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• RIONQECI4 TIIJANDRIA. 



the interior equal, membranaceous; corolla two valved, equal, the valves 

 lanceolate, membranaceous; filaments three; anthers oblong incinnbenti 

 nectaries two, carnose, triangular, conccive and somewhat two-pointed at the 

 summit. Fertile flowers nestling in recesses in the rachis; common glupie 

 two-valved, two.flowered, (the exterior generally abortive;) exterior glume 

 lanceolate, glabrous, cartilaginous, closing very nearly the cavity, perforated 

 near the base? the interior membranaceous; corolla of both florets two- 

 valyed, lanceolate, mejubranaceous, the exterior larger, bearing only the 

 rudiment of a germ and style, the interior with the rudiments of three sta- 

 mens; germ ovate, glabrous. Style thick. Stisrmas very long, feathered. 

 Seed ovate, glabrous. * ~ . 



This species has been to me very rafe. I have only seen it growing on a 

 sandy knowl on the margin of the Ogejechee River. "^ ? 



Flowers May — July. 



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2. MONOSTACHYOIV. WUld. 



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T4 jspica solitaria, 

 terminally superne nias- 

 cula, inferne foeminea. 



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Spikb solitary, ter- 

 minal, floret^ sterile' 



near the suiiimit, fer- 

 tile at the base. 



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Sp. pi. 4. p. 202, Pursh, ?. p. 88. Nutt. l.p. 85. i 



Root perennial^ Stem three to five Teet high, sometimes branching, 

 somewhat compressed, glabrous. Leaves one to three feet long, one inch 

 wide, finely serrulate, somewhat scabrous, contracted and a little hairy at 

 base, the sheath shorter than the intemode. Spike terminal, solitary, the 

 base obliquely articulated, bearing the fertile florets distichously; the summit 

 somewhat triquetrous, bearing tke sterije florets on two angles, the back flex- 

 uous. The structure of t|ie flower vpry similar to that of the precedinir 

 species. 



niargin of the salt-water. 

 Flowers; August — October 



(Paris Island) along tli 



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3. Cylindricum. Mich. 



T. spica solitaria, I Spike solitary, cyh'n- 

 cylindrica, hermaphro- 1 drical, hermaphrodite: 

 dita; spiculis contiguis I separating into short 



in artjculos secedenti- j joints 

 bus. 



60, Sp. pi. 4. p. 202. Pursh, 1. p. 88 



