660 



MONOECIA TRIANDRIA 



natej unequal,' ferruginous^ the exterior slightly fringed 

 roughened with small tubercles, very slightly raucronate. 



Grows in damp soils. 



Flowers May-^June. 



Nut globular. 



6. HiRTELLA. Mich. 



J 



"l 



S. caule erecto, gra- 

 cilis foliisque bracteis- 



que 



hirsiitulis 



? 



spicis 



I 



I 



Stem erect, slender, 

 and with the leaves and 

 bracteas slightly hir- 

 sute; spikes terminal 



5 



teriiiinalibus, axillari- 



busque; glumis pubes- I and axillary; glumes 

 centibus; nucibus pubescent; seed trans- 



transversim corruga- versely wrinkled. 



tis. 



E. 



Mich. 2. p. 168. Sp. pi. 4. p. 3] 8. Pursh, 1 . p. 46. Nutt. 2. p. 205. 



Stem about eighteen inches high, triquetrous, hairy, particularly along the 

 margins. Leaves narrow, channelled, shorter than the stem, hairy. Spik^^ 

 two to three, near the summits of the stem, distinct, not fasciculated, W'th 

 sometimes a small axillary spike near the base of the stem. Bracteal leaves 

 much longer than the spikes, hairy and conspicuously fringed. Ghmei 

 ovate, acuminate, unequal, pubescent. Nuts globular, roughened chiefly by 

 irregular transverse elevated lines. 



Grows in damp soils. 

 • Flowers in the summer. 



/ 



Var. Steigosa. 



but 



Under this head I will place a plant nearly allied in its characters, om 

 less hairy excepting along the angles of the stem and the margins and midnb 

 of the leaves, its spikes also are larger and more numerous, its glumes fring- 

 ed, of a light chestnut colour, and the nut rather roughened by distinct tuber- 

 cles than by transverse lines. 



Collected by Dr. Baldwin on the confines of Georgia and Florida; pC""' 

 haps a distinct species. 



7. Reticulata. 



S. culmo 



Mich 



foliisque 

 glabris; vaginis alatis; 



spicis sparsis axillari 

 bus 



Stem 

 fflabrous 



ed 



and 



leaves 



J 



sheaths wing- 



spikes 



scattered, 



terminalibusque; axillary and termma*?' 



