656 



MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 



50. BULLATA? 



C. 



erect; 



spicis masculis I Sterile spikes three 

 tribus, foemineis binis, fertile two, cylindrical 

 cylindraceis, peduncu- pedunculate, 

 latis, erectis; fructibus j fruit ovate, globose, 

 ovato-globosis, rostra- 

 tis, bifurcatis, rostris 

 hispid is, squama lance 

 olata majoribus. 



beaked, two-forked, 

 (the beaks hispid,) lar- 

 ger than the lanceolate 

 scale. 



Sp. pi. 4. p. 309. Pursh, 1. p. 45. Nutt. 2, p. 295. 



Stem about two feet high, slender, acutely triquetrous, slightly scabrous 

 on the margins. Leaves narrow, longer than the stem, somewhat channel- 

 ' led, scabrous along the edges, with a very short sheath at base. Male 

 spikes frequently but two, slender, scales lanceolate, rather obtuse, the sum- 

 mit and margins membranaceous. Female spikes two, a little distant, 

 erect, cylindrical, on short peduncles merely enveloped at base. Scales 

 lanceolate, acute. Corolla ovate, almost globular at base with an attenu- 

 ated two-cleft beak, nerved, the nerves pubescent near the summit. Stig' 

 mas three. Seed triquetrous. 



This plant differs but not materially from the description of Willdenow. 



I have had n6 opportunity of comparing specimens. 



Grows in bay galls and ditches. Near Beverly, Chatham county, Geo. 

 Flowers April. 



SCLERIA. Gen. Pl. 1408. 



3Iasculi — Calicis 1 Sterile Jlorets 



Ca' 



luma 

 multiflora. 

 glumae muticae. 



s. 6 valvis. 



Corolke 



Foeminei — Calicis 



s. 6 valvis. 

 Corolla 0. 



gluma 

 uniflora. 



StiQ-mata 1 



3. 



Nux 



lyx 2 



or 



6 valved, 



many flowered. Valves 

 of the corolla unawned. 



Fertile Jlorets 

 lyx 2, or 6 valved 



Ca 





flowered. 

 St ig-mas 



1 



Corolla 0. 

 3. Nut 



colorata subglobosa. I generally globular 



* Nuce Idem. 



* Nut smooth. 



