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98. Carex criniia, Lamarck. 



C. spicis sterilibus geminis, (interdum androgynis) ; fertilibus 



quaternis, distantibus, pendulis, cylindraceis, densifloris ; 



fructibus subrotundo-ovatis, ventricosis, brevissime rostel- 



latis, ore integris, gluma lineari duplo vel triplo breviori- 



bus. 

 C. crinita, Lam. enc. iii. p. 379. Willd. sp. pi. iv. p. 300. 



Schk. car. t. Eee. f. 125. et Ttt. f. 164. Bees' Cylop. No. 



171. Purshfl. i. p. 38. Muhl. gram. p. 229. Elliott s7c. ii. 



p. 536. 

 C. paleacea, Wahl. act. holm. 1S03. p. 164. Bees 1 Cyclop. 



141. 

 C. leonura, Wahl. (secund. Swartz, Muhl.) 



Culm 2 — 4 feet high, erect, triquetrous on the angles. Leaves longer than 

 the culm, pale green, 3 — 4 lines broad. Sterile spikes 1 — 2, long and 

 slender, cernuous, one long-pedunculate, the other subsessile, frequent- 

 ly fertile at the summit ; glumes linear subulate, hispid. Fertile 

 spikes generally 4, but sometimes 5, very densely fruited, often stami- 

 niferous at the summit, cylindrical, 2 — 3 inches long, on peduncles 

 which increase in length downward, and are supported by long leafy 

 bractese, all of them pendulous and incurved ; glumes lanceolate, ending 

 in a very long hispid point, which is from two to three times as long as 

 the fruit, spreading, carinate. Fruit very short and dilated-ovate, some- 

 what ventricose, nerved, smooth ; rostrum short, with the orifice minute 

 and entire. 



Hab. In swamps ; Canada to Georgia ; common. Flowers 



in June. 

 /3. gynandra : spicis fructiferis subternis, oblongo-cylindricis, 



fructibus brevi-ovatis, gluma aristata paulo longioribus. 



Culm 12 — 13 inches high. Leaves 2— 3 lines broad, mostly radical. Ster' 

 He spikes 1 — 2, very often with fertile florets either at the summit or the 

 base ; glumes lanceolate, acute. Fertile spikes 3—4, about two inches 

 long, thicker, but not as densely fruited as in the preceding species, 

 nodding; glumes ovate, mucronate; the scabrous points projecting a 

 little beyond the fruit, yellowish, with the keel and point green. Fruit 

 broad-ovate, smooth, and of a vellow color when young. 



