= 
pea: 
ee, 
Carveography. 279 
fruit, with a greenish keel. Colour of the plant light green 
and ofa dried appearance. ft ee 
Mass., where it was found by Mr. E. Davis, principal of the 
academy. ' nt awow 
This is a singular and beautiful species. It considerably 
resembles C, intermedia, Gooden. and Schk, tab, B fig. 7 
especially in the situation of the staminate flowers and ne es. 
Like this too, C. siccata, may be found to be quite variable in 
the number of spikes producing fruit. On the specimens of C, 
intérmedia, received from the north of Europe, the fruit and 
scale are ovate; the spikes larger and more numerous, and 
the lowest has a foliaceous, bristly, long bract; the leaves 
aré much broader and longer :—the plant grows too ih! wet 
situations, In these characters it is easily distinguished from 
C siccata. \ The figure of our plant does not show the usual 
number of spikelets. tote ’ 
79. C. Davisii. (Mihi.) | becca 
Spicis distinctis ; spica staminifera solitaria sessili brevi ; 
spicis fructiferis tristigmaticis, binis vel ternis staminifere ap- 
approximatis ovatis sessilibus paucifloris, sepe una radicali 
longo-pedunculata ; fructibus globoso-triquetris basin attenu- 
atis rostratis pubescentibus ore obliquo, squame ovate sube 
qualibus ; culmo decumbente. 
Cc 
base, lanceolate, the lower one leafy and i ear, a eo : 
‘the bract of 
tate scale, tawny, white on the edge and green on the keel; 
pistillate spikes two or three near the 
fruit. © Colour‘of the plant light “esi re 
i in open woods on dry hills. 
