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bracteatis ; fructibus ovatis triquetris subinflatis nervosis acuminatis 

 ad basin attenuatis Isevibus ore integris, squama ovata mucronata du- 

 plo longioribus. 



Culm one to two feet high, erect, triquetrous, smooth, leafy at 

 the base ; leaves linear-lanceolate, soft, with deep reddish brown 

 sheaths ; staminate spike one, half an inch long, cylindric, with ob- 

 long and obtuse scales deep reddish brown ; pistillate spikes 2 — 3, 

 short, ovate, few-flowered, upper one sessile and near the staminate, 

 with a short cuspidate bract ; the lower exsert-pedunculate, with a 

 striate sheath ending in a leafy bract ; fruit ovate, tapering at both 

 ends, scarcely rostrate, full of nerves, and with an ovate and mucro- 

 nate scale, reddish on the edge, green on the keel, and about half as 

 long as the fruit. 



Auburn, N.Y. ; in the herbarium of Dr. Torrey. It is between 

 C. plantaginea and C. oligocarpa. Grows in marshes, and flow- 

 ers early in the season. — Dr. Short. < 



No. 163. C. Qreeniana, Dewey. 



Tab. Bb. Fig. 89. 



Spica staminifera solitaria vel binis erecta ; spicis fructiferis tri- 

 stigmaticis oblongis bracteatis pedunculatis binis vel ternis oblongis ; 

 fructibus ovato-lanceolatis triquetris nervosis rostratis bifurcatis sub- 

 densifloris, squama ovato-cuspidata subaequantibus. 



Culm one to two feet high, triquetrous, scabrous above, leafy to- 

 wards the base ; staminate scale oblong and obtuse, tawny, white on 

 the edge ; pistillate spikes 2 — 3, with sheathed peduncles, the low- 

 est of the three long-exsertly pedunculate, with large and leafy 

 bracts ; fruit ovate and lanceolate, rostrate, smooth, nerved ; pistil- 

 late scale ovate, cuspidate, or mucronate, tawny, green on the keel ; 

 color of the plant light green. 



Found in the neighborhood of Boston, by B. D. Green ; descri- 

 bed from specimens in Dr. Torrey 's herbarium. 



No. 164. C. binervis, Smith. 

 Schk. Tab. Rrr. fig. 160. 



Spica staminifera solitaria erecta ; pistilliferis tribus tristigmaticis 

 cylindraceis, inferioribus exserte-pedunculatis ; fructibus ovatis ro- 

 tundis brevi-rostratis bicuspidatis leevibus binervosis, squama ovata 

 subacuta duplo longioribus. 



