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subexserté pedunculatis ; fructibus ovato-conie€is acuminatis 
rostratis bidentatis maximis glaberrimis nervosis inflatis di- 
vergentibus, squama ovato-cuspidata triplo longioribus. 
ulm 12—24 inches high, acutely triangular, scabrous 
above, leafy ; leaves linear-lanceolate, rather rough, nerved, 
glabrous, shorter below, upper ones surpassing the culm; 
bracts long, leafy, nerved, much surpassing the culm, with 
short sheaths; staminate spike single, pedunculate, oblong, 
slender; staminate scale long, lanceolate, tawney ; pistillate 
spikes 1—3, generally two, approximate, erect, with inclosed 
and short peduncles, the highest nearly sessile, the lowest 
sometimes remote and exsertly peduneulate, three to nine 
flowered but generally about six ; fruit ovate, conic, rostrate, 
two-togihed, much inflated, nerved ; pistillate scale ovate, 
te, about one-third as long as the fruit. Colour of 
the whole plant dark green—very glabrous. 
e018 
B. C. intumescens ? Rudge, Pursh, Rees’ Cyc. 
. 145. 
Flowers in te—scar in marshy situations—common. 
From the description of this species by Linneus, which has 
been repeated by most of the authors until the publication of 
Muh.’s Gram., it would seem that the specimens first sent to 
ag e had ony one epee wes Hence the descriptions 
2 Willd., Pa Eaton, Rees’ Cyc. &c. are defective, as 
there | is Sueraly more than one sa spike. The writer 
be’ never seen. There can oe no douot that the c. lucid 
Wahl. is not, as is supposed in n Rees’ Cyc., the C. intuenaae 
cens, Rudge; but is the C. — Muh. Of this, if it 
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