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558 MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 



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Plant about a foot high, very slender, and in my specimens entirely 

 smooth. Leaves linear, very narrow, shorter than the stem. Bracteal leaf 

 resembling those of the root, theee to four inches long. Spikes two or three, 

 clustered together at the summit of the stem, each bearing one fertile floret. 

 Scales ovate lanceolate, slightly mucronate, ferruginous, glabrous. Nut 

 white, showing in some specimens slight longitudinal ribs. 



Collected by Dr. Baldwin near St. Mary^s, Georgia. 



Flowers 



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3. Triglomerata? Mich. 



S. caule triquetro, [ Stem acutely trique- 

 scabrato: foliis lanceo- f trous, rough: leaves 



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lato-linearibus, canali- lanceolate linear, chan- 

 culatis, scabriusculis nelled, somewhat 



parce pilosis; spicis la- rough, a little hairy; 

 teralibus terminalibus- I spikes lateral and ter- 

 que fasciculatis; glumis I minal, fasciculate; 



ciliatis; nuce laevi. E. | glumes fringed; nut 



smooth. 



Sp. pi. 4. p. 319- Mich. 2. p. 168. Muhl. Gram. p. 260. Nutt.2.p. 

 205- 



Stem about two feet high, very acutely triquetrous, striate, scabrous, and 

 a little hairy near the summit. Leaves about twelve =-~^"- ^^^'^ *'^''^*^ ^^ 



hat 

 stem at base. Flowers gei 

 each composed of three or 

 ally pendulous* Bracteal lea 



inches long, three to 

 angles, sheathing the 



icraiiy in out lerrninai and one lateral clu 



four aggregated spikes, the lateral cluster usu- 

 ^Bj ptwuuiwuo* i>icii;iccii leaves much longer than the spikes, pendulous. 

 Calyx of both florets three-valved, valves ovate, carinate, mucronate, some- 

 what unequal, conspicuously fringed. Female florets two or three in eacU 

 spike. Stj/le one. Stigmas three. Seed white, polished, showing some 

 slight inequalities on its surface. 



This is the most common of our species. I have always doubted whether 

 is the S* Triglomerata of Michaux; but it agrees better with that than witJi 



any other of his species. It is not the S. Triglomerata of Pursh 

 Grows in dry soils. 



Flov^ers April — October. 



** JVuce corrugalo. | ** JVut wrinkled* 



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4. PAUCIFLORA. 9^uhL 



S. caule triquetro, | Stem triquetrous and 



