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TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



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•and excepting the point, white, Capitulum composed of many^ 

 imill, compressed heads. Glumes ovate, compressed, rather acute, 

 but not mucronate,very white. 8 amens 3. The mature seed I have 

 not seen. 



For specimens, and obsen^ations on this species I am indebted to 

 Dr. Baldwin, who found it in M'Intosh county, Georgia, and in Flori- 

 da. 



Grows around the margins of ponds and in low pine barrens. 

 Flowers May — June. 



This ^enus is nearls allied to Scirpus ; its seed without bristles, its 

 outer dumes sterile, are accidents that occurin many species of Scir- 

 pus. In habit principally it appears to differ, forming always one 



JterminaK 6es:4ile head« bv the ap-»rrftjiatinn of mnnv *imallt»r hnaria 



TRICHOPHOHUM, Persoon. 



Spicule subovatse, squa- | Spikdets ovate, imbricate 



inis 



8emi 



idiqiie imbricatis. on all sides, with 



lis setulae 



formes, demum 

 nuriiero deiinito 



pilli 



Bristles of the seed hairy, 



longer than the glumes, 

 6 in number. 



1. C 



Jy 



mo obtuse tr 



Stem obtusely 3 an 



quetro, folioso ; panicula gled, leafy ; panicle su 



supradecomposita, pi 

 lifera ; spiculis subtei 



Persoon, 1, p. 69. 



Pursh, l.p 57. 



Enophorum cyperinum, Sp. pi. 1. p. 315 



pradeconipound, prolife- 

 rous ; spikelets generally 



by threes. 



Big. p. 16. 



Mich 



ft)ng. 



Jioof perennial. Stem 2-5 feet high, glabrous. Leaves & 



iiues wide, slightly chaunelled. with tlie mar-in a 



5 feet 



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