Fig. 244: Rhynchospora glomerata: a, top of plant, X V-y, b, scale, X 25; c, achene, 

 X 15. (Courtesy of R. K. Godfrey). 



the penultimate axils; spikelets, linear, 3- to 10-flowered, about 1 mm. thick, the 

 fruits very quickly maturing in acropetal succession and falling with the scales, 

 as many as 5 to 8 fruits maturing from a single spikelet but only 1 or 2 visible 

 at any one time; scales brownish, about 1.5 mm. long; bristles absent; achenial 

 body 0.7-0.8 mm. long, obovate, whitish, the 2 faces nearly flat, with transverse 

 rugae; tubercle 0.1-0.15 mm. long, 0.15-0.2 mm. broad, whitish, blunt. 



Rare in moist or wet sand, s. part of e. Tex. (Hardin Co.), summer; Fla. to 

 Tex.; W.I. 



Some authors have referred these plants to R. intermixta Wright. 



6. Rhynchospora capillacea Torr. 



Tufted perennial; culms capillary, 1-4 dm. tall; leaves filiform, 0.2-0.4 mm. 

 wide, often as long as the inflorescence; inflorescence ellipsoid or ovoid, of 

 1-10 spikelets, the terminal 2-8 mm. broad, the 1 axillary fascicle subsessile or 

 short, peduncled; spikelets lanceolate, sessile or subsessile, brown, 5-7 mm. long, 

 1- to 5-fruited; scales with a pale margin; bristles 6 (or rarely more), retrorsely 

 barbed, as long as or longer than the tubercle; achenes obovate-oblong, marked 

 horizontally or rugose, 1.7-2.6 mm. long, less than half as wide, narrowed toward 

 the base; tubercle lanceolate, 0.8-1.6 mm. long. 



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