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MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 



531 



10. Sparganioides. 



C. spiculis multiflo- 

 ris, suboctonis, ovatis, 

 subapproximatis; fruc- 



Spikes many flow- 

 er ecT, generally eight, 



ovate 



approximate; 



tibiis ovatis, compres- fruit ovate, compress- 

 sis, marginatis, bifidis, ed, winged, two-cleft, 

 margine ciliato-jserra- ciliate serrate along the 

 tis, horizontalibus. I margin, horizontal. 



Sp. pi. 4. p. 237. Pursh, 1. p. 36. Nutt. 2. p. 204. 



Stem twelve to eighteen inches high, nearly terete. Leaves numerous, 

 longer than the stem, striate, scabrous along the margins, two to thriee lines 

 wide. ^ Flowers in numerous sessile spikes, (six to eight,) the upper ones 

 approximating. Bracteal leaf setaceous, rather longer than the spikes. 

 &a/es ovate, mucronate, scarcely as long as the corolla. Corolla ovate, 

 slightly acuminate, compressed, horizontally expanding, finely serrate, 

 slightly two-cleft. 5eerf orbicular, compressed. 



Grows in damp soils, in the upper districts of Carolina and Georgia. 

 Flowers — 



!!• Rosea. 



Schkulir 



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C. spiculis subqua- 



Spikes 



lernis, remotis; fructi- 1 remote 



bus ovatis, 



bidentatis, 



3 



enerally 



ruit 



ovate 



acummatis, acuminate, 2-toothed 



ciliato serratis. 



margine 



ciliate serrate 



9 

 9 



hori 



along 



the margin, horizontal 



zontalibus, squamis r scales ovate, obtuse; 

 ovatis, obtusis; bractea bractea leaflike at the 



foliacea ad basin spi 

 culae inferioris. 



base 

 spike. 



of 



the 



lower 



s 



04. 



p. pi. 4/p. 237* Pursh, 1. p. 36. Muhl. Gram. p. 223. Nutt. 2. p. 



otem about twelve inches high, slender, slightly angled. Leaves linear, 



«>nger than the stem, a little scabrous along the margin. Splices four to six, 



^^^11; sessile, the Jower somewhat distant. The lowest bracteal leaf seta- 



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