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41. C. BLEPHAROPHORA, (sp. nov.) ; spica mascula solitaria, 
erecta ; femineis ternis vel quaternis, oblongo-cylindraceis, nu- 
tantibus ; stigmatibus tribus ; perigyniis ovatis, rosiratis, biden- 
tatis, glumam ciliolatam, obtusiusculam, aequantibus ; foliis 
bracteisque ciliatis. 
Culm 12 — IS inches in height, smooth and slender, leafy at the base* 
Leaves linear, much shorter than the culm, ciliate, and with the sheaths 
pubescent on the nerv'es. Bractece minute, squamaceous, not sheath- 
ing the peduncles, cuspidate, with the cusps somewhat hispidly cihate ; 
the lower one nearly an inch in length. Stam. spike oblong, ob- 
scurely trigonous, on an erect peduncle about an inch long. Glumes 
oblong, membranaceous. Pist. spikes 3 — 4, oblong-cylindric, rather 
densely flowered, on filiform, nodding peduncles about their own 
length; the upper spikes often more or less sterile (not staminiferous), 
the lowest sometimes remote. Perigynium (fruit) ovate, obsoletely 
triquetrous when young, smooth, attenuated into a straight beak nearly 
as long as itself; orifice bidentate. Glumes ovate, rather obtuse, one- 
nerved, membranaceous, ciliate, equalling the fruit. Caryopsis tri- 
quetrous. 
Hab. In moist shady places, Bridgewater, Oneida county, 
in company with C.aurea and C.fiava. Flowers in June. 
Obs. This species should be placed between C. sylvatica 
and C. miliacea. It somewhat resembles C. patula, De Cand. 
Syn. Fl. Gall. p. 144 ; which differs, however, in having folia- 
ceous bracteae, trigonous fruit, and naked glumes. 
42. C. ARisTATA, R. Brown, in Rich. App. Frankl. Jour. 
p. 36. C. atherodes, Spreng, Syst. III. p. 828. 
Watertown, Jefferson county, Dr. Crawe. 
Our plant agrees entirely with specimens in the herbarium 
of Dr. Torrey, collected at Cumberland House, &c. by Dr. 
Richardson. 
43. C. HiTCHCocKiANA, JDcwey, Caricog. I. c. X. p. 274, 
lab. E.fig. 17. 
