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Rkizoma repens, sublignosum, crassitie fili emporetici, vaginis approxima- 

 tis dense obsitum. Culmi decumbentes, 8-1 2'.pollicares, crassitie pennse 

 gallinacese et infra, subspongiosi, viridi-cinerascentes, purpureo macu- 

 lati, dichotonie ramosi, ramis erectis. Vagince culmece semipollicares, 

 laxe convoluta^, membranacea?, sub apiee obtusiusculo mucronata?^ 

 intus nitentes^saepissime arcuata;, recurvatsc, demuni deciduae, annulum 

 nigrum relinquentes, Vagince ramulornm 4-5 lin. longa;, ellipticae, ob- 

 tusse, laxe convolutse, coriacese, ad margines tenuiores, sub apice mem- 

 branaceo valide subulato-ttiucronatae. Flores masculi 00, subtrigoni, 

 in paniculam erectam, cymosam, oblongam, 2-3-pollicarem, spathis 



vaginiformibus, apertis, demum dcciduis, interstinctani, congest!. 

 Bractece uudique arete imbricata?, late ovatae, acutai,concavBe, coriacea?, 

 ferruginese, sub apice pallidiore membranaceo subulato-mucronulatae, 

 flores vix superantes vel eis breviores. GIuttke externce ovatae, acuta?. 



coriaceae, ferrugineae, punctulis parvis exasperata?, omnes magis mi- 

 nusve concavae. Glumm internee 3, oblonga?, acutse, ferrugineae, puncti- 

 culatac^externis duple longiores, AnthercE inclusae, oblonga;, apiculatac. 

 Plantsdtexninesd culmi vagincequeut in mare. F/ore^ congesto-pani- 

 culati, spathis a]>ertis cusj)idatis demum deciduis interstincti. Brac- 

 tece oblongae, acuminatae, floribus breviores. Glumce externce oblongae, 

 acuta?, mucronatae, 1-nerviae, inter se sequales, internis juventute bre- 

 viores, postea eas aequantes. Gluma interrKe oblongae, externis vix lon- 



giores. Ovarium stipitulatum, turbinatum, coriaceum, biloculare, stylis 

 2 vel 3 superatum. Stigmata linearia, inclusa. Fructus iudehiscens, 

 oblongus, coriaceus, bilocularis, loculis 1-spermis. 

 Species mihi non satis nota, fructu indehisccnte biloculari admodum 

 singularis. 



The specimens that I have examined of this species have been 

 imperfect, so that I am not perfectly confident that the sexes are 

 rightly matclied. The peculiar conformation of the ovary and 

 fruit is unmatched in the whole order- that it is really two-celled 

 and indehiscent I have no doubt, from having examined several 

 flowers I but in the absence of more complete evidence I prefer to 

 place the species under Elegia^ to which it conforms in habit ifec, 

 rather than to place it in a new genus. The variable length 

 of the outer glumes in the male plant is not a point of much con- 

 sequence, as the size of these parts is variable in other species 

 according to age &c. 



11. E.? GRANDIS. 



Char, emend. — Culmis impresso punctulatis, aurco nitentibus, medio 

 dichotorae raraosis ; vaginis culraeis 1-2-polhcaribus, laxiu&culis, 

 demum laxe patcntibus, coriaceis, sub apice tenuiore valide subu- 

 lato-mucronatis ; floribus masculis plurimis, in cymas paniculatas 

 plnnramo^as dispo>;itis; spathis magnis, apertis, nitentibus, dcmtim 



