MONOECIA TRIANDRIA, 



529 



201. 



Sp. pi. 4. p. 235. Pursh, 1. p. 35. Muhl. Gram 



Nutt. 2. p. 



Stem very slender, nearly twelve inches high, slightly angled, leafy near 

 the base. 



Lea ^e^ linear, almost filiform^ scabrous along the margm- 



five to six, few-flowered, sterile at the summit, 

 shorter than the corolla. 



Spikes 



Scales ovate, acute, keeled, 



diverging. 



Fruit ovate, acuminate, glabrous, when mature 



Grows in dry soils. In the upper districts of Carolina* 

 Flowers in May. 



7. Stipata? 



(12 



ft 



C. spiculis pluritnis I Spikes numerous (J 2 



20), 



aggregatis; 



composiUs, 

 fructibus 



20), compound. 



ag 



gregate; fruit finally 



demum patentibus,ova- expanding, ovate, acu 

 tis, acuminatis, con- | minate, plano-convex, 

 vexo-planis, nervosis, 

 ciliato-serratis; culmo I stem 



nerved, ciliate, senate, 



triquetrous, with 

 triquetro, marginibus I the angles somewhat 



sub scabris. 



E. 



scabrous. 



T 



Sp. pL 4. p. 233. Pursh, 1. p. 35. Nutt. 2. p, 204. 



Stem one to two feet high, thick, succulent, very tender, very glabrous, 

 excepting the margins, which, particularly towards the summit, are slightly 

 scabrous. Leaves as long as the stem, (longer when young,) strap-shaped 

 channelled, nerved, slightly serrulate, sheathing the base of the stem. Flaw- 

 ersin numerous, compound spikelets, so closely aggregated as to form a 

 continued and somewhat compact spike, appressed when young, expanding 

 when mature. Male florets terminating each spikelet, scale ovate, mem- 

 branaceous, mucronate. Scale of the female floret similar. Corolla ovate, 

 tapering to the two-cleft summit, serrulate, nerved. Stigfiias two- Seed 



obtusely triquetrous. 

 Grows in swamps — very common 

 Flowers April, 



8. MuHLENBEUGll. 



C. spiculis plurimis, 



Spikes 



numerous 



ovatis, alternis, ap- ovate^ alternate, ap- 



? 



proximatis 

 subrotundo 



VOL. lU 



fructibus proximate; fruit ovate, 

 ovatis, I nearly round, winged, 



x3 



