5W 



J^CiNOECH TRIANDRIA^ 



* 



Sp, pi. 4. p. 208. Pyrsh, 1. p. S4. Muhl. Gram. p. 2XJ, Nutt. 2. p 



204. 



Plant dioecious. Stem about twelve inches high, obtusely triquetrous, 

 slightly spabrous. Leaves linear, hispid along the margin, sheathing the 

 base of the stem. Sterile spikes three to five, alternate, approximate, ses- 

 sile. Scales oblong, slightly mucronate, yellowish. Fertile spiJcesfne to 

 six, alternate, approximate, oblong, sessile. Scales ovate, acute, as long as 

 the corolla, when old yellowish. Way. The two beaks of the corolla 



generally straight. , /> • nr 



Grows in wet meadows. Pursh. Found as far south as Georgia, vr. 



Schweinitz. 



Flowers April — May. 



** Spicis androgy 



** Spikes androgy 



nis. 



nous. 



■ 



Spica unica^Jiori- 



Spike one, the up- 



bus superiorihus ple'\per florets generally 

 rumque masculis. I sterile, 



2. CEPHALOPHaRA. 



e I 



C. spicis in formam | Spikes collected into 



^L- - 



ellipticam 



ag 



regatis; 



an elliptic headj fruit 



fructibus ovatis, com- I ovate, compr 



essed, 



i 



ciliate 

 hatis, superne ciliato- I serrate near the sum 



pressis, bifidis, margi- [ cleft, winged 



? 



serratis. 



mit. 



Nutt. %' P 



L 



Sp. pi. 4. p. 220. Pursh, 1. p. 35. Muhl. Gram. p. 218. 

 204. 



Stem two to three feet high, triquetrous, scabrous aloiig the margins. 

 leaves linear, very long. Spikes four to six, approximate, forming ^ 

 terminal head; bracteal leaf longer than the spike; scale ovate, mucrooa . 

 Corolla ovate, compressed, scabrous along the margins, about as long as 

 scale. Stales two. Seed ovate. 



GroFS in the mcHintainoi^ districts of Carolina and Geor^a. 



Flowers in May. 



8. Squarrosa. 



simplici, I Spike simple, Qval? 

 ovali, inferne mascula; | sterile at base; cap- 



C. 



spica 



