauabed from the other species in Ph. and Hola a 
p86 &. a" yperus, L. 
_ Muh., Ph., Eaton, Agh., Rees’ ae: No. 
14 0, Pers. No 169. 
Schk. jen Mm fig. 102. 
fi € a * me * . . . . * . 
Spicis staminiferis et fructiferis distinctis ; spica stamin- 
