M0N0EC1A TRIANDRIA. 529 
Sp. pi. 4. p. 235. Pursh, 1. p. 35. Muhl. Gram. p. 219. Nutt. 2. p. 
204. 
Stem very slender, nearly twelve inches high, slightly angled, leafy near 
the base. Leaves linear, almost filiform, scabrous along the margin. Spikes 
five to six, few-flowered, sterile at the summit. Scales ovate, acute, keeled, 
shorter than the corolla. Fruit ovate, acuminate, glabrous, when mature 
diverging. 
Grows in dry soils. In the upper districts of Carolina. 
Flowers in May. 
7. Stipata? 
C. spiculis plurimis 
(12 — 20), compositis, 
aggregatis; fructibus 
demum patentibus,ova- 
tis, acuminatis, con- 
vexo planis, nervosis, 
ciliato-serratis; culmo 
triquetro, marginibus 
sub scabris. E. 
Spikes numerous (12 
— 20), compound, ag- 
gregate; fruit finally 
expanding, ovate, acu- 
minate, plano-convex, 
nerved, ciliate, serrate; 
stem triquetrous, with 
the angles somewhat 
scabrous. 
Sp. pi. 4. p. 233. Pursh, 1. p. 35. Nutt. 2. p. 204. 
Stem one to two feet high, thick, succulent, very tender, very glabrous, 
excepting the margins, which, particularly towards the summit, are slightly 
scabrous. Leaves as long as the stem, (longer when young,) strap-shaped, 
channelled, nerved, slightly serrulate, sheathing the base of the stem. Flow- 
ers in numerous, compound spikelets, so closely aggregated as to form a 
continued and somewhat compact spike, appressed when young, expanding 
when mature. Male florets terminating each spikelet, scale ovate, mem- 
branaceous, mucronate. Scale of the female floret similar. Corolla ovate, 
tapering to the two-cleft summit, serrulate, nerved. Stigmas two. Seed 
obtusely triquetrous. 
Grows in swamps— very common. 
Flowers April. 
8. Muhlenbergu. 
C. spiculis plurimis, 
ovatis, alternis, ap- 
proximate; fructibus 
subrotundo - ovatis, 
Spikes numerous, 
ovate, alternate, ap- 
proximate; fruit ovate, 
nearly round, winged, 
x 3 
vol. n. 
