MONOECIA TRIANDRIA 



549 



Grows in barren meadows and woods, from Canada to Carolina. Pursh 



Flowers in May. ^ 



39. Tetanica. 



C. 



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spicis foemineis I Fertile spikes two, 

 biais, remotis, suprema | distant, the upper near, 

 subsessili, infima longe j ly sessile, the lowest on 

 pedunculata; friictibus a long peduncle; fruit 

 ovatis, utrinque acutis ovate, acute at each 

 apice recurvis, ore in- 

 tegris, squama obtusa 

 ovata longioribus. 



end 



recurved at the 



summit, entire at the 

 mouth, longer than the 

 scale. 



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Pursh, 1. p. 43. Muhl. Gram. p. 250. Nutt. 2. p. 205- 

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



^ Stem .twelve to eighteen inches high, slender, triquetrous, glabrous. 

 Leaves hnear, acute, much shorter than the. stem. Spikes few, small; ste- 

 rile one terminal, fertile generally two, very distant, one nearly sessile to- 

 wards the summit of the stem, the lower pedunculate, erect. Scales of the 



sterile 



Corolla tri- 



quetrous, acute at each end, distinctly nerved, somewhat oblique. 



Grows in Carolina. Mich. Sent to me from North-Carolina by Dr. 

 Schweinitz. 



Flowers 



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40. Laxiplora. La Marck? 



C. spicis foemineis I Fertile spikes three, 

 tribus, distantibus, 6 — distant, 6 — 8 flowered, 

 8 floris, infima remote the lowest distant, pe- 

 pedunculata; fructibus duncled; fruit oblong 



oblon 



gis 



ventricosis, ventricose, 



obtuse 



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obtusis, squama ovata larger than the ovate 

 niucronata niajoribus. I mucronate scale. 



Sp, pi, 4, p. 281. Pursh, 1. p. 43. Muhl. Gram. p. 251. Nutt. 2. p, 



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Stem one to two feet high, tri(juetrouS| with the margin scabrous. Leaver 



