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530 MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 



narrow lanceolate, nerved, very acute, somewhat scabrous along the mar- 

 gins. Sterile spike terminal, slender. Fertile spikes two to three, the low- 

 est on a peduncle one to two inches long, the upper ones shorter. Spikes 

 few flowered, the flowers unusually distant (for this genus.) Corolla lance- 

 olate, tapering at each extremity, oblique, obtusely triquetrons, nerved, the 

 mouth nearly entire, about as long as the ovate, acuminate, mucronate scale. 

 Bracteal leaves all much longer than the stem. 

 Grows in damp, shaded soils. Carolina, Dr. Schweinitz. Allied to L. 



Cohoidea? 



Flowers April — May. 



41. Hystericina. Muhl. 



C. spica mascula so- I Sterile spike solita- 

 Utaria, squamis ovato- ry, scales ovate, ob- 

 oblongis sub mucrona- long, slightly nuicro- 

 tis, foemineis cylindra- 1 nate, fertile spikes cy- 

 ceis 2—4, infima longe | lindrical 2—4, the low- 

 pedunculata; fructibus 

 ovatis, multinervibiis, 

 rostratis, ore bifidis 

 squama oblonga crista- 

 ta longioribus. 



est on a long peduncle; 

 fruit ovate, many nerv- 

 ed, beaked, the mouth 

 two-cleft, longer than 

 the oblong awned 

 scale. * 



I 



Sp, pL 4. p. 282. Pitrsh, 1. p. 43. Muhl. Gram, p, 252. Nutt 2. p. 



205. 



Stem about two feet high, triquetrous, scabrous along the angles. Lcave^ 

 long, narrow, scabrous, sheatliing the base of the stem. Sterile spike termi- 

 nal, cylindrical, one to two inches long; scales ovate lanceolate, acute, wi 

 a hispid, setaceous point. Fertile spikes three to four, cylindrical, pedun^ 

 culate, the lower peduncle very long, scabrous, corolla ovate, attenuate i 

 a long, two-cleft beak; scale ovate, small, slightly emarginate, terminat 

 with a hispid, setaceous bristle (mucro) nearly as long as the corolla- ^^ 

 teal leaves all longer than the stem. 



Grows in bogs and wet soils. Carolina, Dr. Schweinitz. 



Flowers April^ — May. 



42. Flexuosa. 



. spicis foemineis j Fertile spikes gene* 



subquaternis, remolis, | rally four, distant, w^ 



