230 Revision of the Genus Scleria. 



axils, the upper one somewhat triglomerate ; bracts naked or slightly ciliate, 

 cuspidate ; achenium varying from depressed to ovate-globose, generally 

 obtuse but pointed, obscurely triangular, shining ; perigynium narrow, very 

 obtusely triangular, covered with a white rough crust. 



Fl. N. A., ii, 168; Muhl., Gram., 269 ; Ell., Sketch, ii, 558; Pursh, Flor. 

 Amer Sept., i, 46 (?); Eaton and Wright, 418; Beck, 430; Darlington, Flor. 

 Cestr., 2d Ed., 26; 3d Ed., 343; Torrey, Compend., 349; Ann. Lye, iii, 380; 

 Flor. N. Y., ii, 368; Steud., Syn., 173; Eaton, 454: Dewey, Plants Mass., 

 260; Chapman, 531; Darby, 564; Gray, Manual, 570; Wood, Class-book, 

 746; Bot. and Flor., 367; Boeckeler, Linnaea, xxxviii, 464. 



8 nitida, Willd., Herb. , Jide Kunth. Enum, ii, 350; Darby, 564; Steud., 

 Syn., 174; Dietrich, Syn. Plant, v, 252. 



S.flaccida, Steud,, Syn., 174. 



Cladium tnglomeratum, Nees, Linnsea, ix, 301 ; Kunth, Enum, ii, 304. 



Trachylomia triglomerata, Nees, Mart., Flor. Bras., ii, Pt. i, 174. 



Pursh describes the nut as rugose, but he must have con- 

 founded this with some other species. 



Habitat, Massachusetts and Vermont to Wisconsin, and south- 

 ward to Florida and Texas. 



Var. gracilis, n. var. Culms slender, 15 inches to two feet long ; fasci- 

 cles few-flowered, small, the lower of but two or three flowers on very long, 

 filiform peduncles ; achenium not more than one-half the size of that of the 

 type, ovate, acutish. 



Habitat, Leeds Point, N. J., Dr. Gray's Herbarium ; — near 

 Haddonfield, N. J., A. H. Smith -.—Quaker Bridge, N. J., 

 W. H. Leggett. 



4. S. oligantlia, Ell. Culms about two feet high, slender, triangular, 

 the angles somewhat winged ; leaves linear, about two lines wide, smooth ex- 

 cept their scabrous apices ; lateral fascicles one or two, mostly on long ex- 

 serted peduncles; bracts somewhat ciliate, scales ovate, cuspidate; achenium 

 ovate, obtuse but generally pointed ; perigynium a narrow obtusely trian- 

 gular border, supporting eight or nine small tubercles. Sketch, ii, 557 ; 

 Michx., Fl. N. A., ii, 167 (?) ; Eaton and Wright, 419; Torrey, Ann. 

 Lye, iii, 377; Steud., Syn., 173; Chapman, 531; BcEckeler, Linnasa, xxxviii, 

 462. 



8. leptoculmi Wood, Class-book, 746 ; Bot. and Flor., 367. 



Scleria, No. 4, Muhl., Gram., 268. 



