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thove bracteate ; spikes 4 or 5 to 6, cylindric, rather slender for their 
length ; staminate spikes 2-3, sessile, the lowest bracteate; pistillate 
spikes 1-4, commonly 2-3, upper staminate above and tapering upward 
and sessile; the lower longer and short-pedicellate, more loose-flowered 
below ; stigmas 2; fruit oval or ovate, subacute, short-rostrate orifice en- 
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‘ooden. The opinion of later botanists is that C. angustata is clearly 
distinct from the C. stricta, Good. 
8 Dr. Boott introduced the older name, C. Magellanica, Lam., to the 
exclusion of C. irrigua, Smith, and so long current, it is to be regretted 
@ did not continue the work.and make the change in other cases. Then 
C. tenella, Ehrht. would have banished @, tenella, Schk., even though © 
Schk, himself had not already expunged it, as a synonym of C, loliacea, 
Linn.: so of some others. 
No, 296. C, juncea, Willd., Syst. Veg. 1826. : 
— miser, Buckley ;’ Sill. xlviii, 141, 1845, and xxix, 346, 1860. 
Pedunculate, long and setaceous-bracteate; stigmas 3; fruit slender, Jan- 
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No. 297. ©. rotundata, Wahl. 1803. 
— globularis, Schk., No. 111, fig. 93. 
' For his description see this Journal, xlv, 1843. 
