f , 



MONOEGIA TRIANDRIA. 



543 



ovatam acutam subae 

 quantibus^ 



scale 



1 



. Sp, pi. 4. p. 263. Pursh, 1. p. 41, Nutt* 2. p. 205. 



Stem about two feet high, acutely triquetrous, scabrous along the margins. 

 LeamH narrow, strap-shaped, about as long as the stem. Sterile spike ter- 

 minal, narrow, lanceolate, almost cylindrical, scales ovate, dusky, with a 

 membranaceous margin. Fertile spikes two, cylindrical, nearly sessile, just 

 below the base of the sterile. Corolla ovate, attenuate at the summit, slightly 

 two-cleft, pubescent, almost tomentose. Scales ovate, the lower sometimes 



^ about 

 spikes* 



Grows in wet meadows. Pursh. 

 Flowers May — -June. 



onger 



30. Tewtacdlata. 



C. spicis foemineis I Fertile spikes three, 



tribus, ovatis, sessili 



ovate, nearJy sessile. 



busjhorizontalibus, sub j horizontal, 

 approximatis, confer- 1 mate, crowded 



approxi- 

 brac* 



? 



ventn 



tis; bracteis longissime j teas very long, leaflike 

 foliaceis; corollis ova- I corolla 

 tis, ventricosis, nervo- 

 sis, longissime rostra- 



bidentatis. 



J 



tis 



J 



ore 



cose 



9 



ovate, 

 nerved 



3 



with 



a 



} 



long beak, two-toothed 

 at the summit, longer 

 squama parvula ovata I than the small, ovate 

 mucronata longioribus. | mucronate scale. 



I 



Sp. pi. 4. p. 266. Pursh, 1. p. 41. Muhl. Gram. p. 239. Nutt. 2. d- 

 205. - ^ 



C. Rostrata? Mich. 2.p. 173. - 



Stem two feet high, triquetrous. Leaves very long, lanceolate, linear, 

 »€nred, scabrous along the margins, sheathing the base of the stem. Sterile 

 spike long, solhary, scale linear lanceolate, mucronate. Fertile spikes 

 three, approximate, the two upper sessile, the third with a short mchided 

 peduncle. Bracteal leaves much longer than the stem; scale very much 

 dilated at base, mucronate; corolla ventricose, ovate, terminatbg in a long 

 beak, very sliffhtlv two-cleft, nerved, hut the nerves less rnnsnimnns thun 



•Grow; 



specie 



f^Iowers April and May. 



ountry, 



