526 
MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 
Sp. pi. 4. p. 208. Pursh, 1. p. 34. Muhl. Gram. p. 217. Nutt. 2. p. 
204. 
Plant dioecious. Stem about twelve inches high, obtusely triquetrous, 
slightly scabrous. Leaves linear, hispid along the margin, sheathing the 
base of the stem. Sterile spikes three to five, alternate, approximate, ses- 
sile. Scales oblong, slightly mucronate, yellowish. Fertile spikes five to 
six, alternate, approximate, oblong, sessile. Scales ovate, acute, as long as 
the corolla, when old yellowish. Willd. The two beaks of the corolla 
generally straight. 
Grows in wet meadows. Pursh, Found as far south as Georgia. Dr. 
Schweinitz. 
- Flowers April — May. 
** Spicis androgy- j 
nis. 
f Spica unica, Jlori- 
bus superioribus pie - 
rumque masculis. 
2. Cephalophora. 
C. spicis in formam 
ellipticam aggregatis; 
fructibus ovatis, com- 
pressis, bifidis, margi- 
natis, superne ciliato- 
serratis. 
Sp. pi. 4. p. 220. Pursh, 1. p. 35. 
204. 
Spikes androgy- 
nous. 
f Spike one, the up- 
per Jlorets generally 
sterile. 
Spikes collected into 
an elliptic head; fruit 
ovate, compressed, 2- 
cleft, winged, ciliate, 
serrate near the sum- 
mit. 
Muhl. Gram. p. 218. Nutt. 2. p. 
Stem two to three feet high, triquetrous, scabrous along the margins. 
Leaves linear, very long. Spikes four to six, approximate, forming one 
terminal head; bracteal leaf longer than the spike; scale ovate, mucronate. 
Corolla ovate, compressed, scabrous along the margins, about as long as the 
scale. Styles two. Seed ovate. 
Grows in the mountainous districts of Carolina and Georgia. 
Flowers in May. 
3. Squarrosa. 
C. spica simplici, I Spike simple, oval, 
ovali, inferne mascula; I sterile at base; cap- 
