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appearance ; tho others on short peduncles, with each a lance-linear foliaceous 

 bract at base. Staminate glumes lance-oblong, rather acute. Pistillate glumes 

 ovat«, abruptly acuminate, about as Long as the fruit* FYuit somewhat crowded^ 

 obscurely triangular, obtuse, nerved, slightly pubescent when young, but glabrous 

 at maturity, yellowish green. Seed triquetrous. 

 Hub, Moist meadows, and borders of woods : common. Fl. May. JFV. July. 



Obs. This greatly resembles the preceding ; Wit may be at once distinguished 

 by its smooth fruit, shorter spikelcts, and more obvious pubescence. 



17. C. ghacjllima, Schxv. Spikclets about 4, long-linear, slender, 

 rather loose-flowered, distant, nodding, on filiform peduncles ; the up- 

 permost one staminate below, the others all pistillate ; fruit oblong, sub- 

 triquetrous, obtuse, smooth, longer than the oblong mucronate glume. 

 Dew. Cane, in Sill. Journ. 8. p. 98. Icox, Vol. 11. tab. 2. f. 28. 

 (indifferent.) Spbcih. Gray, Gra?n.2.no.\6l. 



C. digitalis. Schw. & Torr. Jlfonogr. p. 324. Icox, tab. 27. /, 1. 

 (good.) Floral Cestr.fj.97. Torr. Comp % p. 340. Beck, Bot. /,.43G. 

 Not of mild. Pers. Pursh, Muhl. Ell. nor Eat. 

 Very slkxder Carex. 



Culm 18 inches t > 2 feet hhrh, slender bul generally erect, triancubr, somewhat 

 scabrous aboYir, snrtate, tmfp l.mrr* Uncar-lancuolate, scabr< us en the margin, 

 the upper ones equalling tho eulm, tho lower ones aWfel mn^-»^h purule sh . he 

 at the base of the culm. Spikelets generally -1 near the summit, (s »metimes an ad- 

 ditional lateral one,) slender and linear, often 2 inches long, nodding, on exscrted 

 filiform peduncles; about enc-thini of the terminal one pistillate above. Stamt* 

 note glumes imbricated, ovate-oblong, rather obtuse, white with a crecn keel 

 Pistillate t lumes alw ul half as long as the fruit, oval, with a short abruj.t point. 

 fYitit em.w.Ui, gU^htly nerved, ovoid-oblong, somewhat triangular, with a very 

 Short, obtuse, rather oblique bcah 1 . Seed. iri^uctruus. 

 Hab. Woodlands, and moist meadows : frequent- FT. tttfi Fr. July, 



Obs. Dr. Gray, with great probability, considers the C. digital is, of WiUfcXtfiKt. 

 <fcc. with which this lias been confoundod, as a variety of C. oligocarpa. 



18. C. Toiuieyaxa, Dew. SpikeleU, 4, oblong, linear, rather loose- 

 flowered, pedunculate, somewhat nodding and distant; the uppermost 

 one staminate below; fruit dbovoid-oblong, obscurely triangular, rather 

 acute at each end, about as long as the oblong aristate glume ; leaves 

 and sheaths pubescent. Beck, Bot. p. 436. Not of SeJkm Analvt. 

 lab. 



C. (anon.) no. 46, Muhl Gram. p. 25-1. 



C. aristata. Dew. Cdric. in SilL Journ. 7. p. 2V7. Irov. Dew. I c 



•y. tab. a. f. 1. 



C Davisii. Sekm. & Torr. Monogr. /,. 326. Gray, Gram. 2. Srs- 

 cim. no. li)i). Aot of Dewey, 

 Toiihkv's Cahbx. 



Culm l to 2 feet Wgh, triquetrous, slightly scabrous above, leafy. Leaves linear- 

 *nceolate,flai, striate, Bcabroua en the margin, slightly pubescent, upper ones a 

 mle onger than the culm ;sAsatts pubescent. Spiketeis commonly 4, about an 

 jnch or inch anU half long, linear-oblong, loose-flowered, rachis somewhat flexu- 

 n?J P< SS^ Sl T laT ' a lil "" eMerted - ■»«**."** ^«m*s Uwcaolata, acumi- 

 r Z !., , 't "f lanc< '-" 1 1,,,,L '- «*™«»"ta« in a scabrous a» n, »hich . fen 

 l>ro cct.a l.ttle beyond tho fruit. Fruit smoothish, nerved, somewhat i.dutcd 

 Jith a short be* subtly bifid a, the orifice, ^.ri,,^,, JES K *' 



Hob. Uw grounds along Brandywine.Pughtown: frequent. /■•/. \i: r r.,.. 

 0*s. First collected in Ch, «, r County in l£33t, by D. Tvkxsbxd, E, '. " ' 



