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Cyperus esculentus, Linn. Chufa. Fig. 1194; also Fig. 959. St. 8 in. to 3 ft. high, stoutish: Lvs. several, equaling the st. or slightly shorter, rarely longer, 2-4 lines wide; involucral Lvs. exceeding the infl.: umbel open; rays ½-4 in. long; spikelets very numerous, spicate on the branches, crowded, divaricate, brownish stramineous, linear, 4-12 lines long, scarcely compressed; scales lax, several-nerved, dull, rarely carinate; midrib somewhat green: achenes oblong, obtuse. Tropics and sub- tropics.—A weed in sandy cult. fields northward and southward; rarely grown for the edible tubers.
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