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MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 555 



Sp, pi. 4. p. 306. Muhl. Gram. p. 259. 



Stem about two feet high, triquetrous, smooth, scabrous on the edges to- 

 wards the summit. Leaves longer than the stem, strap-shaped, the lower 

 formmg short sheaths at base, the upper nearly amplexicaule, scabrous along 

 the margin. Spikes dioecious and androgynous. Male spikes generally 

 four, each about two inches long; scales tapering to an acute point, chaffy, 

 scarious. Androg: spikes two to three inches long, erect, on moderately 

 long peduncles, the lower one enclosed at base in a short sheath, the two 

 upper merely enveloped. Scale ovate, tapering to an acute point, at first 

 shorter than the corolla, when mature rather exceeding it in length. Co- 

 rolla ovate, slightly acuminate, nerved but not very conspicuouslyi^two-ckft 

 at the summit. Stigmas three, long, glandular. Seed triquetrous. 



Grows in the fresh marshes and rice field ditches. Ogeechee. 



Flowers March — April. 



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49. Verrucosa. Mulil.? 



C. spicis masculis 



tribus, foemineis pluri 

 mis (4 — 6), erectis, cy- 



Sterile spikes three, 



fertiJe numerous 



6), erect, cylindrical 



lindraceis, apice mas- bearing sterile flowers 

 culis; corollis compres- at the summit; corolla 

 sis, ovatis, brevissime [ compressed, ' ovate, 

 bifidis, squama ovata, | slightly two-cleft, shor- 

 subemarginata, mucro- 

 nata brevioribus. E. 



ter than the ovate, 



somewhat e margin ate, 

 mucronate scale. 



Muhl. Gram* p. 26l, 



Stem two to three feet high, triquetrous, glabrous. Leaves very long, , 

 acute, nerved, somewhat glaucous, sheathing the base of the stem. Sterile 

 spikes generally three, the terminal one two to three inches long, cylindrical, 

 very obtuse, scale ovate muci;pnate, dark brown; fertile spikes three to six, 

 t^o to three inches long, all terminated with sterile flowers. Lower pedun- 

 cle about one and a half inches long, sheathed at base; the upper shorter^ 

 nearly surrounded by the long bracteal leaves- Scale ovate, obtuse, some- 

 times emarginate, mucronate, dark brown. Corolla ovate, obscurely nerv- 

 ed, glaucous, with a very short, slightly cleft mouth, about as long as the 

 scale exclusive of the mucronate point. Seed triquetrous. 



Collected many years ago along the road between Stono and Combaheo 

 **erry; probably at the latter place. 



flowers April. 



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