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ded and very short-heaked, oblique at the orifice, and equal 
to the oblong scale. 
This is a very tine species, growing. in tufts upon hills 
with open woods. It has a lax culm, and is clearly distin- 
guished by its pistillate wie asi shape of its fruit. It 
agrees perfectly with the figure in Schk., and answers also 
to the description. . It has passed under several names. It 
is scarcely peed 8 to remark that C. alpestris, Pers. is 
avery different plan 
the species of se found in our country and descri- 
bed by various authors,some have evidently been confound- 
ed with others, and some have not been so perfectly de- 
scribed as to be readily distinguished from others to which 
they are related. Among them are the following. 
i. Carex panbnilephiotas 
Pursh, Muh. Pers. Natt. ig alias : 
Schk. tab. Hbh. fig. 1 
The name. of this species, though credited to Wahl. by 
Schk. is not in Wahl. Cariographen, and | am ‘unable to 
find any description of his which corresponds to it. ~Con- 
siderable difficulty has arisen in ascertaining this species on 
account of the section in which it is placed by most authors. 
Ph. places it in the section, spikes androgynous, and —r 
Vision, spike single, staminate at the-apex. Yet s de- 
scription, taken’ like most of them from Willd | 
shows that the spike is compound, and Schk. has be Of 
nate at the apex. Nuttall and Eaton put it in the same 
Place. Parsh was probably led into this mistake by con- 
sidering C. typhina ina, Mx. as the same plant, for he gives ‘it 
as a Synonyme- The characters of €. typhina, prove it to 
be a very different plant, pe it is generals considered as 
the C. squarrosa, L, so well ribed by Mub. Sie ee 
his description by the words, “‘4n Cit see es Mz. : 
C. cephalophora is readily distingu 
Sregated ets 3 als c ssed ovate fruit, s¢ scabrous 3 
and its small ovate scale; scarcely half the length of the “hon ruit 
and terminating in @ Euapidatt 3 scabrous awn Salen ng about pom 
la the end of. the fruite It is said by Muh. to be o 
to four feet high, but I have rarely found it to exceed twen- 
ty inches, and it is often much less. 
