OF NORTH AMERICA. & 



rough, sheaths scariose mutic ; racemes many 

 peduncled ovate and oblong, flowers fasciculate 

 crowded. One of the sp. akin to P. D. lapa- 

 thifol. bipedal, very branched* leaves 2 or 3 

 inches long, spikes uncial or less, with a rough 

 pubescence, /lowers estiva I incarnate, seeds 

 round flat with a hollow in each side and a thick 

 obtuse edge. In Kentucky, Illinois &c. The 

 Discvlenta. xcabra ft. tel. 430 is a very different 

 plant, perhaps even a Dioctis, and being smooth, 

 it was by a mistake I described it for this: it 

 must be called P. or D. pwnctata being quite so 

 aud probably P. punctatum of Elliot. 



853. PEUTALIS HETEROPHYLA liaf. smooth 

 erect, lower leaves p etiolate, oboval, or elliptic, 

 ciliat c sometimes retuse, broadly Lanceolate, up- 

 per suthsessile narrow, all glaucous beneath *nd 

 with smooth margins, sheaJLhs pilose ciliate ; ra- 

 cemes short pauciflore compact, sheaths scari- 

 ose smooth. Singular sp. disc. 1824 in Alie- 

 ghany JVf ts. of Virginia, perennial, lower leaves 

 small Uncial quite ciliate, medial large triuncial, 

 ciliate only at base, upper not ciliate ? flowers 

 of a dirty incarnate geminate in small racemes, 

 seeds lenticular ovate obtuse. 



854. PEUTALIB GLOMERATA Rat* smooth de- 

 cumbent ramose diffuse, leaves sessile shortly 

 lanceolate obtuse, margin smooth, sheaths mu- 

 ttc, flowers in numerous terminal glornerules, 

 like little heads, sessile or ped uncled pauciffore, 

 flowers subsessile in Pennsylvania and Virgin- 

 ia, annual, branches and leaves crowded, stem 

 spreading about one foot, leaves small uncial, 

 heads of flowers axil, or terminal, often inter- 

 rupted divided in glomerules, flowers autumnal 

 greenish white, seeds lenticular ovate, edges ob- 

 tuse. 



