444 MONOCOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 



inclusely pedunculate ; fruit oblong-ovate, acuminate-rostrate, inflat- 

 ed, bifurcate, longer than the lanceolate attenuate glume. 



HAH. Wet sandy soil. N. Eng. and N. J. June. Culm a foot 

 high, rather slender. Spikes pale straw colour. 



91. C. Indiata Schk. : gterile spikes 3 ; fertile 2, oblong-cylindrical, 

 rather loose, exsertly pedunculate and somewhat nodding, distant ; 

 fruit ovate-globose, inflated, erect, smooth, costate, rostrate-acumi- 

 nate, orifice bifid, twice as long as the lanceolate glume. 



HAB. Wet grounds. N. Y. Mass. Penn. Culm 1824 inchea 

 high, slender, smooth. Fertile spikes remote, few-flowered. 



92. C. pellita Muhl. : sterile spikes 2, oblong ; fertile 2, cylindrical, 

 remote, erect, upper one sessile ; fruit ovate, subtriquetrous, short- 

 rostrate, hairy, bicuspidate, equal to the oblong awned glume. 



HAB. Wet grounds. Can. to Penn. May. Culm 21-2 feet 

 high. Leaves rigid, flat, long. 



93. C. lacustris Willd. : sterile spikes about 4 ; fertile 23, erect, 

 oblong-cylindrical, short pedunculate ; fruit oblong, many-nerved, sub- 

 rostrate, smooth, bifurcate, somewhat longer than the oblong mucron- 

 ate glume. 



HAB. Swamps, &c. Can. to Car. June. Culm 3 5 feet high. 

 1. cares broad. Fruit brown. 



94. C. longirostris Schw. <$ Torr. : sterile spikes 3, short ; fertile 

 23, cylindrical, loose, at length pendulous, long-pedunculate, sub- 

 distant; fruit ovate, subglobose at the base, smooth, bifid, rostrum 

 very long, longer than the lanceolate glume. 



HAB. Wet meadows. N. Eng. W. to Mich. Gray. Culm 2 

 feet high. Fertile spikes on filiform exsert peduncles. 



