SEDGE FAMILY. 859 
mostly 3. Ovary 1-celled, it an akene, which is _ 
ig nag when the style is 24 ron po parece Sg when it is 3- ae Embryo minute at 
the pe ee ao 
umen. 
i “Or der som: genera, remarkable for their worthlessness ; and also for their _ 
presence, or prevalence at least, being an indication of swampy, n egle ected, or bie 
land. The herbage f this Order , unlike that of a large number of the Gramine: ex, 
true S reac contains Seat little saccharine matter ; and therefore is neither nutritious cor 
palatabl stock. 
£ah £ 3, 
pica e is gi to attract the no- 
tice of the farmer. They are favorite me Fie with the Botanist, ene = Fe who have a 
curiosity to know more of them will find them me ribed in the Flor. 
Flowers S perfect, 2-ranked : spikes few -many- ed. 
Perianth none. 1. CyYPERUS. 
owers perfect, pairsere ages! in several ran 
ca ed = 3~6 bristles. Achen m pointed sith “the continuous base 
of the style. 2. ScrPvs. 
Solan i Coolio in the same or separate spikes sigan lg diceci- 
ous). Achenium enclosed in a sac, lenticular or triangular. 3. 
1. CYPH’RUS, L. ETRE 
tu 
{An ancient Greek name,—of t 
ence many- — or rarely few-flowered. “Scales ner a iy im- 
eae —the low —_ empty and sometimes smaller. Perianth none 
of any kind. Stamens or 3. Styles 3 (rarely 2) sniial below “ed one, 
_ deciduous ra is gre or com erennial 
_, Culms sim aoe often triquetrous, leafy and Geealtind at base. Leaves 
pikelet ets in loose ses, involucrate fascicles, or umbels ; pe- 
: arta a sheathed at b 
1, &. strigo’ A eran ressed, linear awl-shaped, crowded 
at the su tr f the sear: of a es open umbel ; sheaths rs the sea 
cles bristled ahve trifid ; stamens 3; achenium linear-oblong. 
RIGOSE CypErus. Eenieoibd sil \ 
the 
gin. Umbed 3-6 or 9-rayed, get ae spreading ; rays une od Vor 2-4 oe Sin ches ee, 
j. €. the centra: 
1 hed ai suppre a. ; ; 
Spikes yellowish, about three-fourths of an inch long,—the scales somewhat loosely imbri- 
cated, striate, with a green keel and yeniowish ai ses inde long, 2united in one, distinct 
a mit. Akene triquetrous ae 
“alvet ¢neadows and low w grounds rhroughout the U ted States, Ff. August. Fr. Sep- 
“Obs, This species is inserted—not as being a particularly troublesome 
weed, but—as one of the most cchemienonsiet the genus, in = 
meadows of the middle and northern States. two which 
belong rather to the Southern States,—and are there regarded as 
Scourges by the Planters. . 
2. C. phymato’d Mudt - Root creeping, tubariieroas at the ex- 
tremisiog 5 umbel es ia simple, 4- rayed in volucre about 3-leaved, 
much longer than the rays ; sane inear,. fl Pose sub-compressed, ap- 
proximated, somewhat , each 12 - 20-flowered. 
“Nut Grass,” of Florida 
