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y. Caespitosus; culmis pluribus tenerrimis (14 — 8 poll. 
long.) foliisque perangustis; umbella simplici depauperata, 6 
— 3-radiata; involuero 3—4-phyllo; radiis erectis valde in- 
aequalibus, longioribus 1 — 1 !/; - pollicar.; capitulis majuseu- 
lis, diam. 3 —5 lin, triangularibus v. globosis; spiculis sub 
15-Noris; squamis viridulo- pallidis v. ferrugineis. au 
C. cyrtolepis Torr. Hook. in Torr. Cyper. p. 436. — 
Drumm. pl. texan. no. 450. 
Texas. 
d. Arenicola; eulmis subsolitariis 1/4 — 1 !/, ped. alt. 
basi infima tuberascentibus; umbella simpliei pauciradiata, ra- 
diis sessilibus v. breviter peduneulatis, majoribus !/, — 3, 
poll. long. ; vapitulis e multis parvis compositis magnis, 4 — 
6 lin. erassis; spieulis 10 — 20- floris; squamis ferrugineis, 
carina viridibus, nervis prominulis. 
C. arenicola Steud. I. c. 51. — C. calcaratus N ab E. 
herb, — Vinzent, texan. Pfl. no. 26. 
'Texas. 
142. €. reflexus Vahl. 
Rhizomate obliquo brevi v. elongato repente, aut sub- 
bulboso - contraeto; culmis subsolitariis rigidis strictis 1 — 3 
ped. long. v. multo brevioribus, versus apicem triangulis, in- 
ferne obsolete angulatis non raro leviter compressis, infima 
basi tuberascentibus; foliis eulmo brevioribus (rariss. sublon- 
gioribus) remotiusculis tenacibus planis complicatisve, margi- 
nibus superne spinuloso-dentatis; floralibus 3 — 4 erecto- 
patulis reflexisve (v. raro omnibus erectis) valde inaequalibus, 
infimo ad 4 — 5 poll. longo; capitulis glomerato - compositis 
v. simplicibus, globosis polystachyis, non raro magnitudine 
Cerasi minoris, v. solitariis sessilibus v. pluribus minoribus 
peduneulatis, centrali sessili; pedunculis erectis !/, — 1 poll. 
