CYPERACE^E. (SEDGE FAMILY.) 



2. I. ciliatifolia, Torr. Culms tufted, filiform, angled (G'-12' high); 

 leaves bristle-form, hispid on the edges, the sheaths bearded at the throat; um- 

 bel compound; spikes several (l"-2" long), 6-12-flowered, linear-oblong; 

 scales oval, strongly keeled, brown on the sides ; nut obovate, very obtuse, 

 nearly equal-sided, obscurely wrinkled. (Scirpus ciiiatifolius, Ell.) Dry sandy 

 places, Florida to North Carolina. Aug. and Sept. 



3. I. coarctata, Torr. Culms (1 high) terete, filiform ; leaves bristle- 

 form, smooth, with the sheaths bearded ; umbel compound, contracted ; spikes 

 (3" long) linear-oblong, 1 - 1 5-flowered ; scales ovate, acutish, imbricated in 4 

 rows ; nut flat on the inner face, obtuse-angled in front, obscurely dotted. ( Scir- 

 pus coarctatus, Ell.) Dry sandy soil, Georgia and South Carolina, near the 

 coast. Sept. and Oct. Rays of the umbel f long. 



* * Spikes clustered in a terminal head. 



4. I. stenophylla, Torr. Culms (2' -4' high) densely tufted, 3-angled, 

 and, with the bristle-form leaves and involucre, bristly-ciliate ; involucre much 

 longer than the head, 3 - 4-leaved, dilated and ciliate at the base ; spikes 4-6, 

 oblong-linear, 8-10-flowered ; scales lance-ovate, slender-pointed, hispid on the 

 3-nerved keel ; nut (bluish) obovate, obtuse, wrinkled. (Scirpus stenophyllus, 

 Ell.) Dry sandy soil, Florida to North Carolina, Aug. and Sept. 



5. I. Warei, Torr. Culms filiform (l-l high), smooth, 3-angled, 

 much longer than the bristle-form hispid leaves ; sheaths bearded at the throat 

 with long silky hairs ; leaves of the involucre rigid, twice as long as the head, 

 orbicular and cut-fringed at the base; spikes 8-10 in a head, ovate, many-flow- 

 ered ; scales ovate, mucronate, many-nerved ; nut obovate, obtusely angled, 

 obscurely wrinkled. Dry sands near the coast, West Florida. Sept. Heads 

 ' in diameter. 



13. ABILGAARDIA, Vahl. 



Spikes many-flowered. Scales imbricated in 2 or (by the twisting of the 

 rachis) 3 rows, keeled, decurrent on the rachis, deciduous. Perianth none. 

 Stamens 1-3. Style 3-cleft, tumid at the base, deciduous. Nut 3-angled. 

 Culms jointless, leafy at the base. Spikes solitary, clustered or umbelled. 



1. A. monostachya, Vahl. Culms filiform, tufted (6' - 10' high) ; leaves 

 shorter than the culm, filiform, obtuse, concave; spikes solitary (rarely by pairs), 

 ovate, acute, compressed, 8- 12-flowered, much longer than the bract-like mu- 

 cronate 1 -leaved involucre ; scales broadly ovate, acute or mucronate, compressed- 

 keeled, with broad and white margins ; stamens 3 ; nut somewhat pear-shaped, 

 3-angled, warty, yellowish-white. South Florida, Dr. Blodyett. 



14. RHYNCHOSPORA, Vahl. BEAK-RUSH. 



Spikes 1 -several-flowered. Scales imbricated in few rows, the lowest empty, 

 the upper usually bearing imperfect flowers. Perianth of 3 - 6 (rarely 12-20) 

 hispid or plumose bristles, occasionally wanting. Stamens mostly 3. Stylo 

 2-cleft. Nut lenticular or globose, crowned with the dilated and persistent baso 



