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C.Jlava, \2S. patiila, Coss. et Germ. Fl. Paris, Ed. iii. 



C.flava^ var. minor. Towns. Journ, Bot. xix. i6i, v. s.; Bailey, 

 Bot. Gaz. xiii. 84 (1888). 



Staniinate spike usually short-stalked, or a very small pistil- 

 late spike at its base, pistillate spikes green, scattered, some of 

 them often radical, the lower ones peduncled, all densely flow- 

 ered, perigynium small, rounded below, beak shorter than the 

 body, straight or nearly so, bracts comparatively broad artd long, 

 spreading, leaves broad for the size of the plant which is low 

 (3 to 8 in.) and diffuse, and green in color. Europe, generally dis- 



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tributed, and Atco, New Jersey, Marthidale, introduced. Often 

 confounded with var. elatior. This is not the plant which com- 

 monly passes for var. CEderi (see var. cyperoides), but it is cer- 

 tainly the one so understood by the older botanists. I have not 

 been able to find Ehrhart's specimens, but the figure of CEder's 

 C. divisa, which is the starting-point of var. CEderi and which is 

 regarded by the Danish botanists as this plant (teste Lange, No- 



men. Fl. Dan. pp. 12 and 279 (1887)), is unequivocal, as is also 

 Wiildenow's excellent figure. (Mem. Acad. Roy. 1794). 

 Schkuhr's figure is less characteristic, but is, nevertheless, clearly 

 this plant. An excellent illustration of the transfer of the name 

 to another plant is afibrded by the English Botany. Its figure 

 of C. CEderi in 1801, is the plant under discussion, but its figure 

 so named in 1870 is var, cyperoides. Represented in America by 



Van GRAMINIS. 



Staminate spike short and sessile, pistillate spikes green, two 

 or three and contiguous, globular or short-oblong, sessile, perigy- 

 nium long-pointed but straight or nearly so, the beak often 

 rough, the bract leafy and usually divaricate, leaves compara- 

 tively broad, the plant low (4 to 10 in. high), erect, green. In 



grassy places, probably generally distributed in the Northeastern 

 States. A dwarfed and green form of the species, and is prob- 

 ably common. Specimens from Scotland closely resemble this 

 but several characters appear to separate them. 



Var. CYPEROIDES, Marsson, Fl. Neu-Vorpommern, 537 

 (1869), v. s. 



C. chry sites. Link, Hb. Berol. v. s. 



C. ffi^^r/, Syme, Eng. Bot. ed. iii. x. 157, t. 1674 (1870), 

 v. t, and most European botanists. 



