﻿A 
  FLORA 
  OP 
  ARKANSAS 
  TERRITORY. 
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  ramosa, 
  multiflora, 
  ramis 
  subsimplicibus 
  ; 
  floribus 
  secundis 
  nutantibus 
  ; 
  

   calicibus 
  trifloris 
  ; 
  floribus 
  glabriusculis 
  exsertis.— 
  -i/aft. 
  In 
  the 
  humid 
  

   shady 
  woods 
  of 
  Cedar 
  prairie, 
  ten 
  miles 
  from 
  Fort 
  Smith. 
  Flowering 
  in 
  

   Ma.y.—Obs. 
  Perennial. 
  Culm 
  two 
  to 
  three 
  feet 
  high 
  ; 
  stipules 
  lacerate 
  ; 
  

   panicle 
  many 
  flowered, 
  secund, 
  partly 
  branched 
  to 
  the 
  summit; 
  calix 
  

   mostly 
  3-flowered, 
  besides 
  the 
  neutral 
  rudiment, 
  which 
  is 
  pedicellate 
  ; 
  

   valves 
  ovate, 
  obtuse 
  and 
  coloured, 
  with 
  the 
  margin 
  scariose 
  ; 
  spikelets 
  

   sublanceolate, 
  the 
  flowers 
  being 
  exserted 
  beyond 
  the 
  calix 
  ; 
  flower 
  glumes 
  

   striated, 
  merely 
  smooth 
  to 
  the 
  naked 
  eye 
  ; 
  inner 
  valve 
  (seen 
  through 
  a 
  

   common 
  lens) 
  pubescent 
  along 
  the 
  margin, 
  as 
  in 
  M. 
  glabra, 
  to 
  which 
  

   this 
  species 
  is 
  proximately 
  related 
  ; 
  stamens 
  three 
  ; 
  styles 
  two, 
  pubes- 
  

   cent. 
  This 
  species 
  appears 
  to 
  be 
  somewhat 
  related 
  to 
  M. 
  aspera 
  of 
  

   Barbary. 
  

  

  1. 
  Miegia 
  gigantea 
  (M. 
  macrosperma, 
  Pursh). 
  — 
  Ramis 
  floriferis, 
  

   spiculis 
  paucifloris 
  (8 
  — 
  10), 
  purpureis, 
  glabris, 
  acuminatis; 
  caule 
  fruti- 
  

   coso 
  altissimo. 
  — 
  Hab. 
  From 
  Great 
  Sandy 
  river 
  on 
  the 
  northern 
  confines 
  

   of 
  Kentucky, 
  along 
  the 
  alluvial 
  borders 
  of 
  the 
  Ohio 
  to 
  its 
  confluence 
  ; 
  on 
  

   the 
  banks 
  of 
  the 
  Mississippi, 
  from 
  Kaskaskia 
  to 
  the 
  Gulf 
  of 
  Mexico 
  ; 
  on 
  

   the 
  borders 
  of 
  the 
  Arkansas, 
  a 
  few 
  miles 
  above 
  the 
  Verdigris 
  ; 
  on 
  Red 
  

   river 
  to 
  the 
  L'eau 
  Bleu 
  ; 
  in 
  the 
  Atlantic 
  states 
  to 
  the 
  confines 
  of 
  Vir- 
  

   ginia. 
  When, 
  after 
  a 
  lapse 
  of 
  years, 
  arrived 
  at 
  the 
  period 
  of 
  flowering, 
  

   it 
  often 
  sends 
  up 
  in 
  a 
  period 
  of 
  two 
  months 
  a 
  stem 
  of 
  thirty-five 
  or 
  

   forty 
  feet 
  in 
  height, 
  which 
  in 
  the 
  following 
  year 
  flowers 
  and 
  dies. 
  

   This 
  species 
  rarely 
  survives 
  after 
  being 
  cut 
  down, 
  while 
  the 
  smaller 
  or 
  

   dwarf 
  cane 
  springs 
  up 
  again 
  from 
  the 
  remaining 
  root. 
  

  

  2. 
  M. 
  *pumila. 
  Panicula 
  radicali 
  ; 
  spiculis 
  pubescentibus, 
  multi- 
  

   floris 
  (12 
  — 
  20), 
  valvulis 
  longe 
  acuminatis. 
  — 
  Hab. 
  At 
  the 
  confluence 
  

   of 
  Kiamesha 
  and 
  Red 
  rivers, 
  in 
  alluvial 
  lands.— 
  Obs. 
  Culm 
  three 
  or 
  

   four 
  feet 
  high, 
  shrubby 
  and 
  slender; 
  leaves 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  preceding, 
  but 
  

   somewhat 
  broader 
  ; 
  flowering 
  panicles 
  radical, 
  two 
  to 
  three 
  feet 
  high, 
  

   slender, 
  and 
  often 
  refracted 
  towards 
  the 
  summit 
  ; 
  spikelets 
  slenderly 
  

   pedunculate, 
  and 
  attenuated 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  two 
  to 
  three 
  inches 
  long 
  and 
  

   pubescent, 
  containing 
  from 
  ten 
  to 
  twenty 
  conspicuously 
  acuminated 
  or 
  

   cuspidate 
  flowers 
  ; 
  calix 
  small, 
  with 
  very 
  unequal 
  valves 
  ; 
  stamina 
  three; 
  

   stigmas 
  three 
  ; 
  sheaths 
  of 
  the 
  leaves 
  pubescent 
  along 
  the 
  margin 
  ; 
  the 
  

   orifice 
  surrounded 
  by 
  setose 
  tufts. 
  I 
  am 
  not 
  certain 
  that 
  this 
  plant 
  is 
  

  

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