TRIANDRIA MONOGYNlA. 73 



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they resemble awns. Glumes oblong appressed. Filaments 3. Style 

 3 cleft, iieed 3 augled, compressed, slightly incurved. 



Grows in ditches and wet places. 



Flowers August — October. 



S4. Enslenii. Pursh. 



C. spicis corymbosis, 1 Spikes corymbose, ob- 

 oblon^s, basi ramosis, | long, branching at base, 

 nudis; spiculis nuniero- I naked ; spikelets nume- 

 sis, divaricatis, confer- | rous, divaricate, crowded, 

 tis, linearibus, subsexflo- j linear, generally six flow- 

 ris ; valvulis oblongis, | ered j valves oblong, stri- 

 strJatis j involucro octo- ate ; involucrum 8 leav 

 pbyllo, unibellam subse- j ed, as Ions: as the umbel 

 qiiante. Pursh, i.p. 53. 



Stem 5 angled. Leaves linear, 3 nerved, glabrous, with the keel 

 and margin scabrous, shorter than the stem. Involucrum, about 8 

 leaved, the interior shorter, the exterior longer than the /avs of the 

 the umbel. Spikelets very numerous, horizontal, chesnut-coloured/ 

 Is it a variety ot C. speciosus .? Pursh. 



Grows in ditches and around ponds. 



Flowers August. 



DULICHIUM. Richard. 



S^zc^ subracemosse, ex | Spikes somewhat race, 

 axillis foliorum. Spicu- | mose, growing from the 

 /<plineari-lanceolat3e,sub- axils of the leaves. Spike. 

 compress^. Stylus Ion- j ^^^5linearJanceolate,com- 

 gissimus, bifidiis. Ger. pressed. %?e very long,2 

 minis setulae retrorsimi J cleft. Bristles of therav/? 



aspei 



1. Spathac 



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hened 



, D. ciilmo tereU, trifa- [ Stem columnar, with 

 nam fohoso ; spiculis pa- leaves pointing in three 

 tuiis, subulatis, in race- directions ; spikelets ex- 

 inis axUlaribus. E. | pandin^^, subulate, in ax- 



Persbon, 1. p. 6a. 



Cyperus spathaceus, Sp. pi. 1. p. 989. Big. p. 13. 

 Clayton, p. 9. No. 562. '^ *^ « ^ 



!?cirpus spathaceus, Mich. 1. n. S2. 



illary racemes. 



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