MONOECIA TRTANDRIA, 



633 



Stem eight to twelve inches high, slender, slightly triquetrous, but at base 

 when surrounded by the sheaths of the leaves appearing cylindrical, slightly 

 scabrous towards the summit along the margins. Leaves very nan'ow, 

 scarcely a line wide, nearly as long as the stem, sheathing its base, the low- 

 short. Splices generally four to six, squarrose, sessile, bracteas 



est 



very 



subulate, small, the lowest sometimes longer than the spike. 



fiorets 



numerous, forming a long spike at the base of the terminal spike, solitary or 

 wanting at the base of the lower spikes; calyx a scale, membranaceous, 

 very acute, w^th the midrib green. Scale of the 

 of the male- Corolla ovate, acuminate, serrati 



female J?oref 



Corolla ovate, acuminate, serrate along tl^e margin, two-cleft 

 at the summit, with the teeth erect, expanding horizontally. Stigmas two. 

 Grows iu swamps. 



Flowers ApriL 



14. Lagopodioides. 

 C.spiculis duodenisj 



Spikes^ 



numerous 



9 



alteriiis^ ellipticis^ ob- alternate^ elliptic^ ob 



tusis, 



approximatis; ! tuse 



approximate; 



fructibus ovato-Ianceo- fruit ovate lanceolate, 

 latis, marginatis, bicus- winged, two-pointed; 

 pidatis; bractea folia- | bractea leaflike, very 

 cea, longissima, ad ba- 

 sin spicae ultimae. 



long, at the base of the 

 lower spike. 



Sp. pi. 4. p. 230. Pursh, 1. p. 37- Muhl. Gram. p. 226. Nutt. 2. p. 

 204. 



Stem erect, one to two feet high, obtusely triquetrous, scabrous near the 

 sum*niit. Leaves strap-shaped, longer than the stem, sheathing its base. 

 Spikes very numerous, ten to twenty, ovate, approximate, forming one 

 large, oblong head. Florets in each spike very numerous, imbricate, co- 

 rolla ovate laneeolate, distinctly two-pointed, nerved, much longer than the 

 Ovate scale. Lower bracteal leaf setaceous, as long as the head. 



Grows in swamps and wet meadows, in the mountainous districts of Caro- 

 lina. Dr. Schweinitz. ^ 



Flowers 



% 



15. FoENEA. 



Muhlenbergi 



? 



> 



C, spiculis pluribus, 

 inferioribus distinctisj 



■compositis, superiori- 





Spikes numerous, the 

 lower distinct, com- 

 pound, the upper ap- 



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