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MONOECIA TRIANDRIA 



30. LUPULINA. 



C. spicis foemineis I Fertile spikes three 

 tribus.pedunculatis, ob- oblong, approximate 



, . * • .♦ I •.! • 1 ^1 1 



longis 



bracteis longissimis 



approximatis; with inclosed pedun 



cles; 



bracteas 



very 



foliaceis; fructibus o- long, leaflike; fruit o 

 vatis, ventricosis, ner- j vate, ventricose, nery 

 vosis, longissime coni- 

 co-rostratis, ore bicus- 

 pidatis, squama ovata 



I 



ed, with long, conical, 

 2-pointed beaks, much 

 longer than the ovate 



mucronata multoties i mucronate scale, 

 longioribiis. 



.Sp. pi. 4. p. 266. Pursh, 1. p. 41. Muhl. Gram. p. 241. Nutt. 2. p. 



205. 



Stem two to three feet high, triquetrous. Leaves lanceolate linear, with 

 the margin and midrib scabrous. Sterile spike solitary, sometimes two, 

 scales linear lanceolate, very acute, mucronate. Fertile spikes two to three, 

 approximate, ovate, sometimes globose, on short peduncles, the lower en- 

 closed in a short sheath, scale lanceolate, acuminate, with the point sonie-^ 

 what hispid. Corolla ovate, inflated, distinctly nerved, terminating m a 

 long, two-cL-ft beak, much longer than the scale. Stigmas three. 



Grows in swamps and wet soils. 



Flowers April — May. 



31. GlGANTEA. 



Rudge. 



3 



C, spicis foemineis | Fertile spikes 



remotis 



cylin 



remote, c 



yiindrical 



? 



e 



dricis, erectis, incluse rect, with inclosed pe- 

 pedunculatis,- bracteis duncles; bracteas long, 

 foliaceis, longissimis, leafy, glabrous; rorol- 



glaberrimis; corolHs | la ovate, with a coni- 

 ovatis, conico rostratis, 



bifidis, nervosis.ventri- 



'? 



? 



cos IS, squama ovato- 



lanceolata 



longioribus. 



cal tAVo-cleft beak, ner 

 ved, ventricose, longer 

 than the ovate lanceo- 

 late scale. 



Trans. Lin. Soc. 7. p. 99. t. 10. f. 2. Muhl. Gram, p 



