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MO^OECIA TRIANDRIA. 



Corolla ovate, fiearly entire at the summit, scarcely longer than the dark 



brown scale. . 



Grows in bogs and turfy soils. In the upper districts of l^arolma. 



Flowers ApVil — May. 



^ 2. Stigmatibus 3. 



* 



Sp tea 



terminali 



# 



§ 2. Stigmas 3. 



Terminal spike 



mas cula, cceteris andro- sterile, the 7-est' andro 



gyms 



gynous 



22^ Triceps. Mich. 



C. spicis sub quater- 



r 



Spikes generally 4 



? 



nis 



appi'oximatis 



^ 



approximate 



? 



fruit 



elliptic, 

 o V ate, 



J 



lipticis, sessilibus; fruc- sessile 

 tibus ovatis, compres- compressed, glabrous 



glabris, squamam ] about as long as the 



acuminatam I ovate acuminate scale. 



sis 



3 



ovatam 



sub aequantibus 



Mich. 2. p. 170. 



Stem twelve to eighteen inches high, acutely triquetrous, scabrous along 

 tlie margins, slender. Leaves linear, slightly scabrous on the edges, scarce y 

 longer than the stem, a little pubescent near the sheaths. Spikes ge"^"""'/^ 

 four, three larger, approximate, whence the name given by Michaux, 

 fourth smaller, and a little remote, all sessile, or on very short peduncle , 

 the base of the upper spike surrounded with male florets. Scam ova > 

 slightly acuminate. Corolla of the female florets ovate, somewhat com- 

 pressed, not pointed at first, shorter than the scale, when old quite as lor^- 

 Stigmas three. Seeds triquetrous, . ,. 



Nearly allied to C. Vurescens, from which it appears to differ by its cyu 



Grows in damp soils. 



Flowers April — May. 



lalHous 



23. HiRSUTA. 



C. spica androgyna 



Terminal spike an- 



^„.^..^.., , -- drogynoiis, oblong, t>^" 



feme mascula; foemi- ovate with sterile florets 



neis reraotiusculis, sub- 1 at base; fertile spiKes 



oblo nga 



obov ata 



