76 TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 



Stem 



, . r 7- 5 inches high, slight- 



ly tmrowed. Leaves 0, but a sheath surrounding the base of the stem. 



Midnb of the glumes green | sides ferruginous; margins white, mem- 

 branous; the two lower scales generally shorter. Filaments^. Germ 

 crowned with a small conic tubercle. Style 2—3 cleft. BHstles 6, 

 pellucid, a little longer than the germ. 



Grows in patches sometimes 1 and 2 feet in diameter, clothing the 



f round like mos- —^ --'• *> 



oned hy water. 

 Flowers March— June. ^ Minute Scirjtus. 



S. Trichodes. Muhl. Cat 



ciilmo setaceoj spi- I Stem setaceous; spikes 



ovato-lanceolatis* e" 



ha\ 



b 



„ lanceolate; glumes 



mis subobtusis ; semine generally obtuse : seed 

 tnquctro. E. | 3 anded 



S. acicularis? Pursh, 1. p. 54, 



htTZ!Z^ ' K-^' '^If^^' ^^t^<^eo"s, glabrous. Glumes ovate-lanceo- 

 tub^VcIe ;^^^^ ^^'^ ^'^^^^^' ' -S»^<^' longitudinally ribbed? 



FlowSune™ pf '™'^' ^^^^^^ ^J ^'' Trescott, near Charleston, 



Hear 



3. Simplex. E 



.ut '^"Z"'^/^''!** ? spica [ Stem columnar ; spike 

 subovata;glumisobtusis; somewhat ovate ; dumes 

 semme obovato, tilque- obtuse : seed obovate, 



Soot perennial, aim erect, 8—1 

 li*en examined with a lens.) Leaf 

 at the base of the stem. Glump^ Jh 



B 



led 



at the base of the st^m ri' \ ' ^ ^ ^^^''^ marcescent siieatu 

 rib scarcely di.tinrf 3"^*' ^'^^^^^te, obtuse, nearly white; mid- 

 iSfe/crwnidwthfv. '^"n\^' f'^^^^y feathered, glandular, 

 lar, as loBg as S seed''^ '" '"^'"'^ '"^''^^" ^'''^'' Sl^ndu- 



but'^dTfferi Vuct t^ 'S t', ^Z'''^' '"^"^'y '^ S- ^^P'"^^^"'' 

 sembles S tubcrculJnt ' • ^ ]*' ''^^"'^ ^P^'^e and glumes. Be-' 



Flower; thrS Ue summr ' '^^''''''''' ^^^ ^i«-^ - ^he seed. 



4. FiLIFORMIS. 



Sf ".^ '^' "1."*"''' "^t"^". ^ith the scales 



subiotundis ; semmibus, | nearly round : seeds 



