

THE NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF FUIRENA 



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16-30, 1894 (B M N) 



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plant (M); Jacksonville 

 (N), 5064, September 



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1894, in part 

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Le larger 

 13, 1893 



30, 1895 (B 

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Jefferson County, Hitchcock, June 



1894 (MN), 5582, October 

 Kosewood, Garber, June, 1876 (N) 



year not given (N) 

 and July, 1898 (M) 



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Hitchcock 412, July and August, 1900 (M N) ; 

 given, Chapman, 1897 (M), Chapman, without 



date of collection (M), Simpson, 1889 (N) 



Alabama 



Mohr, 1897 (B) 



Mississippi : Tchouteco Bouffe 



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Tracy 4814, October 9, 1898 (M); Bilox 



6321, June 22, 1899 (B N) ; Ocean Springs, Tracy 54, 

 July 19, 1899 (N), Skehan, 1895 (M), Seymour 14, 



(M) 



Louisiana : 



August 21, and September 11, 1891 

 Lake Charles, Mackenzie 437, August 25 to September 10, 

 1898 (M) ; Hammond, Biltmore Herbarium, September 

 17, 1900 (B). Texas: Hockley, Tliurow, without date of 

 collection (N); Eastern Texas, Nealley, 1888 (N); 

 Orange, Letterman 547, August 11, 1886 (M). 



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6. FUIRENA HISPIDA Elliott. 



Fuirena hispida Elliott, Sk. 1 : 579. (1821). 



Fuirena squarrosa hispida (Ell.) Chapman, Fl. S. U. S. 514. (1860). 



Rootstocks slender, usually tuber-bearing ; stems 

 smooth or rarely a little pubescent, few-leaved, 3 to 

 8 dm- tall; leaf -blades linear, 5 to 12 dm. long, short- 

 pubescent above, long-pubescent beneath, sheaths densely 



hispid with 



long spreading hairs; 



spikelets sessile, 



3 to 8 together in the capitate clusters, ovoid or ovoid- 



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3-nerved, nearly as long as the body ; sepals 3 ; blades 

 deltoid-ovate, acuminate at apex, truncate or cordate at 

 base, thick, reddish, opaque or nearly so, tapering into a 



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