264 Monograph of North American Rhynchosjjora. 



setis sursum hispidulis paiilo breviore ; tuberculo compresso- 

 conico. 

 R. punctata, Elliott, Bof. S. Car. Sf Georg. I. p. 60. Rce7n. ^ 

 Schult. Mant. II. p. 51. Sprerig. Syst. Veg. I. p. 196. 

 (excl. syn.) 



Cuhn slender, triangular, 1 — 2 feet high. Radical leaves not seen ; 

 cauline ones 1 — 2 inches in length, linear-lanceolate, acute. Co- 

 rymbs 3 — 4, lateral and terminal, fascicled; the lateral ones sub- 

 simple, distant and long-peduncled. Fascicles subtended by short 

 setaceous and rigid bracts. Spilcelets ovate. Glumes chesnut-co- 

 loured, ovate, the lower ones mucronate. Bristles 6, a little exceed- 

 ing the nut, slightly hispid upward. Stamens 3. Nut ovate, com- 

 pressed, reticulately rugose, with impressed alveoli. Tubercle com- 

 pressed-conic, shorter than the nut. 



Hab. Savannah, Georgia ; and St. Mary's, Florida, Dr. Bald- 

 wiii. Flowers May — June. 



Obs. In the specimens collected in Florida by the late Dr. 

 Baldwin, the discoverer of this species, the lateral corymbs 

 are distant and not clustered together at the summit of the 

 culm. Except in this unimportant variation, the plant I have 

 described agrees in every respect with the detailed descrip- 

 tion of Elliott, who also obtained his specimens from Dr. 

 Baldwin. 



12. Rhynchospora Elliottii. 



R culmo triquetro ; corymbis fasciculatis, paucifloris ; spiculis 

 ovato-oblongis ; nuce subgloboso-ovata, laevissime rugulosa, 

 setis sursum hispidis paulo breviore ; tuberculo brevi, de- 

 presso-conico. 



R. distans, Elliott, Bot. S. Car. ^ Georg. I. p. 59, (excl. syn.) 

 7ion Vahl. 



Schoenus distans, Muhl. Gram. p. 10. 



S. fuscus, Muhl. Gram. p. 6. 



Culm 1 — 2 feet high, rather slender, exactly triquetrous. Leaves narrow- 

 linear, flat, glabrous. Corymbs 3 — 4, terminal and lateral, exsertly 



