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and that this is the plant described under this name in Pursh, 
Eaton, and Pers. no. 150. C, conoidea, Schk. bas oblong, 
obtusish, and terete or oblong-conic fruit, which is entirely 
different from that of C. blanda, which is more nearly related 
to C. granularis and C. pyriformis, while the true C. conoi- 
dea is related to the C, pallescens. 
Remark 1. As the specific name of the species described 
in Vol. VII. p. 277, had been previously adopted by R. 
Brown for another species, it becomes necessary to give 
another name to the former. A description from more per- 
fect specimens here follows. 
C. Torreyana. (mihi) 
Vol. 1X. Tab. A. fig. 1. Am. Journ. 
C. aristata. Vol. VII. p. 277. 
Spica terminali androgyna inferne staminifera;  spicis 
fructiferis subternis oblongis sparsifloris remotis exserte pe- 
dunculatis subpendulis ; fructibus tristigmaticis oblongis basi 
subattenuatis subinflatis subtriquetris nervosis acutiusculis 
brevi-rostratis ore bilobo, sqaamz oblonge scabro-aristate 
subequalibus. ' 
Culm 12—20 inches high, triquetrous, scabrous above , 
leaves linear-lanceolate, long as the culm, shorter below. 
with striate sheaths, seabrous on the edge, flat; bracts linear- 
lanceolate, surpassing the culm; lower ones with rather 
long sheaths; androgynous spike terminal, oblong, clubform, 
staminate below; stamivate scale lanceolate, acuminate, 
white, green on the keel; pistillate spikes 2—4, about three, 
oblong, rather loose flowered, more or less exsertly pedun- 
culate, rather remote, filiform when young, somewhat pen- 
dulous with a flexuous rachis; stigmas three; fruit oblong, 
somewhat attenuated at the base, terete above, glabrous, 
nerved, subi:flated with a short beak two-lobed at the orifice ; 
pistillate scale oblong, white and hyaline, green on the keel, 
with a long scabrous awn, variable in length, shorter or even 
longer than the fruit, but generally nearly equal to its length. 
Colour of the plant rather light. green; leaves and sheaths 
pubescent. | 
Flowers in May and June. Grows on the alluvial mea- 
dows of the Housatonic in Sheffield. 
