TRIANDT^TA MON^OGYNIA. 



5a 



4 



deeply fringed, in tliis is only sliglitly and irregularly notched {in- 

 cised ) 



Grows in flat pine barrens in tlie middle country of Carolina. Cora* 

 hion. « 



Flowers August — September. Short-leaved Xyris. 



4. JcjNCE^. Baldwin. 



X. fol 



n 



Tieaves terete, hollow. 



tulo 



acutis; scaj)0 te- I anite ; scape terete, 



reti, l)asi vaginato; brae- | slv allied at base; hrac- 



teis s ibmtundis; capitulo 



ovaii. 



B 



oval. 



!y round; head 



Hoot perennial. Stem 6 — 12 inches high. Leaves 4 — 8 inches long. 

 Cnlyji: about as long as the bracteas; tlie keel slightly toothed. 



Fila^ 



'-ments naked. B. 



Orovv's in da»ii,j situations in the pine barrens near St. Mary's 

 .Flowers May — June. 



It 



FUIREXA. Gen. pl. 90. 



Am'entmn imbi 



0- 



lifX 



C 



vulis arista terminatis. 



1. Squarrosa. 



F. fbliis angusro-lani 

 olatis, brevioribu 

 tulis, pluribus (5 

 gregatis ; valvuli 



nis cordato-ova 



Amentum imbricate, with 

 awned scales. Calyx 0. 



Corolla 3 valved, valves 

 terminated with an awn. 



Leaves narrow 



capi 



lan- 

 ceolate, short ; heads 



many, (5 — 6) clustered ; 



valves of tiie corolla cor- 



mu- 



cronatis. 



E 



date-ovate. 



with 



short 



awns. 



Mich. 1. p. sr. 



Stem 1 — 2 feet higli, columnar, firmlj erect, smooth, hairj at the 

 summit. Leaves 3 nerved, scabrous on the up| er surface, smooth on 

 tlie under, distinctly ciliate. Heada many, ovate, agsrej^ate, in clus- 

 ters of 4 — 7, sometimes axillary. Scales of the amerdum oval, nearly- 

 smooth : aw n long, expandinj;:. Val vcs of the corolla pedicellate, cor- 

 date or abruptly rounded at base Awn shorter t!ian the valve. 



brows 1 mile from Bee's Creek, on tlie road to Purvsburg, in wet 



ditches . »' 



Flo wers Septembe r — November. Bough-headed Fuirena. 



