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Culm about a foot high, triquetrous, leafy at the base ; leaves 

 shorter than the culm, linear-lanceolate, scabrous on the edge ; bracts 

 leafy, surpassing the culm, with short sheaths ; staminate spike single, 

 erect, an inch long, with ovate and tawny scales, white on the edge ; 

 stigmas three ; pistillate spikes 1 — 3, oblong, loose-flowered, upper 

 one or two with inclosed peduncles, the lowest often with a long pe- 

 duncle projecting from the sheath, erect; fruit ovate, or subglobose, 

 obtuse, subtriquetrous, glabrous, nerved, with an entire or subbifid 

 orifice ; pistillate scale ovale, subacute, tawny with a green keel, and 

 white edge. Color of the plant a light grefen. This species should 

 be placed in the section with Cplantaginea. 



Found near Boston, by Dr. C. Pickering, and supposed to be in- 

 troduced from Europe. This is a beautiful species, common in Eu- 

 rope, and finely depicted by Schkuhr. 



No. 129, C. Grayana, Dewey. 

 Tab. S. fig. 59. 



Spicis dislinctis ; spica staminifera solitaria oblonga ; spicis fructi- 

 feris tristigmaticis subbinis oblongo-cylindraceis sublaxifloris exserie 

 pedunculaiis ; fructibus ovato-oblongis subinflatis subtriquetris obtu- 

 sis vel acutiusculis ore integris, squama oblonga obtusa longioribus. 



Culm 6 — 16 inches high, triquetrous, erect, striate, scabrous 

 above ; leaves linear-lanceolate, sheathing towards the base, scabrous 

 and often longer than the culm ; bracts linear-lanceolate, longer than 

 the spikes ; staminate spike single, erect, cylindrical, subtriquetrous, 

 with scales oblong or obovate and oblong, tawny on the back and 

 white on the edge ; stigmas three ; pistillate spikes two, sometimes one, 

 oblong, near or subdistant, rather loose-flowered, exsertly pedunculate ; 

 fruit ovate-oblong, roundish-triquetrous, subventricose, smooth, gla 

 brous, slightly tapering at either end, obtuse and entire at the ori- 

 fice ; pistillate scale ovate-oblong, rather obtuse, sometimes obovate 

 and obtuse, shorter than the fruit, white on the edge, brown on the 

 back with a green keel. Color of the plant a glaucous green. This 

 species belongs in the section with C. miliacea. 



Found in 1832 in a sphagnous swamp, near Utica, N. Y., by Dr. 

 A. Gray, an active botanist, after whom it is named. It is said lo 

 have been found in Cedar swamp, N. J. It is a beautiful species, 

 and has a remote resemblance to C. livida, Wabl., which grows two 

 or three inches high in the marshes of Lapland. 



