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MONOECIA, TRIANDRIA. 
miliacea. 
ripana« 
ternate, oblong-rostrate, bifid, twice the length 
of the ovate-miicronate scale . — WillcL 
C. debilis, Mich. 
C. tenuis, Rudge in Lin. trans. t. 7. p, 79. 
Icon. Schk. Car. t. Ddd. et Aaaa. f. 124. 
Zigzag ‘Spiked Sedge. 
In the sandy, low wet grounds of Jersey and the Neck. Pe- 
rennial. June. 
* * * Male spike solitary, female ones pedunculate, sheaths 
almost none. 
30. C. feminine spikes three, pedunculate, 8-flow- 
ered, upper ones sessile ; fruit ovate-triquet- 
rous, shortly rostrate, entire at the mouth, 
longer than the obiong-emarginate aristate 
scale. — Willd. 
Icon. Schk. Car. t. Ooo. f. 151. 
Millet Sedge. 
In the shady woods bordering the Wissahickon. Perennial. 
July. 
31. C. masculine spikes four, feminine two, erect, 
cylindrical, pedunculated ; fruit oblong, many- 
nerved, rostrate, bifurcated, longer than the 
oblong-mucronate scale. — Willd. 
C. lacustris, Willd. and Pursh. 
Strand Carex. 
A very large species, every where common on the shores 
of the Delaware. Perennial. June. 
Mr. Collins, who has paid very close attention to this diffi- 
cult genus, informs me, that all the species enumerated by Dr. 
Muhlenberg, with the exception perhaps of six or eight, grow 
within ten miles of Philadelphia. The above are all the species 
I have yet met with. 
348. COMPTONIA. Gaertner. {Amentacece.') 
Masc. Ament cylindric; scales 1 -flowered; 
corolla none. Stamina 3 or 4, filaments 
simple. Fem. Ament ovate. Calix at 
