600 
parınla compresso-biconvexa late obovata transversim un- 
Aulato-rugosa, undulis leviter Striatis Zateo -rufescente niti- 
dula, rostro depresso-conico ahtuso compre:so basi configue, 
fusco; setis mox dieiduis caryopsi multo hrevioribus; stylo 
perbrevi vix parum exserto. 
R. rariflora El. — Gray I, e. 197. 1.3. — Schoenus 
rariflorus Michx. (v. s.) — R. selacea Vahl (file Kunth.) 
et Kunth, 1. ce. 299, 538, pro parte. — R. micrantha Beyr. 
hb. — Pterochacte Drummeondiüi Arn. in Sched. — Drunmond. 
coll. no. 403, 404, 414. 
Carolina. Louisiana. Texas. 
89, BR. longispieata Beklr. 
[n 
Laete viridis v. glauco- virens; rhizomate hrevissimo fi- 
brillis faseienlatis, v. rarım elongato subrepente, brunnee; 
eulmis fascienlatis strietis filiformibus setaceisque 6—12 poll. 
alt. obtuse angulatis sulcatis, hasin versus paucifoliatis; foliis 
filiformibus ereetis remotiusculis suhrigidis "riangularıbus 
latere uno leviter canaliculatis 3-——8 poll. long., laevibus; 
corymbis 2—3—1 remotis, lateralibus simplieibus 4—3—:2- 
ramosis, apicali item simplici v. seniicomposito 5— 6-ramoso 
quam braetea sna parnm longiore; ramis setaceis paruni ap- 
proximatis patentibus pateiltissimisque 5—1 Kin! long. (uno 
alterove interdum elongato); spieulis elongatis prime Iineari- 
subulatis, post anthesin lineari-oblongis obtüsis"5— 6 lin. 
long. suhbmultifloris; squamis inferioribus 5 cör/aceo -Figidis 
longinscule inucronatis pällide” Tuscis, 4ta et Bta oblongis 
spieulam fere aequantibus, sequentibus fascienlatis submem- 
branaceis rubiginosis oblongo -lanceolatis longe'angustatis 
mulieis; caryopsi parvula sqnama multo breviore ohovata 
