ATs Caricography. 
ine subscabris nervosis bifidis, divergentibus, squama ovaio-- 
anceolata subduplo longioribus. 
Culm 1—3 feet high, acutely triquetrous, — scabrous 
above, hollowed on the sides; leaves lanceolate, rather 
broad, nerved, rough on the edges, often re as the culm, 
with striate sheaths 3 ; spike decompound, from one to three 
bro tilla , 
itr Tittle more than half ‘the Teng of the fruit. Co- 
r of the plant varies from deep to yellowish green. 
Flowers in May—grows in wet soil and about marshes; 
Sennen 
his plant greatly oe C, vulpina, L.; but differs 
in fruit, and scale, and sp 
7. C. siccaia. (Mi hi. y 
: Am. Journ. Vol. X. tab. F. fig. 
pica comp es mstigmatica ; pets terminal endiesy- 
acuminatis compressis margine sir bifidis nervosis, squa- 
atam subwequanti 
Culm 12—18 inches high, tiqietons, small, stiff, scabrous 
above ; leaves linear, narrow, tri at the end, shorter 
than the cul m, scabrous, sheathing es og the base ; vafike 
compound, stigmas two, spikelets three to seven, ovate, 
somewhat acute except the highest, sessile, approximate, 
tawny; the highest androgynous, staminate above ; 
lower smaller, staminate; the lowest ichaes pistillate be- 
low, and supported by an ovate-lanceolate, tawny scale or 
bract, and sometimes rather remote ; fruit ovate-lanceolate, 
compressed, bifid. nerved, acuminate, glabrous, bie a sca- 
‘Margin ;,staminate scale ovate, lanceolate, 3 pis- 
fillate seale like the staminate, about equal to the fangth {", the 
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