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>. Eliiottu, Chapman, 531. 



8. hnltUa. Miclix. PI. N. A., ii, 168(Y). 



S. hirtdla, Miclix.. var. striffosa, Ell.. Sketch, ii. 560; Eaton and Wright, 

 419. 



Habitat, North Carolina to Florida, and through the Gulf 

 States to Texas and the Indian Territory. Also in Cuba (Plan- 

 ts? Wrightianae, No. 3798). 



Var. glabra. Chapman. Smooth throughout, or the leaves and bracts 

 somewhat scabrous at the summit ; processes of the perigynium three, each 

 two lobed ; achenium wrinkled or papillose. 



Flor. South. States, 532; Wood, Bot. and Flor., 368. 



Var. |3, Torrey, Ann. Lye, iii, 378. 

 Habitat, North Carolina to Florida. 



Var. elonjfala, n. var. Smooth throughout ; stems very slender, two 

 to two and a half feet loDg. diffuse ; achenium as in the last variety. 



Habitat, Georgia. Florida. 



(C.) Inflorescence interruptedly glomerate-spicate. 

 * Achenium smooth ; pistillate scales bristly. 



10. S. liirlella, Swartz. Culms 6 — 19 inches high, slender, smooth or 

 nearly so ; leaves linear and, with their sheaths, hairy ; clusters of flowers 

 4 — 8, sessile, erect or nodding ; scales of the fertile flowers oval or lanceo- 

 late, cuspidate ; those of the sterile flowers lanceolate or linear, pointless, 

 glabrous ; achenium globose, half a line broad, pointed, its base somewhat 

 attenuated, triangular, each side furnished with from 5 — 7 minute pores ; 

 perigynium none. 



Fl. Ind. Occ, i, 93 ; Sprengel, Syst, Veg.. iii, 832 ; Kunth., Enum., ii. 

 353; Steud., Syn., 175; H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Sp. PI., i, 132; Grise- 

 bach, Fl. Br. W. I., 579 ; Dietrich, Syn. Plant., v, 253 ; Bceckeler, Linnaea. 

 xxxviii, 439. 



S. humUe, Nees, Linnaea, ix, 303. 



8. distans, Poiret, Encycl., vii, 4 ; Kunth., Enum., ii, 353 ; Steud., Syn,, 

 176 ; Dietrich, Syn. Plant., v, 253. 



S. nutans, Kunth, Enum., ii, 351; Steud., Syn., 175; Dietrich, Syn. 

 Plant., v, 252. 



8. mollis, Kunth, Enum.. ii, 352: Steud., Syn.. 175; Dietrich. Syn. 

 Plant., v, 252. 



