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pedunculate, nearly simple and few-flowered. Spikelets fasciculate, 

 sessile, ovate or oblong-ovate. Glumes light chesnut-coloured, ovate ; 

 the interior ones mucronate. Bristles 6, hispid upward, fuscous, a 

 little longer than the nut, but scarcely exceeding the tubercle. Sta- 

 mens 3 — 6. Style very long, deeply bifid. Nut brownish red, sub- 

 globosely ovate, a little attenuate at the base and slightly produced at 

 the summit; under a lens appearing minutely transversely rugose, 

 but to the naked eye nearly smooth. Tubercle very short, depressed- 

 conic. 



Hab. In damp savannahs, Wilmington, North CaroUna, Mr. 

 Curtis; Havanna, Georgia, and New Smyrna, Florida? 

 Dr. Baldivin, {sub. nam. 11. distons.) ; Gadsden County, 

 Middle Florida, Dr. Chapman. 



Obs. This species, which is well described by the distinguished 

 botanist whose name it bears, differs widely from Schcemis 

 distans of IVIichaux. It is compared by Elliott with his R. 

 punctata, which indeed it somewhat resembles, but the two 

 species cannot be confounded. The light chesnut-coloured 

 spikelets in this species are quite remarkable. There is a 

 specimen of this plant in Muhlenberg's herbarium, labelled 

 " Schccrius fuscus, Elliott f and from this specimen the de- 

 tailed description of »S. Juscus, Muhl. Gram, was probably 

 drawn, as it compares quite well with this species, and not 

 at all with S.fuscus, Linn. There is no specimen under the 

 name of *S'. distans in Muhlenberg's herbarium ; but as he 

 asks whether his S. fuscus may not be S. distans, Michx. 

 and as he probably drew his description from specimens sent 

 either by Elliott or Dr. Baldwin, I cannot doubt that the sy- 

 nonym is properly referred. 



* * Nut not rugose. 

 13. Rhynchospora corniculata. 



R. corymbis decompositis, diffusis ; spiculis (magnis) laxe fas- 

 ciculatis ; nuce obovata, laevi, stylo persistente multo brevi- 

 ore, setis subulatis, inequalibus, sursum hispidulis, longiori. 



