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TRIANDRTA MONOGYNIA. ^y 



vertice nudis ; ciilmis fili- I naked at the summit; 

 formibus, teretibus. Vahl. | stems filiform, terete. 

 Enum. pi. 2, p. 248. . 



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Pursh, 1* p, 54. 



Grows in wet places, ditches, &C# from New Jersey to Carolina. 

 Pursh, 



Flowers July — August. 





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5. Paltjstris. 



^ S. culmo tereti, striate, [ &em columnar, striate, 

 nitido ; spica oblongo- shining ; spike oblong- 

 lanceolata ; glumis sub- | lanceolate ; glumes some- 

 obtusis 5* semine oboVato, what obtuse ; seed obo- 

 compresso, glabro ; se- | vate, a little compressed, 

 tulis scabris. E. | glabrous j bristles sca- 



brous. 



Sp. pi. 1. p. 291. Pursh, 1. p. 54. 



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Hoot creeping, perennial. Stem 1 — 2 feet high, verj glabrous. 



I^af 0, but generally 3 sheaths enclose the stem ; the interior 6 8 



inches long, glabrous, obliquely truncate, toothed at the summit, 

 closed ; the £ exterior loose, maicescent, much shorter. J^pike often 



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^^erf crowned with a compressed conical tubercle, a Tittle smaller than 



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the germ. Bristles 3 — 4, longer tlian the germ, roughened with 



sniall teeth ? bent backwards. 

 Grows in rice fields, fresh marshes, &c. 

 Flowers April— May, JBog Scvrpus. 



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6. Geniculatus. 



S. spica ovato-oblonga, I Spike ovate-oblong, 

 squamis ovato-subrotun- | scales ovate and nearly 

 dis ; culmis teretibus, ap- round ; stems terete, 

 proximate interstmctis. growing in distinct clusl 

 Vahl. Enum. pi. 3. p. s.50. | ters. 



Sp. pi, 1. p. 291. Pursh, 1. p, 55, 



Grows on the sea shore of South-Ca^olina- Pursh. 



'lowers July. 



7* Capitatus. 



S. culmo subtereti, I Stem nearly columnai^, 

 ^mcato 5 spica obtusissi- | furrowed 5 spike obtusely 



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