234 Revision of the Genus Scleria. 



may generally be distinguished by its solely terminal inflorescence 

 and by the three distinct and entire tubercles above the perigyn- 

 ium. In all the forms of S. pauciflora there are either six, or 

 three two-lobed, tubercles. 



9. S. pauciflora, Muhl. Culm slender, erect, 9 — 24 inches high, 

 smoothish or hairy ; leaves narrowly linear, smoothish ; sheaths more or 

 less pubescent ; fascicles few-flowered, the lateral sessile or pedunculate or 

 sometimes absent ; bracts more or less ciliate, glumes acute or acuminate, 

 naked ; achenium globose-ovate, the papillae toward the base elongated and 

 depressed ; perigynium a narrow obtusely-triangular border, supporting six 

 small globose tubercles somewhat approximated in pairs. 



In Willd., Sp. PI., iv, 318 ; Gram., 267 ; Pursh, Flor. Amer. Sept., i, 46 

 Ell., Sketch, ii, 559; Darlingt., Flor. Cestr., 2nd Ed., 26; 3d Ed., 344 

 Spreng., Syst. Veg., iii, 832 ; Eaton and Wright, 419 ; Torrey, Ann. Lye. 

 iii, 377 ; Compend., 349 ; Flor. N. Y., ii, 369 ; Kunth., Enuin., ii, 349 

 Dietrich, Syn. Plant,, v, 252 ; Beck, 430 ; Eaton, 454 ; Gray, Manual, 571 

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

 367 ; Bceckeler, Linnsea, xxxviii, 461. 



8. Oakesiana, Robbins in Gray Herbarium. 



Habitat, New Hampshire to Ohio, and southward to Florida 

 and Texas. Also in Cuba (Plantae Cubenses Wrightianae, No. 

 3799). 



Var. Caroliniana, Wood. Stems very slender, pubescent, as also the 

 sheaths and leaves ; achenium wrinkled or papillose. 

 Bot. and Flor., 368. 



S. Caroliniana, Willd., Sp. PL, iv, 318; Torrey, Ann. Lye, iii, 379; 

 Steud., Syn., 179; Kunth., Enum., ii, 359 ; Darby, 564 ; Dietrich, Syn. 

 Plant. , v, 254. 



Spermodon, sp., Endlicher, Gen. PI., 114. 



8. hirtella, Michx., Fl. N. A., ii, 168 (?) ; Eaton and Wright, 419 ; Ell., 

 Sketch, ii, 560. 



8. pauciflora, var. hirtella, Chapm. in Herb. 



Habitat, South Carolina and Florida. 



Var. Elliotlii, Wood. Culms stout, erect, densely rough-pubescent on 

 the angles, leaves broader than in the type, hairy ; sheaths pubescent ; 

 lobes of the perigynium three, each two-lobed. 



Bot. and Flor., 368. 



