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MOiNOECIA TRIANDRIA 



distantibus; fructibus I frnit elliptic, 



trique 



ellipticis, triquetris, pe- 

 dicellatis, glabris, squa- 



idata 



ma 



ovata 



cuspi 



(trimum), brevioribus; 

 bracteis vaginalis apice 

 subfoliaceis; foliis ra- 

 dicalibus, lanceolatis, 



nervosis. 



trous, pedicellate, gla 



brous, at first shorter 



than the ovate, cuspi- 



date 



scale; 



bracteas 





sheathing at the sum- 

 mit, leaflike; leaves ra- 

 dical, lanceolate, nerv- 

 ed. 



Sp. pi. 4. p. 257. Mich. 2. p. 173. Pursh, l.p.42. Nutt. 2. p. 205. 



Stem twelve to eighteen inches high, glabrous. Leaves lanceolate linear, 

 assuming the lanceolate form more than usual among grasses, nerved, gla- 

 brous, thin, very slightly serrulate along the margins. Stenle spike one, 

 terminal, fertile generally about four, distant, erect, hnear, the iruii noi 

 crowded, the lower on long peduncles, the peduncles of the upper scarcely 

 longer than the sheaths. Bracteal leaves resembling those of the root, au 

 sheathing for at least half an inch the base of the peduncle. i>cales oi iw 

 sterile floret lanceolate, acute, not mucronate; of the fertile ovate mucrc^ 

 nate. Corolla oblong, somewhat oblique, acute, slightly notched at vk 

 summit, very distinctly nerved, and when mature, in my specimens alwap 



longer than the scale. 



Grows in rich shaded soils. 



Flowers April. 



35. Castanea. 



E. 



7 



C, spica mascula so- I Sterile spike sohta 

 litaria; foemineis tri- ry; fertile spikes three 

 bus, subrotundis, infi- | nearly round, the low 



est on a long peduncle 

 nodding, the upper ses- 



y 



ma 



longissime 



pedun 



culata, cernua^ super i 

 oribus sessilibus; 

 rolla triquetro ovata 



? 



co- 



sile 



corolla 



trique 



trous ovate, glabrous. 



glabra 



puncticulosa, 1 slightly dotted, m 



uch 



squama ovata, obtusa longer than the ovate. 



multo longiore 



C. Fulva? Iliihl. Gram. p. 246. 



obtuse scale. 



