' stsvRiNCHiUM. TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 43 



Eooi perennial, fibrous. Stem cespitose at base, about a foot 

 high, setaceous and rather dry; margin distinctly winged, aS 

 in the preceding species. Spath consisting of 2 very unequal 

 valves; one of them about as long as the peduncles, the other 

 continued half an inch or more beyund the flowers, and ending 

 in a rigid point ; both of them strongly coloured, generally of 

 a violet colour. Flowers about 4 in each spaih ; fieduncles 

 veiy slender, each with a glumaceous bract at the base ; petals 

 obcuneate, emarginate and mucronate, blue. Stamens^ cap- 

 sule., 8cc. as in the preceding species. 



jHab. In sandy fields. Long-Island, near Islip, &c. ; also in 

 New-Jcrsey, near Philadelphia. In Pennsylvania. Mu h len- 

 der g. June — July. 



This species is easily distinguished from S. ance/is by Us 

 large coloured spath. 



33. KYLLINGIA, L. 



Flowers distinct, disposed in a roundish, sessile, 

 subimbricated spike. Cali/x 2-valved, 1 -flowered. 

 Corolla 2-valved, longer than the calyx. Gen. pi. 91. 

 JVutt. Gen. I. p. ho. Juss. p. 37. Roem, £s? 

 Scliult. Gen. 188. Lam. 111. t. XXXVIII. Nat. 

 Ord. Cyperoide^ Juss, 



K. monocephala L.: stem filiform, 3-angled ; head glo- 

 bose, sessile ; involucrum 3-leaved, very long. W il I d. 

 Spec, \, p. 256. Va h I Enum. II. p. 379. Muhl. Gram. 

 p. 3. FAliott Sk.\. ^. b^, R o em, 4r S chul t. Gen. 

 U. p. 236. 



Boot perennial, creeping, stoloniferous. Culm 3—12 inches 

 high. Leaves linear, shorter than the stem. Head always 

 single, uniformly inclined to one side. Involucrum sometimes 

 with a fourth leaf; one of the leaves always erect and twice 

 or thrice the length of the horizontal ones. Elliott. 

 Hab. In Pennsylvania. Muhlenberg. Probably distinct 

 from the K. monocephala of India. 



34. SCIRPUS. L, 



CalyXy glumes 1-valved, 1-flovvered, imbricated on 

 all sides. Gen. pL 94. JVutt. Gen. I. ^. 32. Juss. 

 p.27. ^ciRV\JS I>. Fa hi. Isolepis et Eleocha- 

 ms li. Brown. Fimbristylis Fahl. Tricho- 

 PHORUM Pers. Lam. III. t. XXXVIII. Nat, 

 Ord. C Y p e R 1 D liE Jus s. Club-rush, 



