Cancogrnphij. 261 



hit pubescent in its younger state, obtuse ; pistillate scale 

 ovate, acuminate, while on the margin, green on the keel^ 

 nearly as long as the fruit, colour of the plant rather a light 

 green. 



Flowers in May. Grows on rrioist upland meadows and 

 hills. Phillipstown, N. Y. — Dr. Barratt. In the meadows 

 south of Newburgh, N. Y with C. sqiiarrosa, C. granulari- 

 oides, C. pubescens — common, like the preceding species, 

 but not abundant in Berkshire county. 



Schk. has given two figs, of this plant, arid also of the cap- 

 sules, but the varieties of this species are not likely to lead to 

 mistakes. Though it is a very distinct species, it may before 

 maturity be confounded with C. virescens, because its young 

 fruit is pubescent. Its shorter, thicker spikes, and its longer, 

 retrorsely pubescent leaves, easily distinguish it, even before 

 its fruit becomes glabrous, from that species. 



45. C. vestita. Willd. 



Muh., Pursh, Katon, Pers. 106, & Ell. 

 Schk. tab. Bbbb fig. 182. 



Spica slamenifera solitaria, vel binis, cylindriacea oblotlga, 

 suprema elongata pedunculata ; spicis fructiferis tristigniaticis 

 binis ovatb-obldngis sessihbus subapproximatis bracteatis, sae- 

 pe superne stameniferis ; fructibus ovatis oblongis subtrique- 

 trls nervosis brevi-rostratis bifidis pubescentibus, squama ova- 

 to-oblonga acutiuscula submucronata paulo longioribus. 



Culm 18 — 30 inches high, acutely triangular, scabrous 

 above, striate ; leaves linear-lanceolate, striate, rough, short- 

 er than the culm, abbreviated below ; staminate spike one,^ 

 sometimes two, oblong, cylindric — the highest long, large, and 

 pedunculate — the lowest sessile and short; staminate scale 

 oblong, tawny, white and membranaceous on the margin ; 

 stigmas three, sometimes two according to Muh., pistillate 

 spikes 2 — 3, sessile, oblong, cylindric, about half an inch long, 

 often with a few staminate florets at the apex, supported by 

 long, leafy bracts shorter than the culm ■, fruit ovate-oblong, 

 shortly beaked, bifid, nerved, somewhat three-sided, pubes- 

 cent ; pistillate scale ovate-oblong, submucronate, tawny, 

 green on the keel, and a little shorter than the fruit. 



Flowers in May. Inhabits wet and marshy situations, tt 

 has not been found in Berkshire county — common on Gon- 

 necticut river, in Massachusetts and Connecticut — Deerfield, 

 Mr Hitchcock — Pennsylvania, 



