Carwography. 141 
Culm about a foot high, triquetrous, leafy at the base; leaves 
shorter than the culm, linear-lanceolate, scabrous on the edge ; bracts 
leafy, surpassing the culm, with short sheaths ; staminate spike single, 
erect, an inch long, with ovate and tawny scales, white on the edge ; 
stigmas three ; pistillate spikes 1—3, oblong, loose-flowered, upper 
one or two with inclosed peduncles, the lowest often with a long pe- 
duncle projecting from the sheath, erect; fruit ovate, or subglobose, 
obtuse, subtriquetrous, glabrous, nerved, with an entire or subbifid 
orifice ; pistillate scale ovate, subacute, tawny with a green keel, and 
white edge. Color of the plant a light green. This species should 
be placed in the section with C. plantaginea. 
Found near Boston, by Dr. C. Pickering, and supposed to be in- 
troduced from Europe. ‘This is a beautiful species, common in Eu- 
rope, and finely depicted by Schkuhr.. 
No. 129, C. Grayana, Dewey. 
fig. 59. 
Spicis distinctis ; spica staminifera solitaria oblonga ; spicis fructi- 
_ feris tristigmaticis subbinis oblongo-cylindraceis sublaxifloris exserte 
pedunculatis ; fructibus ovato-oblongis subinflatis subtriquetris obtu- 
sis vel acutiusculis ore integris, squama oblonga obtusa longioribus. 
Culm 6—16 inches high, triquetrous, erect, striate, scabrous 
above ; leaves linear-lanceolate, sheathing towards the base, scabrous 
and often longer than the culm; bracts linear-lanceolate, longer than 
the spikes; staminate spike single, erect, cylindrical, subtriquetrous, 
with scales oblong or obovate and oblong, tawny on the back and 
white on the edge; stigmas three; pistillate spikes two, sesonataien —_ 
oblong, near or subdistant, rather loose-flowere d, exsertly 
fruit ovate-oblong, roundish-triquetrous, subventricose, smooth, gla 
brous, slightly tapering at either end, obtuse and entire at the ori- 
fice ; pistillate scale ovate-oblong, rather obtuse, sometimes obovate 
and obtuse, shorter than the fruit, white on the edge, brown on the 
back with a green keel. Color of the plant a glaucous green. This 
species belongs in the section with C. miliacea. 
Found in 1832 in a sphagnous swamp, near Utica, N. Y., by Dr. 
A. Gray, an active botanist, after whom it is named. It is said to 
have been found in Cedar swamp, N. J. It is a beautiful species, 
and has a remote resemblance to C. livida, Wahl., which grows two 
or three inches high in the marshes of Lapland. 
