Monograph of yiurth American Rfnjnchosjjorie. :201 

 Scirpus schoenoides, Elliott, ! Bot. S. Car. ^' Georg. I. p. 89. 



Culm about three feet high, triangular, leafy, especiall}' towards the 

 base. Leaves somewhat coriaceous, glabrous, 2 lines wide ; the lower 

 ones 8 — 10 inches in length; the upper ones much shorter and somewhat 

 distant. Panicles 4 — 5, on somewhat exserted peduncles ; the terminal 

 one largest. Branches of the panicle subapproximate, filiform ; the 

 lower ones nearly 2 inches in length, with a scabrous, setaceous bract 

 at the base of each. Spikelets ovate, small, rather loosely disposed 

 upon the ramuli, on short pedicels or glomerate in twos and threes. 

 Ghimes fuscous, broad-ovate, carinate, with a very short mucro. 

 Bristles 6, twice as long as the nut, strongly hispid upward. Style 

 long, cleft almost to the base. Nut a little exceeding half a line in 

 length, obovate, much compressed, deeply transversely rugose, 

 crowned with a compressed-conic tubercle, nearly one-third its length. 



Hab. New Orleans, T. Drummotid, {v. sp. in Herb. Torr.) ; 

 St. Mary's, Florida, Dr. Baldwin; Georgia, he Cojite ; 

 Gadsden County, Middle Florida, Dr. Chapman. 



Obs. This very distinct species somewhat resembles R. ca- 

 duca ; from which, however, it may be readily distinguished 

 by its more numerous and smaller spikelets, its strong- 

 ly hispid bristles, and its much compressed and deeply ru- 

 gose nut. The herbarium of Dr. Baldwin contains speci- 

 mens of this plant, with II. inexpansa and ll.piatida, under 

 the name of R. pendula. In his manuscript detailed de- 

 scription he has very strangely confused these three spe- 

 cies ; but the plant here described is doubtless the one which 

 he transmitted under this name to Elliott, as a specimen 

 of Scirptis schce/Hoides from Mr. Elliott in the herbarium 

 of Dr. Torrey, agrees in all respects with our plant. This 

 species produces a greater number of nuts than is usual 

 with the genus, on which account Mr. Elliott referred it to 

 the genus Scirpus ; but R. miliacea and R. caduca often 

 ripen nearly the same number. 



8. Rhynchospora patula. 



R. culmo triquetro, superne gracili ; corymbis axillaribus ter- 

 minalibusque, patulis, laxifloris ; .spiculis ovatis ; nuce orbi- 



