MONOBCIA TRIANDRIA. . 



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1. Oligantha? 



S. culrao gracili, tri- 



foliis 



angustis, nervosis, sca- 

 briusculis, spicis 2 — 3 

 subterininalibus sessi- 



quetro, glabro; 



Stem slender, trique- 

 trous, glabrous; leaves 

 narrow, nerved, slight- 

 scabrous; spikes 2 



3 near the summit 



nuce nitidissima. 



E. 



libus, 1? laterali, remo- of the stem, sessile, one 

 ta, longe pedunculata; | lateral remote, on a 



long peduncle; nut ve 

 ry smooth and polish 

 . ed. 



Mich. 2. p. 167? 



Stem twelve to eighteen inches high, slender, triquetrous, nerved, a little 

 scabrous along the margins and slightly pubescent near the summit. Leaoes 

 hnear, nerved, acute, slightly scabrous on ihe upper surffice, a little pubes- 

 cent near the base and on the sheath, shorter than the stem. Flowers in 

 small fascicles or spikes, two sometimes three, sessile near the summit, one 

 on a long peduncle (two to three inches) near the middle of the stem, each 

 containing one fertile and two to three? sterile florets at its base. Bracteal 

 leaves resembling those of the stem, the two upper ones much longer than 

 the spikes, the Jower sheathing the base of the peduncle. Scales of the 

 sterile florets ovate, acute, very slightly pubescent; of the fertile longer, 

 very acute, glabrous. Seed one, white, very smooth, and polished. 



It appears to me probable that this species is the S. Oligantha of Michaux, 

 for the upper spikes are distinct, which in S. Pauciflora are fasciculate. His 

 silence respecting the seed must, however, leave this uncertain, unless his 

 own herbarium can resolve the doubt. This, however, is not the S. Pauci- 

 flora of Pursh, nor S. No. 4, of Muhl. Gram, p. 268, under which a refer- 

 ence is made to S. Oligantha, Mich, as both of those plants have rugose seeds. 



Grows in wet pastures and pine birrens. St. John's, Dr. Trescotf . 



Flowers May. 



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2. Gracilis. 



E. 



S. culmo filiformi, I Stem filiform, trique- 

 triquetro, foliisque gla- trous, and 



bris 



with 



the 



spiculis paucis 



leaves glabrous 



spikes 



"»*^)^ apiuuiis paucis, J leaves gmurous: spiKe 



paucifloris, fasciculatis, few, few flowered, fas 



subterminalibus 



glu 



nils glabris; nuce laevi 



mtido. 



9 



E. 



ciculate, nearly termi- 

 nal; glumes glabrous; 

 nut smooth, polished. 



