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spikelets in a quite contracted panicle or spike almost 

 obverse-conical ; their bracts rigid, the upper spreading ; 

 their sepals keeled, about as long as the petals and some- 

 what pink ; stigmas red, hardly longer than the style ; 

 fruit trigonous-ellipsoid. !L. tenax. 



Staminate spikelets few, comparatively large. 



Rather tall ; stems undivided, pale-green, very slender, some- 

 what shining ; leaf-stalks very closely clasping, terminated 

 by a soon seceding tender membrane ; leaves quite rudi- 

 mentary ; staminate spikelets almost ellipsoid, generally 

 bent downward, their stalks grey or whitish from a very 

 short vestiture ; pistillate spikelets almost spicate ; floral 

 bracts dark-brown, of either kinds of spikelets glabrous ; 

 sepals and petals minute ; stamens very short ; stigmas 

 hardly longer than the style ; fruit minute. 



L. Brownii. 



CAX.OSTROFHUS. 



1918. Spikelets axillary. 



Seldom tall ; branches thin ; leaves minute, setular, very 

 spreading ; leaf-stalks laxly clasping, at the margin densely 

 beset with hairlets ; spikelets all solitary and sessile, the 

 staminate two- to four-flowered ; sepals and petals tender- 

 membranous, of about equal length ; styles disconnected ; 

 fruit minute, about as long as the persistent sepals and 

 petals, brownish, without any stalklet. Figure 124. 



C. lateriflorus. 

 Spikelets terminal. 



Never tall ; branches thin, from an extremely short vestiture 

 grey ; leaf -stalks closely clasping ; leaves quite rudimen- 

 tary ; staminate spikelets quite small, laxly paniculated, 

 bearing several flowers ; sepals and petals three each, of 

 about equal length ; anthers on a very short filament, 

 erect ; pistillate spikelets comparatively large, solitary 

 or occasionally two to four together ; bracts brown, 

 shining, hardly pointed ; style undivided ; stigmas three ; 

 fruit very small, hard, longer than the sepals and petals, 

 provided with a short thick stalklet, pale, angular around 

 the middle. C. fastigiatus. 



X.EFXDOBOX.US. 



1919. Floral bracts hardly fringed, quite pointless or only 



minutely pointed. 



Never tall ; stems either straight or somewhat flexuous ; 

 spikelets capitular, comparatively small, occasionally 

 two ; sepals ciliolated ; petals three ; anthers emerging ; 

 style very thin ; fruit very small. L. drapetocoleus. 



