TMAXDRIA M0X0GYX1A Si 



Ctlim 2lo 3, and sometimes 4 feel long, often decumbent, triangular, sulcate, 

 smooth, leafy. Leaves linear-lanceolate, shorter than the culm. fyikelets usual- 

 W 5 or 6, occasionally 8or 10 ' sometimes rather distant, at first sonaewhal oval, at 

 length obovold, the base being contracted and composed of apprrssed staminate 

 glumes, finally subglobose. Bracts lanceolate, shorter than the spikelets. (Humes 

 lanec-cvate, acute, scarious, often silvery white, with a green keel, shorter than 

 the fruit. Fruit ovate, plano-convex, striate or nerved, with a bldentate beak; 

 margin distinctly but not broadly winged, serrulate. 

 flub. Meadows, and open woodbinds: frequent. /'/.May. i ■ V.July. 



Obs. This species is nearly allied to the preceding. 



13, C. stellulata, Gooden. var. sdrpoides. Spikelets 3, rather 

 remote, the uppermost one clavate, the others ovoid, obtuse ; lruii ovate, 

 often subcordate, plano-convex, somewhat spreading, but not reflexed. 

 serrulate on the margin, longer than the ovate glume. 

 C, sdrpoides, Schk. Willd. Sp. 4. p 237. Per*. Syn. 2. p. 638- 

 Muhl. Catal.p. 83. Ejttsd. Cram. p. 285. Pvrsh, Am. \. p. 37. 

 {excl. Syn. Mx.) JSTutt. Gen. 2. p. 201. Ell. Sk. 2. p. 532. Derw. 

 Carte, in Sill. Journ. 8. p. 96. (excl. Syn. Mx.) Schvf. & Torr. 

 Monogr.p. 317. (excl. Syn. Mx.) Torr. Comp. p. 339. Beck, Bot. 

 p. 435. Eat. Man. p. 70. 

 C. stellulata 1 BigeL Boat. p. 337, 

 Star-lxks Cakex, Scirpus-like Variety. 



Cuba erect, 6 to 12 inches high, triquetrous and slightly scabrous above, rather 

 terete below, leafy towards the base. Leaves narrow, linear, erect, glaucous, 

 somewhat scabrous, generally longer lhan the culm, the lower ones abbrevial I. 

 Spikelets mostly 3, (sometimes 2, rarely -1 or 5,) the lowest supp rted by a bract 

 Longer than the spikelet ; the uppermost one with numerous staminate glumes at 

 base, which give it a tapering club-shaped appearance. Staminate glumes ovate, 

 rather obtuse : Pistillate glumes ovate, acute. Fruit ovate, often cordate at bast-, 

 terminating in a short, bifid, scabrous beak, erect, or finally spreading nearly hori- 

 zontally. 



Hub. Woodlands, and wet meadows : frequent Fl. May. Fr. July. 



Obit. This has generally been considered distinct from C. stellulata; though 

 Aluldenberg, and others, doubled whether it were specifically so. Dr. Gray, 

 {Gram, et Cyper. 2. 7io. 152.) makes them synonymous. To me it appeare to con- 

 stitute a well marked variety— comparing it with the C. stellulata, in Dr. Gray's 

 work,— and other specimens, received from different correspondents. The true 

 £. stellulata, as I understand it, has not yet been found in Chester County. 



Tjjf After the preceding remarks were in type, and ready fir the press, I as- 

 certained that the genuine C. stellulata was plentiful in the meadows about Down" 

 klgtown, and probably In other parts of the County. The Spikelets are generally 

 4 in number, the bract at the lowest one often inconspicuous \ fruit broadish-orate 

 •preading, and finally somewhat reflexed. The whole plant is larger than the 

 xar. sdrpoides, being from 12 to 18 inches high. In most other respects they 

 closely resemble each other. 



14. C. bromotdes, Schk. Spikelets 4 to 6, oblong, erect, the up- 

 permost one pistillate at summit, the others either wholly pistillate, or 

 androgynous with staminate glumes both above and below ; fruit crec^ 

 lanceolate, acuminate, serrulate on the margin, longer than the lancet, 

 late glume. Beck, Bot. p. 431. Spbcis. Gray, Gram. 2. no. 14*, 



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