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41. C. BLEPHAROPHORA, {sjj. nov.) ; spica mascula solitaria, 

 erecta ; feraineis ternis vel quaternis, oblongo-cylindraceis, nu- 

 tantibus ; stigmatibiis tribus ; perigyniis ovatis, rosiratis, biden- 

 tatis, glumam ciliolatam, obtusiusculam, aequantibus ; foliis 

 bracteisque ciliatis. 



Culm 12 — 18 inches in height, smooth and slender, leafy at the base. 

 Leaves linear, much shorter than the culm, ciliate, and with the sheaths 

 pubescent on the nerves. Bractere minute, squamaceous, not sheath- 

 ing the peduncles, cuspidate, with the cusps somewhat hispidly ciliate ; 

 the lower one nearly an inch in length. Stam. spike oblong, ob- 

 scurely trigonous, on an erect peduncle about an inch long. Glumes 

 oblong, membranaceous. Pist. spikes 3 — 4, oblong-cylindric, rather 

 densely flowered, on filiform, nodding peduncles about their own 

 length; the upper spikes often more or less sterile (not staminiferous), 

 the lowest sometimes remote. Perigynium (fruit) ovate, obsoletely 

 triquetrous when young, smooth, attenuated into a straight beak nearly 

 as long as itself; orifice bidentate. Glumes ovate, rather obtuse, one- 

 nerved, membranaceous, ciliate, equalling the fruit. Caryopsis tri- 

 quetrous. 



Hab. In moist shady places, Bridgewater, Oneida county, 

 in company with C.aurea and C.jiava. Flowers in June. 



Obs. This species should be placed between C. sylvatica 

 and C. miliacea. It somewhat resembles C. patula, De Cand. 

 Syn. Fl. Gall. p. 144 ; which differs, however, in having folia- 

 ceous bracteae, trigonous fruit, and naked glumes. 



42. C. ARisTATA, R. Brown, in Rich. App. Frankl. Jour. 

 p. 36. C. atherodes, Spreng. Sysl. III. p. 828. 



Watertown, Jefferson county. Dr. Crawe. 



Our plant agrees entirely with specimens in the herbarium 

 of Dr. Torrey, collected at Cumberland House, &c. by Dr. 

 Richardson. 



43. C. HiTCHCOCKiANA, Dcwey, Caricog. I. c. X. p. 274, 

 tab. E.Jig. 17. 



