478 TRANS. OF THE ACAD. OF SCIENCE. 
longioribus ; ovario lineari-lanceolato in stylum perbrevem 
sensim abeunte, stigmatibus exsertis; capsula obtuse triangu- 
lata pyramidata acutata atro-rubente lucida semitriloculari 
longe exserta; seminibus bap egg a mrp aa longe 
caudatis.—J. erythrocarpus, Chapm. olim in se 
South-eastern and petty States, plac South fe ake 
Curtis, Ravenel, Hb. n. 89, to Florida, Cha : 
Alabama, Bigelow, ant teginsnn: Hale; fi. Sept. & fr. Oct.— 
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number and larger seeds. Rigid cespitose stems “from a 
thick and creeping rhizoma” Sekar i panicles in most of 
ly erect. and quite elongated,—in others more open it- 
eads 2-4 lines in diameter, with 2-4 or 5 flowers a: wers 
ve 
capsule much longer, sometimes twice as long as flowers, 
i Seat pyramidal from an oval base, deep red brown or al- 
l number of stamens is quite variable, but 
chore frequently 3 than 6; in 40 flowers of eight different spe- 
oe from all the localities mentioned above, I have found 
only 4 with 6, 9 with 5, 11 with 4, and 16 with 3 stamens, 
and in no instance did all the flowers of one plant exhibit the 
same number of stamens. Seeds, without the appendages, 
numerous and close.—This maj posi ‘be the same as si tri- 
onocarpus, Steud. Glum. 2, p. 308, of which I have not been 
able to obtain a specimen or a satisfactory description. 
46. J. aspER, n. sp.. caulibus (bipedalibus et ultra) cxespi- 
tosis teretibus cum foliis Oe gona sorrs compo- 
site seu decomposite ramis erecto-patulis; capitulis pauc i- 
(2-6)floris ; sepalis late lanceclato-aubulatis rigidis mu alti tiner- 
triangulari rostrata rufo- vel virescenti-fa sida semitri- 
loculari hed pes vix excedente; oS majusculis ovato- 
1 tato-lineolatis longe ca Ss. 
ci *B0, at | akerbrid 
y sphag- 
nous a ave at Griffith’s, 64 miles south-east of Philadel phic, 
tl ad a 
