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tut pubescent in its younger state, obtuse; pistillate scale 
ovate, acuminate, white on the margin, green on the keel, 
neatly as long as the fruit, colour of the plant rather a light 
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' Fission; in-May. Grows on moist upland meadows and 
hills. Phillipstown, N. ¥ —Dr. Barratt. In the meadows 
south of Newburgh, N. ¥ with C. squarresa, C. granulari- 
oides, C. pubescens—common, like the preceding ib Rernite 
but not abundant in Berkshire county. 
chk. bas given two figs. of this plant, and also of the cape 
sules, but the varieties of this species are not likely to lead to 
mistakes. ‘Though it is a very distinct species, it may before 
maturity be confounded with C. virescens, because its young 
fruit is pubescent, Its shorter, thicker spikes, and its lon: * 
retrorsely fy pubescent leaves, easily distinguish it, even uated 
its fruit mes glabrous, from that species. 
45. = vestita. Willd. 
., Pursh, —— pr 106, & El. 
Sch. tab. Bbbb 
Spica stamenifera solitaria, vel bas, replicate oblonga, 
suprema elongata pedunculata ; ; spicis fractiferis tristigmaticis 
binis ovato-oblongis sessilibus subapproximatis bracteatis, se- 
pe superne stameniferis ; fructibus ovatis oblongis subtrique- 
tris nervosis brevi-rostratis bifidis pubescentibus, squama ova= 
to-oblonga acutiuscula submucronata paulo longioribus. 
Culm 18—30 inches high, acutely triangular, scabrous 
above, striate ; leaves linear-lanceolate, striate, ro ugh, short- 
er shen the culm, abbreviated below; staminate ines one, 
sometimes two, oblong, cylindric—the highest long, large, and 
pedunculate—the lowest sessile and short; staminate scale 
oblong, tawny, white and membranaceous on the n in; 
ie three, sometimes two according to + pistillate 
kes 2—3, sessile, oblong, cylindric, about watt an inch long, 
oie with a few staminate florets at the a supported. by 
long, leafy bracts shorter than the culm; rait ‘ovate-oblong, 
shortly beaked, bifid, nerved, somewhat three-sided, -pubes~ _ 
cent; pistillate scale ‘ovate-oblong, su mucronate, mony) 
green on the keel, and a little shorter fe the fruit. 
Flowers in May. Inhabits wet and marshy situations. It 
has not been found in Berkshire county—common on Con. | 
necticut river, in Massachusetts and Connectieut— Deerfield, 
Mr Hitchcock—Pennsylvania. 
