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Culms filiform, usually longer than the leaves; spikelets 
sender, lower on long filiform peduncles; glumes and 
pe ia as in C. comans, but broader á .. 29. C. cheesemanii. 
Pale-green ; culms slender ; spikelets short an ad often 
close together; perigynia ovoid, turgid, biconvex or 
nearly trigonous, smooth, not serrate .. e» +» 30. C. littoralis. 
+H Tall, stout or slender, from 14 to 3 feet or more. Leaves 
broad, 4 to 3 inch, flat or keeled, grassy. Male spikelets usually 
more than one (except in C. dissita). 
Stout or slender, 1 to 2 feet high; spikelets 4 to 8, long or 
short, 1 to 2 inches long by $ inch broad, male a 
usually solitary . . 91. C. dissita. 
Tall and slender, 2 to 3 feet high; iis often endi in 
fruit; spikelets 5 to 10, terminal 2 to 4 male, female 
slender, usually on long filiform peduncles, lower com- 
pound . 82. C. neesiana. 
Stout, 2 to 3 feet high ; ideis 5 to 6, two aine bel 
female very stout and broad, over j inch diameter; 
glumes and perigynia broadly ovate d . 83. C. longiculmis. 
Very ust and stout, culms often 4 feet high and a 
} inch broad. Spikelets 6 to 12, 2 to 4 inches long, very 
sini upper 2 to 4 male; glumes narrow; perigynia 
obovate-oblong, stipitate .. P .. 94. C. trifida. 
** Perigynia pubescent, not vada ua ripe, beak short. 
Small, 2 to 9 inches high, culms much shorter than the 
A .. 35. C. breviculmis. 
MS ua eni in aber flowering. large, smooth 
and turgid. 
Rhizome long, stout, creeping in sand, etc.; leaves glaucous, 
longer than the culms > .. 36. C. pumila. 
**** Perigynia glabrous, ug inde naue, narrowed into & 
long and slender sharply 2-toothed beak, spreading when ripe 
(except in C. vaccilans). 
Pale A ice tufted, 4 to 9 inches high; leaves flat ; 
s 3 to 6, crowded ; perigynia ovoid, suddenly 
ca into the beak, strongly nerved.. e 37. C. flava. 
Culms 1 to 2 feet high; leaves flat, harsh; spikelets 5 to 9, 
distant, 1 to 24 inches long, very slender, hardly 4 inch 
in B dismeer: perigynia fusiform, hardly os when 
.. 98. C. vaccilans. 
biis hi de 4 feet: Lai flat, ara ai 5 * 9, stout, 
eaten etian one often mixed with female flowers ; 
ia small, shortly fusiform, spreading — .. .. 99. C. forsteri. 
Culms $ to 4 feet; leaves flat, soft, green and grassy; spike- 
lets 3 to 5, pedunculate, nod ding, close together, or the 
lower alone distant; perigynia large, very narrow, fusi- 
form or triquetrous.. .. és ae 40. C. pseudo-cyperus. 
