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feet high; leaves broadly linear, with acuminate points, 1-2 
feet long; spike oval or oblong, many-flowered; scale dark, 
margin entire, brown, thick, convex and becoming more so with 
age; lateral sepals rather short, linear, thin, the winged keel irreg- 
ularly incised-fimbriate throughout its length. 
Florida—A. W. Chapman. 
Alabama.—Buckley; Gadsden, G. R. Vasey. 
South Carolina—Santee Canal, Ravenel. 
Texas.—Houston, E. Hall, No. 674; mouth of Brazos River, 
F. Lindheimer. 
11. XYRIS PLATYLEPIS, Chapm. 
X. platylepis, Chapm. Fl. S U.S. 501 (1860). 
Scapes straight, twisted, two-edged above, 1%-3 feet 
high; leaves linear, lanceolate, pointed, somewhat twisted, 9-15 
inches long; spikes cylindric or oval, obtuse or acute and often 
loosely flowered in the older specimens; scales orbicular, the 
lateral margins curling backward with age; lateral sepals long, 
narrow, the upper half of the narrowly winged keel serrate. 
South Carolina.—Aiken, H. W. Ravenel, No. 4 and No. 3, 
1866; Charleston, A. H. Curtiss. ; 
Florida.—Jacksonville, A. H. Curtiss, No. 3011; Apalachi- 
cola, B. F. Saurman. 
12. XYRIS FIMBRIATA, EIl. 
X. fimbriata, EN). Bot. S. Ca. and Ga. i. 51 (1816). 
Scapes straight, twisted, two-edged above, 2-4 feet high; 
leaves long, broadly linear, with acuminate point, 1-2 feet long ; 
spikes cylindric or globose, many-flowered ; scales wider above 
the middle, margin entire ; lateral sepals somewhat long, linear, 
long-fimbriate above the middle. 
New Jersey.—Quaker Bridge, C. F. Parker, 1866; Atsion, 
C. F. Parker; Pine barrens, J. D. Smith. 
South Carolina.—Society Hill, M. A. Curtis. 
Florida.—J. H. Simpson. 
Virginia—Dismal Swamp, T. Morong. 
Alabama.—Mobile, C. Mohr. 
Mississippi.—Mississippi City, J. D. Smith. 
13. XYRIS TORTA, Smith. » 
X. éorta, Smith, in Rees Encycl. (1819). 
X. conocephala, Sauv. Fl. Cub. 159 (1868). 
