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3, cylindrical, loose, at length pendulous, long- 

 pedunculate, subdistant ; fruit ovate, subglobose 

 at the base, smooth, bi6d, rostrum very long, 

 longer than the lanceolate glume. 

 HAB. Meadows and rocky woods. Culm 2 ft. high, 

 slend.; pedunc.Jilif. 



232. SCLER1A. Whip grass. Cyperacece. 



1. S. triglomerata : culm erect, acutely triquetrous, 



scabrous ; leaves broad-linear, subscabrous and a 

 little hairy ; spikes lateral and terminal, fascicu- 

 late ; glumes ciliate, mucronate ; nuts smooth and 

 polished. 

 HAB. Marshes. July. U. Culm 3— 4 ft. high ; 

 nut large, white, hard. 



2. S. paucx [flora: stem triquetrous and with the nar- 



row leaves smooth ; spikes lateral and terminal, 

 few-flowered, the lateral ones pendulous, terminal, 

 fasciculate ; glumes smooth ; seed roughened. 

 HAB. Wet meadows. Aug. U. Culm 2 ft. high, 



slend. ; lat. spikes 2. 

 . S. verticillata : stem simple, triquetrous, and with 

 the leaves smooth ; spike glomerate, naked, the 

 clusters alternate, distant ; glumes smooth ; seed 

 globose, mucronate, transversely corrugate. 

 HAB. Meadows. Aug. U. Culm 1 ft. high, 

 slend. ; nut small, tuberculaie. 



533. TRIPSACUM. Sesame grass. Graminecs. 



W dartyloides : spikes numerous, (3 — 4,) aggregate, 

 florets sterile near the summit, fertile at the base. 



fJAB. Dry hills. Aug. U . Culm 5— 1ft. high . 

 spik. large ; stig. long, purp. 



l. monostachyon : spike solitary. 



IIAR. With the preceding. 



534. COMPTONIA. Sweet fern, 



G. aspleni folia. 



HAB. * Woods. May. Shrub *—> 3 ft. high, aro. 

 matir ; leav. lobed-pinnat. 



