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tapering to a long, slender summit, rough on the margins and the 
triangular apex, shorter than the stem, their sheaths fibrous- 
“netted. Bracts leafy, the lowest a little longer than the stem, the 
succeeding gradually shorter. Spike 5-6 in. long, of 5-6 approx- 
imate spikelets; the male 1-3, 4-2 in. long, linear; the rest fe- 
male or male at top, cylindrical, narrowed and loosely flowered at 
base, 13-2 in. long, 2 lines broad, exsertly peduncled, ascending, 
or the lowest a little remote and somewhat nodding. Peduncles 
3-1 in. Jong. Scales three-nerved, the male oblanceolate ab- 
ruptly acute, the female purple, with pale keel, acute or more or 
less roughly awned, longer than the perigynia. Perigynia straw- 
colored, 14 lines long, 4 line broad, obovate, oblong or ovate- 
acuminate, short-beaked, the orifice of the beak entire, few nerved, 
plano-convex, sparingly toothed on the upper margins. Nut 
pale chestnut, obtuse, indented on the margins, half as long as 
_blance to C. salina, Wahl. It differs from it in the fibrous reti- 
culation of the sheaths of the leaves. The lowest spikelet is more 
distant on a longer peduncle and somewhat nodding. If, upon a 
more complete knowledge of C. spiculosa, the Medford plant 
C. vulgaris, Fries. 
CaREx HISPIDA, Willd. (C. echinata, Desf. Boott.) Glauca. 
Rhizomate crasso, lignoso, squamis fuscis imbricatis tecto, Culmo 
valido, obtusangulo, levi, basi plurifoliato, 2-6 ped.alto. Foliis 3-6 
in. latis, sursum longe attenuatis, culmo brevioribus, leevibus, cari- 
hatis, lateribus recurvatis, marginibus et carina dentatis, basi fuscis 
complicatis, vaginis antice sepe reticulato-fissis, fibris coloratis. 
Bractea infima plerumque culmo longiore evaginata, vel vagina 
2-3 poll. longa predita. Spica 9-18 poll. longa e spiculis 4-10 
cylindricis, densifloris, arrectis; masculis 3-6, 1-3} poll. longis, 
Sracilibus, contiguis, sessilibus vel breve pedunculatis ; infe- 
rioribus nunc ternatis; reliquis femineis, vel superioribus supra 
Plus minus masculis, 2-4 poll. longis, 34 lin. latis; singulis vel 
mediis geminatis vel ternatis (una earum omnino vel apice mas- 
cula); extremis singulis; inferioribus nunc remotis, raro basi 
attenuatis, nutantibus, pedunculatis. Pedunculis plerumque 
