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MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 



y 



longe 



pedunculata; 



fructibus oblongo coni 



4 



a long peduncle; fruit 



oblong 



conic, obtuse, 



CIS, obtusis, squamam as long as the awned 

 aristatam sequantibus. | scale. 



Sp. pK 4. p. 280. Pursh, 1. p. 43. Muhl Gram, p- 248. Nutt. 2. p. 



I have been accustomed, perhaps incorrectly, to refer the following plant 



to this species. , 



Stem about twelve inches high, triquetrous. Leaves narrow, somewhat 

 Subulate, those of the root shorter than the stem, all scabrous along the mar- 

 gin. Sterile spike terminal, small, scales lanceolate. Fertile spikes two to 

 three, the upper ones (when two) approximate, on short peduncles, the lower 

 distant on a peduncle one to two inches long, all small, somewhat cylindri- 

 cal, but not compact. Corolla lanceolate, tapering at each extremity, tri- 

 quetrous, somewhat oblique, nerved, the mouth nearly entire, longer than 

 the ovate lanceolate scale. The lower bractea leaflike, longer than the 



stem- 

 Grows in wet soils. 

 Flowers in April. 



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38. Granularis. 



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f 



C. spicis foemineis I Fertile spikes three 

 tribus remotisj binis I distant, the two lower 

 iaferioribus peduncula- pedunculate; fruit o 

 lis; fructibus globoso- vate, globular, ne 



rved 



? 



ovatis, nervosis, ven- ventricose, with a very 

 tricosisjbrevissime ros- | short beak, the moutn 

 tellatis, 



emarginato, squama 



ore 



ovato-lanceolata longi 



obsolete j slightly emarginato 



longer than the ovate 

 lanceolate scale. 



oribus. 



*-* 



Sp. pi- 4. p. 279. Pursh, 1. p. 43. Muhl. Gram- p. 247. 



Stem about twelve inches high, glaucous, when old decumbent. Lej^^^-^ 

 narrow, somewhat glaucous. Spike of sterile florets solitary, sometiines, 

 though very rarely, there is a second with fertile florets intermingled. Spifi^^^ 

 of fertile florets two or three, the lowest on a peduncle, the upper nearly se^ 

 sile. The peduncles all sheathed at base. Scale ovate acuminate. Corolla 

 nearly round, distinctly nerved, with the mouth entire and recurved. 



This species I have not seen in this country. In specimens sent me now 

 Pennsylvania by Dr. Muhlenberg, some pubescence is visible on the lea 

 and sometimes on the corolla. 



