A7B, Caricography. 
gine subscabris nervosis bifidis, divergentibus, squama ovato- 
lanceolata subduplo longioribus. 
Culm 1—3 feet high, acutely triquetrous, quite scabrous 
above, hollowed on the sides; leaves lanceolate, rather 
broad, nerved, rough on the edges, often long as the culm, 
with striate sheaths ; spike decompound, from one to three 
inches long, composed of several oblong spikelets formed ot 
many small ones closely aggregated; spikelets staminate 
above, numerous, aggregated, bracteate, becoming yellow, 
with a large and long bract often supporting the lower spike- 
let; staminate scale lanceolate ; stigmas two; fruit ovate- 
lanceolate, convex and gibbous at the base, tapering and pla- 
no-convex above and subscabrous, nerved, bidentate, gla- 
brous ; pistillate scale ovate, acuminate, or ovate lanceolate, 
yellowish, little more than half the length of the fruit. Co- 
four of the plant varies from deep to yellowish green. 
Flowers in May—grows in wet soil and about marshes; 
common. 
This plant greatly resembles C. vulpina, L.; but diflers 
in its fruit, and scale, and spike. 
78. C. siccata. (Mihi.) 
Am. Journ. Vol. X. tab. F. fig. 18. 
Spica composita distigmatica ; spicula terminali androgy- 
na superne staminifera obtusa ; spiculis inferis subquater- 
nis staminiferis ovatis acutiusculis, infime sepa inferne fruc- 
tifera cum bractea squamosa oblongo-lanceolata, omnibus 
ovatis acutiusculis approximatis ; fructibus ovato-lanceolatis 
acuminatis compressis margine scabris bifidis nervosis, squa- 
mam ovato-lanceolatam subwquantibus. 
Culm 12—18 inches high, triquetrous, small, stiff, scabrous 
above ; leaves linear, narrow, triquetrous at the end, shorter 
than the culm, scabrous, sheathing towards the base ; spike 
compound, stigmas two, spikelets three to seven, ovate, 
somewhat acute except the highest, sessile, approximate, 
tawny; the highest androgynous, staminate above; the 
lower smaller, staminate ; the lowest sometimes pistillate be- 
low, and supported by an ovate-lanceolate, tawny scale or 
bract, and sometimes rather remote ; fruit ovate-lanceolate, 
compressed, bifid, nerved, acuminate, glabrous, with a sca- 
brous margin ; staminate scale ovate, lanceolate, tawny ; pis- 
fillate scale like the staminate, about equal to the length of the 
