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Culm four to eight inches hlgh^ erect^ slightly scabrous, trique- 

 trous, striate ; leaves shorter below, upper one about as long as the 

 culm ; spikes androgynous staminate below, oblong-cylindric, about 

 four, short pedunculate, approximate, brownish ; fruit broad lanceo- 

 late, acute at each end, acuminate or rostrate, compressed, bifid, 

 and slightly winged, convex above ; scale ovate, obtusish, tawny, 

 broad, shorter than the fruit. 



Found on the Rocky Mountains. 



No. 149. C. memhranacea^ Hooker.* 



Tab. X. fig- 73. 

 Splcis distlnctis, staminiferis sub-binis oblongis cylindracels cum 

 squamis e laciniis membranacels ; pistilliferis tristigmaticis cylindra- 

 cels subbinis, suprema superne staminifera sessile, infima ssepe pe- 

 dunculata, omnibus dense fructiferis et nlgris; fructibus ovatis sub- 



londoribus. 



squama 



Culm about a foot high, erect triquetrous, scabrous above, leafy 

 towards the base; leaves nearly long as the culm, shorter below ; 

 staminate spikes 1 — 3, oblong, cylindric, sessile, with oblong and 

 obtuse and black scales but white and membranaceous on the edge ; 



1—3 



and staminate above, lower pedunculate or sometimes sessile also, , 

 densely flowered, oblong and cylindric and black, with a leafy bract; 

 fruit ovate, ventricose, sub-triquetrous, short-rostrate, orifice two- 

 lobed, black ; pistillate scale ovate, obtuse, black, shorter than the 

 fruit. 



This is a beautiful species. Found at sea coast, Arctic regions, 

 at Bear Lake, and on the Rocky Mountains, and Kotzbue's Sound. 

 It is a distinct species, the scales and covering of seed being sin- 

 gularly membranaceous. — Hooker. 



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No, 150. C. marina, D. 

 Tab. X. fis. 74. 



ornaticis 



Proximatis sessilibus, infima bracteata ; glurais omnibus fuscis ova- 

 to-obtusis; fructibus ovatis sub-lanceolatis acutlusculis plano-con- 

 vexis, squama paulo longioribus. 



• In Appendix to Parry's second Voyage, and Hooker and ArnoU's Botany of 

 Capi. Beechy's Voyage. 



