278 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 





Foeniculum vulgar e. Same as Foeniculum foeniculum. 

 Fofgu (Guam). 



See Pharbitis hederacea, Ipomoea mariannensis, and /. congesta. 

 Fomes. See under Fungi. 

 Forage plants. See page 150. 

 Four-o'clock. See Mirabilis jalapa. 

 Foxtail, golden. See Chaelochloa glauca aurea. 

 Frijoles caballeros (Porto Rico). See Dolichos lablab. 

 Frijolillo (Panama.) See Cassia occidentalis. 

 Frullania. See Hepaticse. 

 Fuefue-tai (Samoa). See Ipomoea pes-caprae. 



Fuirena umbellata. Sedge. 



Family Cyperaceae. 



A sedge, growing in damp places, belonging to the tribe Scirpeae, with dark-brown, 

 dense clusters of sessile spikelets and leafy triangular stems, which are glabrous 

 except at the tomentose inflorescence. Plant perennial; rootstock hard, stoloniferous 

 or shortly creeping with filiform root fibers; stolons hardening into rhizomes, clothed 

 with ovate-lanceolate striate scales: stem 30 to 120 cm. tall, stout or slender, ribbed; 

 leaves variable, 15 to 30 cm. long, up to 14 mm. broad, linear-lanceolate, obtusely 

 acuminate, 3 to 5-veined, glabrous or ciliate toward the base, margins smooth or 

 nearly so, sheaths long, closed, mouth with a ciliolate brown ligule; spikelets 5 to 8 

 mm. long, ovoid or oblong, sessile, crowded in simple or compound, axillary, 

 peduncled and terminal, sometimes subpanicled clusters 12 to 25 mm. in diameter, 

 dark brown, the peduncle tomentose or villous, rachilla slender; bracts under the 

 clusters short, cuspidate; glumes closely imbricated, at length deciduous, 3 mm. 

 long, membranous, broadly obovoid, refuse or 2-lobed, glabrous or puberulous and 

 ciliate, keel stout, of 3 veins meeting in a stout scabrid cusp half as long as the 

 glume; scales obovate-quadrate, upper margin thickened, cuspidate; stamens 3, 

 anthers rather stout, apiculate; nut 1.5 to 2 mm. long, stipitate, trapezoidal, trigonous, 

 long-beaked, the angles acute, obscurely 3-ribbed dorsally, smooth, pale; style as 

 long as the nut. 



A plant of wide distribution in moist tropical regious. Growing in Guam in 

 swampy places and on the borders of rice fields. Collected here by Haenke and 

 Lesson. 



References: 

 Fuirena umbellata Rottb. Desc. et Ic. PI. 70. t. 19. f. 3. 1773. 



Fungi. 



Very little is known of the Fungi of Guam. Among the few species collected by 

 Gaudichaud on the island are Auricularia auricula-judae (L. ) Schrot, belonging 

 to the Auriculariaceae; Fomes scabrosus (Pers. ) Fr., Polyporus kamphoeveneri Fv. 

 (P. mariannus Pers.), Polystictus sanguineus (L.) Mey., P. xarithopus Fr. (P. saccatus 

 Pers. ), belonging to the Polyporaceae; and Schizophyllum alneum (L. ) Schrot., belong- 

 ing to the Agaricaceae. From the results of observations on other islands it is certain 

 that a collector of Fungi would have a fine field in the Marianne Islands. Fungi 

 abound everywhere, on the ground, on decaying wood, on tree trunks, on the leaves 

 of water plants, grasses, and forest trees, and upon rotting fruit. Some of them 

 are like great solid masses of gingerbread, others are as delicate as coral, and others 

 appear as microscopic rusts, molds, or mildew. One of the most common is 

 brightly luminous in the dark. 

 Futu (Samoa, Tonga). See Barringtonia speciosa. 



