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MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



plant (M), no locality given, Curtiss, 1875, a very large 

 form with abnormally opposite leaves, approaching F. 

 hispida in the hispid sheaths and leaves. 



5. FUIRENA BREVISETA Coville. 



Fuirena breviseta Coville, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club. 28 : 466. (1901). 

 Fuircna squarrosa breviseta Coville, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club. 17:6. (1890). 

 Fuirena squarrosa Chapman, PI, S. U. S. 514,(1860): not Fuirena 

 squarrosa Michx. I. c. (1803). 



Rootstocks stout, elongated; stems tall, robust, leafy, 

 3 to 8 dm. tall; leaf -blades flat, thickish, densely pilose 



minutely pube 



sometimes smooth, 



nervose, acuminate at apex; sheaths on the upper part of 

 the stem smooth, on the lower part often densely finely 

 pilose; spikelets sessile, 2 to 8 together in the capitate 



clusters, ovoid or 

 mm. in diameter ; 



e> 



12 mm. long, 4 to 6 



more 



nerved, each tipped 



longer 



spreading or recurved awn nearly as long as the body ; 

 sepals 3 ; blades oval, obovate or suborbicular, acutish at 

 the base, rounded or truncate at the apex, and with a 

 minute apiculation; perianth-bristles short, not 

 than the stipe of the achene, smooth; achenes oblon^, 

 triquetrous, light yellow at maturity, tipped with the 

 antrorsely hispid style, which is as long as the achene. 

 Sandy soil along the coast, from eastern North Carolina 

 to Florida, west along the Gulf coast to southern Texas. 

 Summer and autumn. 



Specimens' examined. — North Carolina: No locality 

 given, Kearney 1963, August 1, 1898 (N), McCarthy, 



(N) ; Washington, Biltmore Herbarium, July 



( B ) . South Carolina : 



G 



403, August 

 September 13, 



(N). Georgia: Leslie, Harper 



17, 1900 (MN) 



H 



( 



N); 



B 



(M). Florida: Miami, Garber, July, 1877, type 



