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Browne calU this the galactia, with smooth leaves and long reddish flowers. It gro7,-s 

 rhiefly in tlie i.)-.ver lulls, aiici is easily di>tinguishe(l by its long rodihsh ilower^, rnili'y 

 trauches, and wiuootii leaves. It ribfs soniotmies eight or nine feet. 



BOG RUSH. SCHOENUS. 



Cl. '^i OR. 1. Triandila nmnogynia. Nat. or. Calzmarix. 



This name is dtidved from. a Greek, word, signifying a rope, for which some of the 

 species is adajjted. 



Gen. char The calyx has chaffy gl-'jmcs, one-valved, heaped ; there is no corolla ; . 

 the stamina are tlivee capillary filaments, with obiotig erect anthers ; the pistillura 

 ha3-an ovate, three sided, obtu*; geruieii; style biiiiie siiaped, length of the co- 

 rolla ; stigma bitid or tririd, slender ; there is nj pi^ricarp ; the seed is single, 

 louadish, among the glumes. Niny s^iecies are indigenous to this island. 



K STELL.\TDS. STAKRV. 



Gramen cyperoides spica compacta alba, foliis ad sp team parfi'm alhis, 

 partimvitidibus. tiloane, v. 1, p. 119, t. 78, f. 1. 



Culm subtriquetrous, spikelets conglon^eraie, with a leafy involucre, coloured 

 at tho base. 



This hath a perennial root, it fjrows about a foot high, or less. Culm single, np 

 light, striated, smooth, sheathed with the leaves of tue base, roundish, but bluntly 

 tiaree-cornered -towards the top. Leaves almost the length of the culm, erect, linear, 

 acuminate, entire, striated, smooth. Sheaths surrounciing the culm, hirsute or ciliate 

 at the neck ; involucre manifold or three-fold ; leaflets very long< ternately-alternate, 

 spreading, linear-lanceolate, sessile, strirated, smooth, to^vards the base white coloured. 

 Spikes terminatin;^, clustered, sessile, small oblong, acuminate, whitish; chaffs or 

 glumes in bundles, imbricate ovale, acute, concave, scarcely keeled, entire, one- 

 flawered ; the filaments three, -the length of the glumes, upright ; germ roundish ; 

 style longer than the gmines, cloven to the middle ; sti/mas short, erect ; seed round- 

 i=^, flatted a little, l*;ge. It resembles the kyllin^ias, and is probably mixed with 

 vhem by authors, especially witn kijlLngia triceps. Hw. See KjjUingia. 



From a fibrous and stringy root spring up several triangular blunt-edged stalks, oF 

 about a foot ui length. I'ne leaves are harsh to the touch. The spike is compact, 

 ma le up of many white spikes, set clos.^ in a head, and lias some long, harsh, grassy 

 leaves close under it, which for the first part or half are white, and towards the ends-, 

 green. The seed is small and yellowish. It groas in those places where water has in 

 xainy times stood on the gi"omid, as in the pasture beyond the Ansel's Ford. Sloane^ 



2. RESTIOIDES. 



Culms at bottom, compressed ancipital, and very smooth ; flowers panicled ; 

 sheath lanceolate at the top. 



ThLs is almost a fathom in height, the culm jointed, erect, striated, with swellinr? 

 J^oints ; the leaves sheathed at the base, long, wide, linear, quite entire, very finely 



jtviatedi 



