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pletely covered a the pale ~_— capillary = of this 
ea 1-2 fee ee As the water recedes 
in n, the erect flowering avers bei n air form, 
cover the remaining mud with grayish ‘spiderweb-like fila- 
ments. e Sieve are nearly 2 lines long, the (immature) 
capsule is prismatic with concave sides; the seeds, too imper- 
ect to make out their — were 0.27-0.30 line long, 
ent ven the size of ne 
the ca and appears to stand next to its var. Jluitans; but 
. J. Evtiorri, Chapman Flor. South. St. 494: caulibus 
( 12. _pedalibus) cespitosis erectis folia tenuia longe excedenti- 
ar panicula composita vel decomposita subpatente ; capitulis 
tious stamina 8 tertia parte superantibus capsulam late ovatam 
obtusam brevissime mucronu ulatam l-locularem atrofuscam 
fi 
EF orth Carolina, Canby, to South Carolina, Ravenel, 
Beyrich (distributed under the name J. acuminatus), Florida, 
Chapman, Hb. norm, 54, Alabama, Swllivant, and southern 
Mississippi, 4. Hilgard—Many slender stems spring from a 
short rhizoma, which bears numerous lon fibrous rootlets 
(under water?); panicle usually 3-4 inches long, with a few 
principal branches; fruit-heads (trom the broad, blunt capsules) 
obtuse, 2 or 24 lines in diameter; flowers 1.0-1.2 lines long, 
greenish, turning brown; capsule usual] dark colored 
and shining, rarely paler; seeds easily dstingtished by their 
dark color and slender form, mostly long and 
one-third as much in diameter; 5 or 6 ribs quite: mens ean 
This is one of our earliest species, flowering in April and May. 
39. J. acuminatvs, Michx. 1, 192, non Gray, Man. nee auct. 
a plur.: caulibus cxspitosis plerumque erectis; panicula 
plus ao nus composita; capitulis pauci- vel multifloris 
nallidee sepe demum stramineo-fuscatis; sepalis lanceolato- 
