TRTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



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grows ev<rv day fhrou5;h a whole season. In their perpetual efforts 

 to throw their leaves to the light tlie roots become exhausted and 

 ponsh, or if a few appear the next spring, they can easily be dug up. 

 This experiment has been successfully tried by John M*Queen,Esa. 



♦f Chatham county. Gpnr«-;.i. -^ » i 



4 5. Repens. 



E. 



C radice repente ; cul 



Root creeping; stem 



be 



iTimis ; umbclla fsim- 



mo triquetro ; foliis gla- j 3 angled ; leaves very 



glabrous ; umbels simple 



and compound ; spikelets 



crowded, linear-lanceot 

 late. 



plici compositaque ; spi- 



confertis, linearis 



culls 

 lanceolatis. 



E. 



stem 



^^oof creeping, throwing out suckers in everv direction. 

 WIS inches high, 3 angled, with the aides conca^'e, and the angles 

 Obtuse. Leaves long, narrow, thick, recurved, channelled, with the 



luvolucrum 3 — 4 leaved, longer than the um^ 



Umbel generally simple. 

 Spikes crowded, narrow. 



margins very entire 



bel, the leaves scabrous along the maro-ins, 

 sometimes a little compound, many rayed. 



12 flowered. "' 



lanceolate 

 Stamens 5 



Hyh 3 cleft. 



Glumes slightly mucronate, yellowish 



^ear to C. hydra, for which it Is sometimes mistaken. It is how- 

 ever a larger plant, and creeps not by tubers, but by fibres from the 

 root. The jnvolucrum is nroportionally much larger, the spikes more 

 crowded, yellow not puinle, wider, and the glumes more pointed 

 than in the C. hydra. ^ l' i tcu 



Grows in the fields and pastures around Charleston. 



n 



■September. 



Creeping Cyperus. 



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i6. TUBEROSUS. 



C. spiculis lineari-lan- 

 ceolatis convexiusculis 

 involucro tr 



? 



phyllo, um- 



Spikelets linear lanceo- 

 late, somewhat convex ; 



eaved, 



rayed 



olucru 



3 



longer than the 



5 



bella quinqueradiata Ion 



giore. Vahl. Enum. pi. | umbel 



S p. 310. 



I'ursh, l.p. 52. 



Rnnfr''l''i?"^ tl'*" "?«^?'"S of rivers from Pennsylvania to CaroKna. 



rom.?^^-^* ?^"''^- ^o""d in Georgia by Dr*. Baldwin. I have 



and fh. A'i''*'" *''^! ^'li,' ^"^ *''« preceding species are the same plant, 

 ana ihiX they arc the C. phymatodes of MuMenberg. 



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