36 c aricography, 
spike, though Muh. seems often to have noticed such speci- 
mens. 
. C. miliaris, Mx. 
Spicis sieigcis ; spica staminifera solitaria pallida longius 
pedunculata ; spica fructifera sessili ovoidea Branton 
are brevi; fructibus spheroideis levibus. 
s I have never seen this plant, I have merely changed the 
dae pd ~ x. so asto be in conformity with the pre- 
culm is erect, slender, scabrous above, leafy ; 
leaves vetyte narrow and flat ; pistillate spike single, ovate, 
tawney, sectile,—sometimes two, the lower being distant 
and sessile; bract bristly and ev? fruit spheroidal and 
smooth.. 
Grows in the northern marshes of Canada according to Mx. 
There is reason to doubt whether it is found in one of the 
localities mentioned by Pursh. The plant appears to be en- 
tirely distinct from others yet described, and if the descrip- 
tion be at all complete, wil] doubtless hereafter be found about 
the northern lakes, and not improbably about ponds among 
the mountains of th spt an part of the United States. 
54 ae anceps uh, 
: Patty Ent, Schw., Pers. no. 134. Ell. no. 
- Schw 
Schk. ab Fr fig. 128, and ig Kkkk fig. 195. 
C. plantaginea. Muh. Gra 
C. pit: lige Wahl. no. 67. 
C. strintula. 
Spicis esuotins spica staminifera solitaria oblonga breve 
pedunculata ; spicis fructifcris tristigmaticis subternis subfili- 
formibus erectis alternis sparsifloris pedunculo ancipiti, su- 
prema subsessili, ceteris subremotis exserté pedunculatis ; 
‘ructibus ovali-ventricosis basi elongatis apice attenuatis alter- 
nis subtriquetris glabris striatis ore membranaceo vel integro 
“ee Se om oblonga mucronata vel ovata acuta paulo 
“Gulm foil one foot high, acutely triangular, often nearly 
two-edged above and scabrous, leafy; radical leaves, tiving 
through the winter, linear-lanceolaie, rather long, distinctly 
nerved or ribbed, from one fourth to more than half an inch 
wide, glaucous and often remaining glaucous through the win- 
ter, sending forth the culm in the spring ; those of the culm 
