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iaceis distantibus, squamis lanceolatis, capsulis subglobosis 
inflatis setaceo-rostratis divergentibus, culmo Sphere tp 
foliis subangustis marginibus incurvis.”——Wabl. n : 
The following description is from Willd. Sp. Pl.— 
Staminate spikes three—pistillate spikes cylindric, erect, on 
short peduncles—fruit sub-globose, inflated, with the beak 
bifurcate, sn than the lanceolate scaie. 
This is the C. vesioaria of Lightfoot in Fi. Scot., and 
may be mistaken for C. vesicaria L., which is credited to 
made to Ges 106, and not 1o 166. Both pe onan 
marshes, but they are readily distinguished by their 
and scales. C. ampullacea has an —— sub ‘phoblar 
3 with an attenuated beak, er than its lanceolate oho 
- vesicaria, L. has an inflated, bine smn te 
subulate fruit, scarcely longer than the oma ‘Both: elias 
helong to the same subdivision in Ph. &c 
C. pallescens L. 
Schk. tab. Kk. fig. 99. 
Pers. no. 174, and Rees’ Cyc. 
C. “Spicis pedunculatis subcylindraceis nutantibus, 
brac eis subamplectentibus subfoliaceis subdistantibus, cap- 
sulis ovali-ellipticis obtusissimis teretibus.”—Wabl. no. 121. 
The following account, translated from the Car, Scan. of 
Agardh, was taken from living specimens 
“Culm erect, a foot high, three sided, ‘sulcate, leafy at 
the base. Bracts scarcely erie ofien transversély 
ragose. Staminate spike lanceolate. Pistillate spikes three, 
ovate, obtuse, pale. Scales ovate, carinate, yellowish with 
4 green keel, roe s Bene nand cia as the and ith 
ao they agree minutely with species roi ‘Sweden. 
The leaves = sheathes are slightly pilose, as are those 
which I have from Sweden and Engla bract 
often transversely rugose. ‘The inconstant difference a the 
Scales it shares in common with C. 
which Muh. considered the same with the plant so called 
nour nageet though he remarked the difference in the 
