"Seirpus. _ fRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA: 921 
mination of the culm, which. is erect and about as long as the um- 
bel. Scales chaffy, daggered.— Stigma two-cleft.— Nectarial bris- 
tles two on each side of the germ they are beautifully pinnate and 
permanent.-—Secd obovate, compressed, smooth, brown, embraced 
by the nectarial bristles. 
18. S. Ee. R. 
Culms, from six to nine inches high, somewhat five-sided. Umbel 
terminal, compound ; involucre chafty ; d fes monandrous. Seed 
obovate, triangular. s ; 
À native of pasture ground. - = 
Root fibrous.— Culms erect, four six to nine didi high, naked, 
somewbat fenida slightly striated, otherwise smooth.— Leaves 
no other than a sheath or two.—Umbel terminal, compound, small, 
- erect.— Involucre, a few small chaffy scales, with long tapering points, 
— Stamens single.—Stigma three-cleft.—Seed somewhat three-sid<- 
ed, white : scabrous. | 
T i: Sect. 9d. With leaves. 
19. S. atropurpureus. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 294, 
- Grows in small tufts. Culms from three to four inches high, seta- 
ceous, erect, culumnar, longer than the leaves. "pie enit: 
E S solitary, oval. = i VOR 
CA mative of poor, wet sandy, pasture land. ; 
- 90. S. minimus. R. 
Grows in tufts. Culms from one to two inches long, setaceous, 
_ *€ürved, shorter than the leaves.  Involiccre three-leaved. Spikes 
terminal, globular, squarrose, about as long as the involucie. -g T | 
— Found with S. atropurpureus on poor, wet qued — Gru 
21.5, mbnostachajos: Kan. * E 
— Culms straight, from six to twelve inches long, : culomnar 
terminal, solitary, naked, scales roundish. Seed. ob. 
Delights i in _— sandy pasture myles 
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