Carwcography. 3] 
This plant has a slight resemblance to one variety of C, 
crinita, for which it is sometimes mistaken. ‘They differ 
however in their spikes, and especially in their pistillate 
scales; and, though the scale of C. miltacea is sometimes so 
slightly emarginate as to require nice examination, they are 
easily distinguished. 
48. C. umbellata. Schk. 
ae . Pursh, Eaton, Pers. no. 172, Schw, 
chk. tab. Www fig, 171. 
Spicis demgctios spica staminifera brevis, solitaria longa 
pedunculata; spicis fructiferis tristigmaticis subjuaternis, 
una sepe subsessili et staminifere Sepees mere. sag sub- 
radicalibus exserte-pedunculatis, omnibus ovatis subumbel- 
latis ; fructibus ovatis utrinque acutis rostratis centchlatins 
tis nine enh squamam ovato-lanceolatam equantibus, 
m half an inch to four inches long, leafy; leaves sub- 
ae linear, rough on the edge, rather stiff, 6—12 inches 
long, purple at the base, inclosing the peduncles of the lower 
spikes; staminate spike single. long-pedunculate, short, 
round; staminate scale oblong, rather acute, tawney 5 pistil- 
late spikes 3—5, often one near the staminate, subsessile and 
bracteate, the others exsertly Aap ie erect, subradical, 
with five to fifteen fruit standing in a subumbellate form ; fruit 
ovate, attenuated at the base. rostrate, nerved, ie en and 
slightly bidentate; pistillate seale ovate-lanceolate, green on 
the hes about equalling the fruit. Whole plant is pale 
7 Flowers ‘in May—grows in small tufts on on sy ills in 2 
light soil. I have aes ‘it only in this town. Phillipston, 
N. ¥ —Dr. Barra 
This is a finely. " characterized species, The pistillate 
spike near the staminate is not mentioned distinetly Py - 
author, and though it is very common, is not univ 
found on the specimens growing here. Schk. has Seared 
two forms of the fruit, but has not given the upper and ses- 
sile pistillate spike ; yet as both varieties are found growing 
together, there can be no doubt of their identity. 
49. C. laxiflora. La 
Muh., Pursh, Bons 1s Pers no. 152 and Ell. no. 
and Rees’ Eye 136. Schw. 
Schk. tab. Kkk fig. 1 
C. grisea. Wahl. no. 35, and Rees’ Cyc. no. 150. 
C. paupercula. 
