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MONOECIA TRIANDRIA 



triquetrous, somewhat ovate, with the mouth entire, nerved, very villous, 

 somewhat hoary. Stigmas three. Style triquetrous. 



This species of Carex, which I sen^ to Dr. Muhlenberg many yeajrs ago, 

 I have never found but oncej I then met with it in dry pastures, on Pans' 

 Island. Its corolla is more villous than that of any species with which I am 



acquainted. 



May 



lare 



J- 



28. Margiixata. Muhl. 



C. s 



picis 



foemineis 1 Fertile spikes gene- 



9 



subgeminis, a})proxi- rally two, approximate 

 matis, subglobosis, sub- subglobose, nearly ses- 

 sessilibus; ftuctibus sile; fruit globose, to- 

 globosis, tomentosis, I mentose, two-toothed, 

 bidentatis, squama ob- larger than the oblong 

 longo-ovata majoribus; ] obovate scale; leaves 

 foliis radicalibus, cul- I radical, longer than the 



mo longioribus. j stem. 



Sp. pi. 4. p. 261. Pursh, 1. p. 40. -Nutt. 2. p. 205. 



Plant scarcely a foot long, growing in tufts- Stem slender, triquetrous; 

 scabrous along the margins. Leaves linear, almost subulate, nearly as long 

 as the stem, slightly scabrous along the margins. Spikes crowded at t e 

 summit, sterile spike terminal, cylindrical, six to eight lines long, scale 

 ovate, chestnut coloured with a wjiite margin, the lower obtuse, thf uppf 

 somewhat acute. Fertile spikes at the base of the sterile, two to three eacn, 

 bearing three to six flowers, scales ovate, acute, sometimes mucronate. 

 nearly as loiig as the fruit. 



Grows on dry hills and rocks. Pursji* 



Flowers April and May, 



29. Vestita. Willd. 



mascula | Sterile spike lanceo- 

 lanceolata. foemineis late, the fertile twO; 



C. 



spica 



geminis, 



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ovatis, ses- | ovate, sessile, appro^* 

 approximatis. 



silibus 



fructibus ovatis, ros 



mate; fruit ovate, bea 



ked 



with an 



tratis, ore obliquis, pu- summit, pubescent 



obliqwe 



J 



as 



bescentibus 



? 



squamam I long as the ovate acute 



