328 C, Dewey on Caricography. 
mit, sometimes 2 near the staminate and a third remote cylindric, rarely 
uite long exsertly-pedunculate, all leafy-bracteate and the lower bract 
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sheathing 
C. lupulina, Muh., vol. xi, p. 165, this Journal, 1826. 
var. gigantoidea, Dew. , 
Staminate spikes 1-3, often 2-3, sometimes 1 with stamens on one of 
two of the upper pistillate spikes, cylindric, erect and covered with long 
and large lanceolate scales, the upper quite long and the lower shorter 
and near; pistillate spikes 2-3, cylindric or oblong, large and thick, 
densely flowered, the lower short pedunculate; fruit ovate-lanceolate, 
more ventricose than the common plant, or slightly ovate-globose, au 
more like that of ©. gigantea. The achenium or seed very different from 
that of C. gigantea, and not like that of the common C. lupulina, which 
is too nodose in fig. 162, and too little nodose in fig. 279 on p. 95, No. 
232. 
The following differences need consideration, which are very obvious, 
as C. lupulina and this so named variety grow together and are abun- 
dant. The former rarely has more than one staminate spike, the latter 
very rarely has so few as one, and often three. 
Of the former the fruit is very long and nearly erect; and of the latter 
ae and somewhat shorter, as well as horizontal or even reflexed at 
e 
The spikes of the latter have less diameter, or about two-thirds the 
size of the former. : : 
_ The seed of the latter is mature early in August; that of the former 
ripe late in September on the same round; a d on the late maturing 
latter plant the seed is not developed beyond its small beginning, and 
will be abortive. : 
The achenia of the two are unlike; that of the former is triquetrous, 
with nodose projections on the middle of the three edges, and quite taper” 
ing 3-sided above and below; that of the latter is not thus knotted, and 
is shorter and Jess tapering or somewhat round-edged 
