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short, folioles ovate, erect, nerved. Peduncles 

 unequal, proliferous. Spikelets small, long-linear, 

 Diany-flowered* Culix glumes lanceolate, brown. 

 Fist ilium trifid. Root fibrous. JIuhl. Descrip, 

 Uberior Gram. p. 18. 

 C\ perus nodosus. Willd. ? 

 Cvperus juncoides, Lam. Illustr. 

 Cvperus complanatus, Willd. sp. pi. 1. p. 270. 

 Icon. Rott. gram. t. 17. f. 3. (Pursh.) 

 In similar places with the preceding, near this city, in Jer- 

 sey. Mr. Nuttall ; Dr. Stuve. 



6. C. capitulum, somewhat globose, glomerated ; uncinate 

 spikelets linear about 8- flowered. Valves lanceo- ""*' 

 late, acuminated backward, involucrum about 

 two-leaved, very long. Pursh. 



A \<j.;. -mall plant flowering from an inch to two inches in 

 height. On the gravelly hanks of the Delaware, Jersey side- 

 Mr. Nuttall. Biennial. June. 



29. Dvlichiim, Richard, Pers. ench. 1. p. 65. (Cypc- 



roide*. J 



Spikes somewhat racemose, axillary. Spike- 

 lets linear-lanceolate, rather compressed. 

 Cain -ne scales subulate, almost distichally 

 sheathing. Style very long, bifid. Invo- 

 lucellate sctai long and scabrous. Seed acu- 

 minated by the base of the style. jXutt. 



1. D. stem columnar, with leaves pointing in three •patittccH}. 

 directions, spikelets expanding, subulate, in axil- 

 lary racemes. Elliot. 



Cvperus spathaccus, sp. pi. 1. p. 289. 



Scirpus spathaccus, Mich. 1. p. 32. 



Pleuranthus floribundus, Richard, (Pursh.) 



Schoenus angustifolius, Vahl. enum. 2. p. 225. 

 (Pursh.) 

 Icon. Pluk. aim. t. 301. f. 1. 



Sheathed Dalkhium. 



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