57. C. Novoe-JLnglice, Schw. Saddle Mount and Ashfield.
— collecta, D ., is a taller variety ; meadows on hills.
Group 11. Spikes exsertly pedunculate.
58. C. plantaginea, Lam. Plantain-leafed Sedge. Grows
in light soil, along hedges and in open woods. The leaves an
inch wide and radical, are strongly ribbed, like plantain leaves,
and live through the winter, spread out on the ground. From the
root spring several leafless culms, brownish, with sheaths round the
flower, stalks ending in a short bract-like leaf; not abundant; May.
59. C. anceps, Muhl. Fields and woods.
— plantaginea, Muhl. Do.
60. C. blanda, D. Moist meadows.
— conoidea, Muhl., C. anceps, Tor. tc Mon. Cyp.”
61. C. conoidea, Schk. Moist meadows.
— tetanica, Schw. and Tor.
62. C. granularis, Muhl. Meadows and pastures.
63. C. tetanica, Schk. Meadows j^Stockbridge.
64. C. oligocarpa, Schk. Moist, open woods.
— digitalis, Schw. and Tor.
65. C. laxijlora, Lam. Meadows.
66. C. Hitchcockiana, D . Saddle Mount; borders of fields;
abounds in New York and Kentucky.
67. C. binervis, Sm. Near Boston^ B. D. Greene, Esq.
68. C. Greenii, D. In honor of B. D. Greene, Esq., who
discovered it near Boston.
69. C. jlexuosa, Schk. Wet places.
70. C. sylvatica, Huds. Moist open woods.
71. C. scabrata, Schw. Beside brooks,.
72. C. xanthophysa, Wahl. Mountain swamps.
— folliculata, L. Dr. Gray.
73. C. setifolia, D ., C. alba, L ., var. setifolia, D. Woods.
74. C. miliaris, l x . , C. Oakesiana, D. Tewksbury Pond.
Group 12. Pistillate spikes pedunculate, and scarcely
sheathed.
75. C. miliacea, Muhl. Moist meadows.
76. C. hystericina, Willd. Marshy places.
77. C. pseudo-cyperus, L. The culm ends in 1 barren spike,
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small and slender ; 3 fertile spikes, long, cylindric, pendulous,
and densely flowered, with long stifF leaves directly under the
spikes, and long leaves rough on their edges towards the ro o t;
color yellowish-green ; in dense tufts, beside ponds or slow
streams.
78.
79.
80.
C. limosa, L. Marshes in Stockbridge, Becket, &c.
var. irrigua, Wahl. Do.
rarijlora, Wahl. Do. Becket.
livida, Wahl. Do. do.
oblonga, Wahl. Do. do.
C. pallescens, L. Meadows dry or moist.
C. umbellata, Schk. Dry fields,
var. vicina, D. Do.
D. Staminate spikes 2 or more.
Group 13. Pistillate spikes sessile or pedunculate, and
sometimes staminate at their summit.
81. C. trichocarpa, Muhl. Beside slow streams,
var. turbinata, D. Ponds.
82. C. filiformis, Good. Marshes ; rush-like leaves.
83. C. pellita, Muhl. Do. leaves flat.
84. C. lacustris, Willd. Marshes and ponds.
85. C. retrorsa, Schw. Pondholes.
86. C. Schweinitzii, D. Wet places ; sandy.
87. C. vesicaria, L. Marshes.
88. C. ampullacea, Good. Marshes.
89. C. bullata, Schk. Beside marshes,
var. cylindracea, D. Do.
90. C. longirostris, Torrey. Light soil of banks and hedges ;
discovered at Sheffield, Berkshire County, and since found in
many other places, Westfield, Amherst, &c.
91. C. polymorpha, Muhl. Westfield ; dry fields. Most of
the specimens have 2 or more staminate spikes, and the summit
of the pistillate partially staminate.
The species of this genus seem to have few useful properties.
The leaves of large species are used in Italy to bind wine-flasks,
and by chair-makers and coopers, as the rush and cat-tail. Loudon.