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7. S. Torreyana, Walpers. Culms weak, diffuse, slightly scabrous 

 or smooth ; leaves linear, two to four lines wide, smooth ; lateral fascicles 

 on more or less elongated filiform peduncles, loosely flowered ; scales and 

 bracts smooth ; achenium globose, somewhat pointed, irregularly rugose 

 with ridges arranged in a somewhat spiral manner, or by the anastomosing 

 of these with shorter longitudinal ridges, somewhat or even distinctly reticu- 

 lated, its ridges more or less hairy, or sometimes smooth ; perigynium 

 three-lobed, the lobes acutish and appressed. Ann., iii, 696; Bceckeler, 

 Linna?a, xxxviii, 468. 



8. reticularis. Muhl., Gram., 266 ; Pursh, Flor. Amer. Sept., i, 45 ; Ell., 

 Sketch, ii, 560 ; Kunth, Enum., ii, 348; Dietrich, Syn. Plant,, v, 252. 



5. laxa, Torrey, Ann. Lye, iii, 376 ; Flor. N. Y., ii, 368 : Gray, Manual, 

 570 ; Chapman, 531 ; Wood, Class-book, 747 ; Bot. and Flor., 368. (Not of 

 R. Brown). 



8. Muhlenbergii, Steud., Syn., 173. 



8. hemitaphra, Steud., Syn., 169. 



S. debilis, Wright, Plantae Cubenses, No. 3416 pp. , a form with smooth 

 achenia. 



S. bradeata, Cav. ; var. angusta, Griseb., Flor. Br. W. I., 579. 



Habitat, Pine-Barrens of New Jersey to Florida, and through 

 the CTiilf States to Mexico. Also in Cuba (Plantae Cubenses 

 Wrightiana?, Nos. 3802, 3416. 720). 



*** Achenium papillose or warty. 



8. S. ciliata. Michx. Culms one to two feet high, slender, smooth, 

 or more usually scabrous or hairy above ; leaves narrowly linear, smooth or 

 pubescent ; sheaths hairy ; inflorescence generally a single terminal cluster; 

 sterile spikes large ; bracts conspicuously ciliate ; achenia globose or glo- 

 bose-ovoid, pointed, roughened with scattered unequal warty projections 

 or ridges, those at the base larger and deflexed ; perigynium a narrow 

 obtusely triangular border, supporting three hemispherical entire tubercles. 



Flor. N. A., ii, 167 ; Willd., Sp. PL, iv, 318 ; Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept., 

 i, 46; Ell., Sketch, ii, 559 ; Torrey, Ann. Lye, iii, 378 ; Dietrich, Syn. 

 Plant., v, 252; Kunth, Enum., ii, 350; Eaton and Wright, 419; Steud., 

 Syn., 173 , Wood, Class-book, 746 ; Bot, and Flor., 367; Chapman, 531 ; 

 Darby, 564 ; Bceckeler, Linnaea. xxxviii, 463. 



Habitat, South Carolina to Florida. 



8. ciliata is in its fruit-characters very similar to 8. paucijiora, 

 especially resembling the var. Elliott ii of the latter species. It 



