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Flowers in June. Grows in moist meadows and slbng wet 
hedges; common. Penn.—Schweinitz. 
This species belon 1s in the same natural division as C. 
festucacea, with which it has probably been confounded. It 
appears, however, to be distinct from it, and is very appro- 
priately named. In the number of spikes it resembles C, 
(agopoduoides, but is a very different plant. 
. C. floridana. Schw. Analyt. Tab. 
Spicis distineti spica staminifera solitaria sessili parva ; 
spicis fructiferis distigmaticis sub-quaternis aggregatis ovatis 
sessilibus bracteatis, infima sepe sub-remotis, fructibus ova- 
libus basi subattenuatis sain pivaill convexo-planis rostratis 
brevé bifidis, squame ovato-oblonge scabro-cuspidate equa- 
libus. Vide ig. Obs. -spica terminali superne staminifera, 
secundum 
Culm abet s six inches high, triquetrous, slender, scabrous 
above; leaves radical, linear, flat, narrow, sometimes a foot 
long ; bracts linear-lanceolate, leafy, lower ones surpassing 
the culm; staminate spike single, short, small, cylindric, 
sessile,—pistillate at the base according to Schweinitz but 
entirely staminate in my specimens ; staminate scale laucee- 
late, tawny on the edge; pistillate spikes three to five, ovate, 
short, sessile, aggregate, bracteate, lower one sometimes 
rather remote; stigmas two; fruit oval, compressed, some- 
what dthetuate: at the pine: rostrate, glabrous, me bifid ; 
pistillate’ scale ovate-oblong, gt and quite scabrous, 
white and membranaceous, green on the keel, long as the 
fruit. Colour of the plant light yee. 
Found in Florida by Mr. Le Conte,—appears to be a very 
distinct De uid C. oy in the same natural division as C. 
nove-a e, and C. pyriformis, unless the upper spike 
should prove to be generally androgynous. a my speci- 
—: am indebted to the kindness of Dr. Torr 
a 66. ee Blanda. (mihi) 
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Spicis eetactis: spica staminifera solitaria erecta pedun- 
quetra; spicis fructiferis tristigmaticis subternis 
oblongis cylindraceis subsparsifloris alternis bracteatis, st- 
