88 TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. - 



Stem 2—5 feet high, glabrous, 5 angled, leafy, Leaves rather lon^ 

 and somewhatlanceolate, slightly channelled, with margins serrulate; 

 sheath loose but closed ; stipules 0. Flowers in asillary umbels ; 

 common peduncle much longer than the sheath, slender, weak, 

 Glumes ferruginous, pointed by the gre«n jnidrib. Stamens 3. SbjU 

 3 cleft. Seeds 5 angled, naked. 



I can perceive no diPference between this plant and a specimen d 

 tlie S. pendulus sent me from Lancaster by Dr. Muhlenberg himself. 

 In both, even the umbels are erect. It is therefore probable from its 

 slender peduncles, that the flowers which are at first erect, become 

 pendulous with age. 



Grows in damp soils, pine barrens, Sec. Found in Georgia. Dr;. 

 Baldwin. 



Flowers June — August. 



Leafij 



S9. IDlVARICATUS. E. 



S. culmo obtuse trique- [ . Stem obtusely 3 an- 

 tro ; umbellis decomposi- gled ; umbels decora- 

 tls, divaricatis; spicis ova- pound, divaricate ; spikes 

 Mbus, pendulis. E. j oval, pendulous, 



fi^^em erect, 3-^ feet high, glabrous. Leaves 6—14 inches long. 

 3--4 lines wide, flat, glabrous, with the margins finely serrulate; 

 sheath at base short, scarcely one inch long, closed. Stipule 0. l^'«- 

 ftfUarge, decompound, terminal; branches crowded, divaricate, pen- 

 dulous. Glumes ovate, acute, slishtly keeled, glabrous, the midrib 

 green, the sides white. %Zg 3 cleft. S^eei acutely 3 angled, acute 

 at each end. •' ° 



Grows in the pine barren between Bee's Creek and Purysburgli. 

 Flowers May— June, nh^.nrlrrJ Scirms, 



30. POLYPHYLLUS. 



S spicis caphulisque I Spikes and heads near- 

 subglobosis, glomerutis;ly globose, clustered; 

 corymbo terminali ; cul- cotymb terminal ', stem 

 iBofolioso, Vahl. Enum. leafy 

 pi. 3. p. 274. ^ ^' 



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