200 Monograph of North American Rhyndwsim-a . 



clustered, and its panicle rather appressed than diffused. 

 It is also remarkable for the facility with which it drops its 

 mature glumes ; so that, in a specimen where the seeds are 

 perfect, many of them will be found naked, adhering to their 

 pedicels." Elliott, I. c. It is also closely alUed to R. ajmosa, 

 but it is readily distinguished from that species by its larger, 

 often pedicellate spikelets, plano-convex fruit, and longer 

 bristles. 



6. Rhynchospora inexpansa, Vahl. 



R. culmo subtriquetro, debili ; paniculis subsparsifloris, ramu- 

 lis approxiraato-erectis ; spiculis fusiformibus ; nuce oblonga, 

 compressa, transversim rugosa, setis sursum hispidis dimidio 

 longiori ; tuberculo nuce subtriplo breviore. 



R. inexpansa, Vahl, Enum. 11. p. 233. Elliott,! Bot. S. Car. 

 ^ Georg. I. p. 61. R(Bm. ^Schick. Syst. Veg. II. p. 85. 

 Spreng Syst Veg. I. p. 197. 



Schoenus inexpansus, Michx. Fl. I. p. 35, et Herb..' Muhl. ! 

 Gram. p. 9. 



Culm li— 2 feet high, obscurely triangular, slender, somewhat nodding- 

 Leaves narrow-linear, smooth and short ; cauline ones rather remote, 

 as long as the internodes. Panicles 2 — 4, on filiform subpendulous 

 peduncles. Spikelets fusiform, subfasciculate. Glumes fuscous, 

 ovate, acute. Bristles 6, twice as long as the nut, hispid upward. 

 Stamens 3. Style, long, deeply bifid. Nut oblong, compressed, 

 evenly rugose. Tubercle compressed, acute, with the base about the 

 width of the summit of the nut. 



Hab. Charleston, S. Carolina, Elliott ; Georgia, Dr. Bald- 

 ivin; near New Orleans, Dr. Ingalls. 



7. Rhynchospora multiflora. 



R. culmo triquetro, basi folioso ; paniculis axillaribus termina- 

 libusque, ramis subapproximatis, laxifloris ; spiculis ovatis ; 

 nuce obovata, compressa, valde rugosa, setis sursum hispi- 

 dis duplo breviore. 



