100 
=. — 
osuroides (L.) Willd. FRESHWATER CORD-GRASS.— 
a, iecler obs showing the exserted stamens; 6,a spikelet with the stigmas ex- 
op c, the same with a. empty glumes removed. Figs. 172 to 177 in Bul, 7 
illustrate ater wt epecies of Spartina. 
1789. Spikelets 1-flowered, strongly 
SPARTINA Schreb. Pl. 43. 
fattened laterally, sessile, and closely imbricated in 2 rows along one side of a 
d along a com- 
artic ated below the empty & oargen = not produced be- 
on axis; rachilla 
rem the floret. Glumes 3, 
as long as or often rae prey ge or flowering glum: 
unequal, the 2d lo! 
Stamens 3. Styles elongated, filiform. Grain narrow, free within th he chan 
and palea. briana alae , creeping rootstoc. 
ae 
es 7, . enteaaobhenl North and th America and along the coasts of 
e regions of the Great 
Speci 
Burope and Africa; chiefly Socata Gc ae tk 
