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MONOECIA TRIANDRIA 



Grows In bogs and wet meadows. MuhK 

 Flowers May, 



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44. MiLlACEA. 



C. 



tribus. 



spicis 



foemineis I Fertile spikes three, 



filiformibus, filiform 



9 



the 



upper 



summa subsessili, reli- I nearly sessile, the rest 



quis pedunculatis; frue 

 tibus ovatis, triquetris 

 breve rostratis, ore in- 

 tegris, squama oblonga 



pedunculate; fruit o- 

 vate, triquetrous, with 

 a short beak and en- 

 tire mouth, longer than 



emarginata aristata the oblong emarginate 



lonsioribus. 



awned scale. 



i 



Sp. pi 4. p. 290. Pursh, I. p. 44. Muhl. Gram. p. 257- Nutt. 2. p. 

 205. 



Stem slender, triquetrous, scabrous along the angles. Leaves linear, 



acute, scabrous along the margins. Sj)ikes slender, sterile, one terminal; 



fertile two to three, the lower on a long peduncle, pendulous; the upper 



sometimes sessile, when on peduncles pendulous also. Bracteal leaf to the 



lower spike longer than the stem, to the upper small! Scales of the fertile 



florets emarginate with a raucronate point. Corolla ovate, with only the 



lateral nerves, the summit acute and nearly entire, longer than the scale. 



Grows in wet meadows, Canada to Carolina. Pursh. 

 Flowers — 



/ 



45. FuRCATA. 



E. 



J- 



C. spicis foemineis I Fertile spikes three 

 tribus, pedunculatis, I pedunculate, pendulous 



9 



pendulis, cylindricis, 

 iructibus ovato-lanceo- 



cylindrical; fruit ovate 



latis 

 tis 



lanceolate. 



beaked 



f 



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prijiium 



, rostratis, furca- forlced, at first shorter, 

 squama subulata, i finally longer than the 



subulata, 

 brevioribus 



demum longioribus. 



subulate scale. 



f- Pseudo Cypenis? Piush, 1. p. 44. Walt. p. 



