Sii HOllTUS JAMAIGENT^IS. i!^M> 



2. MITIS. SOFT. 



Tcnuidr,.aUissimescaTi(l(ns. Browjie, p. 3:?^^. 

 Culm thiee-iided, scandent, even; leaves even; flowers pariicll'd ; racliis 

 smooth. 

 Culm erect, scandent, without knots, sniooth, with (he ann;les even ; leaves Ian ea- 

 late-Huear, slightly keeled, widish, striated, pal'jr, smooth on hoih sides ; sheaths 

 long, close, smooth,' with a lance<j'ate hlnnt li^iule. Piniclos fjrom the sheytlis of the 

 tipper leaves, elongated, contracted ; with the braiv'-hes simple, alternate, three-si. led, 

 t-mooth ; flowers smaller, on very short pedicels. GUmies of the calyx and corolla in 

 the males a little more ovate than in the precedmg. Filaments three. In the female, 

 gfumcs one-fiowered, the inner ones larger. Nut placed on the calyx, glohnlar, sno\y- 

 white, hlack, and tubcrclfcd at the top, girt at the base by a little ciiiate memb'ranc. 

 Swartz suspectsthis to be the same as the climbing carex of Browne, the stalk of which 

 he savs is slender, and rises to a, considerable heiglit when supported by bushes. 



3. FIUFORMIS. riilFORAK 



Culm simple, filiform, even; leaves subulate ; spike almost simple; flosculcs- 

 smooth, having a filiform, leaflet under them. 



This is a tufted grass.. Culm from one to two feet Irigh, erect, loose, sharply, three- 

 sided, smooth. Leaves linear, keeled, acute, altermae, sessile, not sheathing, hispid 

 at the edge, and (when examined with a magnifier) cartilaginous, serrate, smooth. 

 Spikes terminating, simple; peduncles from two to four, alternate, few- flowered ; 

 on wiiich are fioscules from three to six, male and t'emale mixed, sessile, approximat- 

 ing with a capillajry leaflet under them at the base; under the valves are a few very 

 small scales. In the male, glume of the calyx four- valved ; outer valves, smaller, 

 keeled, acute, often purplish at the lip, closed. Glumes of the corolla many interior, 

 pniail, linear, acute, imbricate, whitish. Filaments one, between the valves, length, 

 of the'glumes of the males, by the side of the coroUine glumes; germ roundish, whit- 

 ish ; style filiform, length of the glumes, three-parted to the middle ; stigmas capil- 

 lary, reflexed ; nut ossified, oblong or roundish, bluntly three-cornered, white, very 

 bard, inclosing the seed. It grows in very dry rocky places. Sw. 



4. HIRTELL.l. ROUGH-H.\IRED. 



Culm simple, filiform,, pubescent ; leaves lineajr ; spike simple; fioscules rough'*- 

 baired. 



This grass is scarcely a foot high ; the roots small, filiform, black ; culm erect, three- 

 sided, striated, loose ; leaves slightly sheathing at the base, distant, very narrow, 

 slightly keeled, rough-haired. Spike terminating, composed of three or four clustered 

 fioscules, which are sessile^ alternate, rough-haired. In the males, the glumes of the 

 calyx are from two to four-valved, two-flowered, avk'nless ; valves lanceolate, acute, 

 ciiiate at the edge with ferruginous hairs ; one or two glumes interior, more tender, 

 .'^mailer, coroliine ; filaments solitary ; females in the same bundle, solitary ; glume 

 two-valved, one-flowered ; valves broad-lanceolate, ciliate ; st\'le bifid or trifid ; stig- 

 mas villose, reflexed j nut ossified, globular, shining) nliite ; very dilTerent hovafii- 

 fovrtiis at first si^iit.. ^ 



5. LATIFOUiL. 



