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lounge superatis; rammlis hrevibus sessilibusque; spieulis ple- 
rumque pluribus faseieulatis oblongo- avalis teretibus multi- 
floris 2 -2'z kin. long; squamis densis tenuiler meinhrana- 
ceis ovato-laneeolatis obtusis v. acntinsenlis fuscescenti-ter- 
mgineis; car. perminufa orbieulari hiconvexa leviter com- 
pressa, basi in stipirem brevem ac latum contracta, obsolete 
rugosa vastanea witente; vrostro Conico compresso, basi dila- 
tata perfeete continua ad angulos Iructus deeurrente, viri- 
dulo caryopsi parum longiore; siylo longe persitenle vx- 
serto usque fere ad medium fisso; stamin. 2 persistentibus. 
— Perigen. nullum. 
R. seirpoides A. Gray Man. ed V,,568. — Psilocarya 
scirpoides Torr. 1. c. 360. 
America septentr, 
58. BR. pungens Liehm. 
Glauseseens; culwis  stnietiuseulhs Aliformibus dirmis 
1—2-pedalib,, inferne obtuse triangulis superne obsolete au- 
gulatis infra apicem Jaevibus v. scahridis; foliis eulmeis 
2—-4 striete ereetis subrigidis longiuseule angustato - acumi- 
natis earinato-planis apice aculis, warginibus seahris, 3, 
—1 poll. lengis, inferne lineam eire. Jatis; coryimbo termi- 
uali semidecomposito 3—4-ramoso, laterali parum renoto 
vomposito contracto biramoso longiuscule pedunewlate ; brac- 
teis setaceis corymbis suis brevioridns; vamis corymbi ler- 
minalis inaequalibus, intermedio breviore; spieulis 3—5 fas- 
eieulatis ovyatis acutis 2 lin. Jongis; spuamis inferioribus 
3 chartaceis late ovatis obtusis subearinato-convexis mutro- 
natis obseure fuseis opacis: quarta hermaphrodia fertili 
majori, quintu hermaphrodita abortiva, sequentibus (3) 
