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MONOECIA TRIANDRIA 



587 



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glaucous, perennial, sheath at base open, shorter than the intcrnodes. Plota^ 

 ers in a large termmal pyramidal panicle, the lower branches generally by 

 threes, the upper lanceolate. Flowers sterile and fertile intermin cried the 

 upper florets generally sterile. Of the sterile floret glume 2-valved, valv"s 

 equal, anceolate, slightly mucronate, nerved, serrulate near the summit- 

 laments 6, very short; nectaries 2, minute. Of the fertile floret valves 2 

 unequal lanceolate, mucronate. %/e 1, longer than the interior valve of 



the corolla. S^ftfrmmf <^ o«^^^.,^i „l„i - ' 



stigmas 2. 



^ce^oval^glabrous- 



sit.minnc^^^^ r^^r '^" *'*' preceding, arid grows in similar 



situations^ its leaves are harsh and coarse, eaten, I believe, by no animal 



perennial, and ofa dull glaucous colour. ■ ""^ ''"'^"^'> 



Flowers April — May 



Fluitans. Mich. 



Z. pusilla, ciilmis gra 



cilib 



us 



ramosis; 



foliis 



Plant 

 slender, 

 leaves 



small 



stem 



brandling; 



linear, 



flat 



linearibus, planis; spi- 



cissoJitariisaxillaribusJ spikes solitary,' axilfa 

 setaceis,sub(juadifloris; ry, setaceous, general 

 glumis muticis. | Iv 4.flowered,- glume. 



? 



unawned. 



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Mich. 1. p. 75. Sp. pi. 4. p. 39.1. Pursh, l.p.6l. Nutt. 2. p. 210. 



This species is said by Dr. Baldwin, to be very common in the vicinity of 

 ^avannah. A small, creeping, joi^ited grass, floating whenever the soil on ' 

 wmch It grows is overflowed. I have had no opportunity of examining it 

 wnen m flower, nor of ascertaining whether our Southern plant is really the 

 species described by Michaux. In habit and appe'arance it is totally unlike 

 •ne two preceding species. . 



MYRIOPHYLLUM. 



Gen. Pl. 1440- 



Masculi, 



Calyx 



Sterile florets. 



Ca 



quadrifidus. Petala 4, \ li/x 4-dek Petals 4, 

 caduca. Aytemma 4 s. caducous. Stamens 4 



•Poem in ei 

 Corolla 



or 8. 



Calt/x et Fertile florets 



a 



^ina 4 



mans 



Styli 0, 



Ger 



Cap 



sulce 4, monospermae 



lux and Coi^olla like 

 those of the sterile flo- 

 ret. 

 0. 



^- 



seeded 



Germs 4 

 Capsules 



Styl 



y 



one 



