576 . 
plane nullis;  stylo tenerrima,, stigmatibas longiuseulis 
exserto, 
In valle Mexieo leg. Sehaflner. — (Herh. propr.) 
60. R. ciliata Vahl. 
Glaueescensz radiee fihrosa; ulnıis plurihus strjele erec- 
tis 3—1 ped. altis, sursum Aliformibus, ex fereti v. suban- 
gulato compressis, basi plurifoliatis; Foliis herbaceo-rigidulis 
reetis Zatiusculis planis, apier extrema obtuso carinulatis, 
margine ciliatis, dovso subtiliter multinervüs, 1—5 poll. 
long., hasilaribus approximatis 1 —%Y, fin. lat, culmeis 
3:4 ansustioribus remotis; eorymbo composite solitario fer- 
minali (rare altero adjeeto laterali approximato) pluriramoso, 
quam bractea inferior parum breviore; ramis patentihns 
3—2 lin. long. et brevioribus, infime interdum elongato, suh- 
sewipollieari; bracteis braeteolisgne eilatis; spieulis pluribns 
vonelomeratis ovalis acutatis 2Y, lin. Jongis diearpis sexqua- 
matis; sqnamis menhranaceis late ovafis concavis subearina- 
tis ferrugmeis v. ferrugineo-brunneis, mucrone hispidulo; 
caryopsi grandinsenla squama "5 breviore Jate ovali hasi 
parım angustala, apice quasi frumeata, satis compressa reii- 
eulata marginem versus rugulesa ibique aAtrocastanea disco 
infescente; rostro ahhreviato depresso-tonico fructus partem 
quartam subaequante vompvresso obluso rugoso festaceo v. 
ferrugineseente, setis (5—3) caryopsi mullo brevioribus 
antrorsum bispidalis. . 
R. eiliata Vahl I. e. 235. Knuth, 295. — Gray le, 
209. f. 18 (non f. 19.) — Willd. bb. no. 1142. — Schoenus 
eiliaris Michx. Fl. 1. 36. (v. s.) — R. punctata Beyr. hh. 
-- R. microseta Steud., 142. (v. s.) 
Civitat. American, unit. ealidior, 
