554 



MONOECIA TRIANDRIA 



Grows around pine barren ponds 

 Flowers April — May. , 



d is t metis; 

 pluribus. 



Spicis sexu 



I 



masculis 



#»* Spikes dis- 

 tinct; sterile spikes nu- 



merous. 



47. Pellita. 



\ 



C. 



spicis 



masculis 



geminis, foemineis ge- 

 minis cylindraceis, 



Sterile spikes two 

 fertile two, cylindrical 

 erect, remote, the up 



J 



erectis, remotis, supe- per sessile; fruit 

 riore sessili; fructibus two-cleft 



hairy, shorter 



ovatis, bifidis, pilosis, j than the oblong awned 

 squama oblonga aris- 



scale. 



tata brevioribus. 



Sp. pi. 4. p. 302. Pursh, 1. p. 44. Muhl. Gram. p. 258. Nutt. 2. p. 

 205. 

 C. Striata? Mich. 2. p. 174. 



Stem eighteen to twenty-four inches high, triquetrous. Leaves linear, 

 long, scabrous along the margins. Sterile spikes two to four, the upper pe- 

 dunculate, the lower sessile, scale ovate, obtuse, ferruginous with a darker 

 midrib. Fertile spikes two to three, the upper sessile, the lower on pedun- 

 cles, erect; scales lanceolate, mucronate. Corolla ovate, very hispid, acu- 

 minate, the point short, two-cleft. 



Grows in damp woods, Pursh. In Carolina, Mich. i 



Flowers — 



48. RiPARIA. 



c. 



qiiaternis; 



spicis masculis 



Ster 



spikes 



four 



J 



foemineis fertile three, erect, on 



tribus, erectis, pedun- 

 culatis, apice masculis; 

 fructibus ovato-oblon- 

 gis, nervosis, bifurca- 

 tis, squama mucrouata 



peduncles, bearing ste 

 rile flowers at the sum 



5 



fruit ovate 



ob 



mit 



long, iicivcw, ^ 



a little shorter than tlie 



nerved, 2-forked 



3 



paiilo brevioribus* E. I mucronate 



