MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 



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Rodt perennial^ stoloniferous. Stem about two feet high; triquetrous, 

 slender, purple at base. Leaves linear, nerved, scabrous along the margin^ 

 shorter than the stem. Sterile spike about an inch long, much shorter than 

 its three-nerved bracteal leaf; scales oblong, obtuse, brown^with a white mar- 

 gin. Fertile spikes three, (nine to sixteen flowered,) the upper bearing oij 

 the summit a few sterile flowers, sessile as well as the middle spike, the 

 lower cernuous on a long peduncle. Corolla inflated, ovate, obtusely tri- 

 quetrous, distinctly nerved, terminating ijq a long beak, two-cleft at the 

 summit, somewhat coriaceous, lucid, and transversely striate, resembling 

 under a lens the surface of fine morocco leather. Seed triquetrous. . ^ 



This species appears to me to have no resemblance to the European C. 

 Fulva, at least as that plant is figured in Trans, Lin. Soc. 2. t. 20. f. 6. I 

 have, therefore, changed its name. Its close and strong affinity is to C. Fol- 

 liculata, from which, however, it is by its calyx and corolla sufliciently dis- 

 tinct. It is also a coarser grass. 



Grows in wet pine barrens. Chatham county, Georgia. 



Flowers in April. 



36. Anceps. 



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C. spicis foemineis I Fertile spikes three, 

 tribus, remotis, inferi- distant, the lower pe- 

 oribus pedunculatis; s dunculate; fruit ovate^ 

 fruetibus ovatis, nervo- nerved, membranace- 

 sis, ore membranaceis, ous at the mouth, long- 

 squama oblonga mu- er than the oblong, 

 cronata? longioribus, I mucronate? scale. 



Sp. pi. 4. p. 2f 8. Pursh, 1. p. 42. Nutt. 2. p. 205. 



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Stem triquetrous, compressed, almost ancipitous, Bracteal leaves sheath- 

 ing. The upper fertile spike sessile, the rest on peduncles. Fertile ^orefs 

 alternate, rather remote. Willd. 



I quote the observations of Willdenow on this species, because to me it 

 has been obscure. The plants returned to me by Dr. iMuhlenbere as C. 

 Anceps, are too nearly allied to C. Flexuosa. Dn Muhlenberg has himself 

 ^ferred C. Anceps to C. Plantaginea. 



Grows in wet fields on the sides of ditches, Pursh. 



Flowers April — May. 



37. CoNOlDEA. 



C, spicis foemineis J Fertile spikes two 



bids 



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remotis 



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distant, the upper near 



ttia subsessili, infima | ly sessile, the lower on 



