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pedunculatis recurvatis; fructibus ovalibus brevirostratis oblongis 
ore obliquis, squama ovata oblonga obtusa longioribus. 
“Grows in tufts from two seven inches high,” Robbins; culm 
roundish, smooth, quite leafy towards the base, and having a 
leafy bract under the spikes; leaves narrow, long as the culm; 
fertile spikes on exsert recurved peduncles, with a few rather 
loose flowers, and having the fruit oblong, oval, acutish, some- 
what beaked, and longer than the oblong or ovate and obtuse 
scale. 
Schkuhr credits this species to most of Europe. It has been 
found in arctic America to the Rocky Mountains. Torrey. It 
was found in 1829 by Dr. Robbins, in the alpine region of the 
White Mountains of New Hampshire. 
Nore. ~Dr. Robbins designed these three species to appear in 
the contemplated Fora of New England, by Wm. Oakes, Esq., 
of Ipswich, Mass., a work which it is much to be regretted men 
not soon appear. 
No..172.  C. rostrata, Mx. 
C. zanthophysa, Wahl. var. nana et minor, D. 
C. folliculata. Mon. Cyp. Tor. p. 419. 
Spicis distinctis ; staminifera brevi solitaria sessili ; pistilliferis 
duabus vel ternis axillaribus subglobosis flavescentibus superiore 
sessili, inferiore subsessili ; fructibus in capite aggregatis erectis 
et subdivergentibus oblongo-conicis longissime rostratis, squama 
ovato-oblonga subacuta duplo longioribus. 
Culm about a foot high, few leafed, a long bract under the low- 
est spike, erect, stiff, with two or sometimes three sessile or nearly. 
sessile pistillate spikes of a globular or capitate form, fruit small, 
conic, very long beaked, little inflated at the base ; pistillate scale 
ovate, oblong, obtusish, not half the length of the fruit. Grows 
at the base of the White Mountains.— Oakes. Also in Canada 
or the northern regions. 
Dr. Torrey has ascertained by an examination of the plants 
collected by Michaux, that his: plant is the dwarf variety, as it 
has been called, of C. zanthophysa, Wahl. This I had supposed 
the truth ; but a comparison of fhe specimens found by Mr. Oakes 
on the White Mountains, with others from Canada, and with the 
ein of Michaux, has led me to conclude that the plant 
of Mich. is wholly distinct. It is so constant in its character that 
I had already described it as a fixed variety, in Vol. x1v, p. 353, 
of this Journal, and given a figure of it in Tab. D, fig. 15, 
