^^ TRTANDRLi BIONOGYNIA, 



ing. Ghmes abruptly obtuse. Style 2 cleft" The umhefs exhibit 



tenerally a yellowish hue, but many of the spikes are tinged near the 

 age with a dull leaden colour. 



Grows in rich soils, near buildings. Vall'Ombrosa, Great Ogechee, 

 and arouud Charleston. In bogs it becomes a large plant, 2—3 feet hi^^h, 

 thick and succulent; in dry soils, even where not sandy, it rareir 

 exceeds 12— 15 inches in height. jj i 



Flouers May— September. Fellow-spiked Cyperiis. 



S2. l)lSTANS. 



C. spicis distichis, spi- | Spikes distidious 

 eiilis hliformibus, patent!- | spike lets filiform, expand 

 bus ; flosculis distantibus ; [ ing ; florets distant ; ura 

 umbella stiicta. Vahl. | bel strait 

 Enum. pi. 2. p. 362. 



Sp. pi. 1. p. 288. 



Pursh, 1. p. 53* / 



cit^iJThis coutr^r^'Thf/^'^ ^f ^' ^^^*^^«^"^' ^"t I have seen no spe^ 

 ^on peduncle! ^ ^''' "^'^'' "''^"^ed in two rows on the cJm- 



rioZ^ '""'^-^ ^'^^ ^'^^ ^oods, Carolina and Georgia.. PurSh.„ 



2». Spec 



ymbose 



*.niP.;ii'^''*'l ^«7»^^^^^i^> I Spikes cor yiuu... 



EmbllM-'-^^' f''''' I ^Pi^^^ts subulate, dis 

 lo^brevioiibus ; ocreis bi- ( shorter than the siiiaU 



lo TLiT'''"''\^^"- i^^'^l^erums ; ocreas 



3 



p. 3647 • P'- '• r° ^^-led ; Stem 



Pursh, 1 p. 53. 



ly agled 



fi 



long, 5-6 lines widf'd"ni''{ ^'?.^"^^ ^"S^^^J- ^^^^'^' ^-^ ^^'* 

 neath ; the mar-ins Li,\T^ ^hanelled, somewliat glaucous under- 



sheath closed, shaveinnlV""^ ^"-'"^ «f *he chalmel serrulate? 

 every side to a common"^./ f^u "i ^"bulate spikelets, attached oa 

 cate.^ M'e4 2!!;8lretf 'U^^ and%ometimes divaria- 



Involucrum many leaved J "aysofthe umbel many, alternate 

 than the partial umbds cZ^ ""^ '. '"^'^^ int-a/ucrims lon^c"- 

 sl^eaths (ocre*) ter ninatin^^n T° V^^^^'l^^ sheathed at base j the 



' ana nearlj an znch long, on the smaller branches 



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