MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 
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10. SpARGANlOlDES. 
y i 
C. spiculis multiflo- 
ris, suboctonis, ovatis, 
subapproximatis; fruc- 
tibus ovatis, compres- 
sis, marginatis, bifidis, 
margine ciliato-serra- 
tis, horizontalibus. 
Spikes many flow- 
ered, generally eight, 
ovate, approximate; 
fruit ovate, compress- 
ed, winged, two-cleft, 
ciliate serrate along the 
margin, horizontal. 
Sp. pi. 4. p. 237- Pursh, 1. p. 36. Nutt. 2. p. 204. 
Stem twelve to eighteen inches high, nearly terete. Leaves numerous, 
longer than the stem, striate, scabrous along the margins, two to three lines 
wide. Flowers in numerous sessile spikes, (six to eight,) the upper ones 
approximating. Bracteal leaf setaceous, rather longer than the spikes. 
Scales ovate, mucronate, scarcely as long as the corolla. Corolla ovate, 
slightly acuminate, compressed, horizontally expanding, finely serrate, 
slightly two-cleft. Seed orbicular, compressed. 
Grows in damp soils, in the upper districts of Carolina and Georgia. 
Flowers — 
I 11. Rosea. Schkuhr. 
C. spiculis subqua- 
ternis, remotis; fructi- 
bus ovatis, acuminatis, 
bidentatis, margine 
ciliato serratis, hori- 
zontalibus, squamis 
ovatis, obtusis; bractea 
foliacea ad basin spi- 
culae inferioris. 
Sp. pi. 4. p. 237. Pursh, 1. p. 36. 
Spikes generally 4, 
remote; fruit ovate, 
acuminate, 2-toothed, 
ciliate serrate along 
the margin, horizontal; 
scales ovate, obtuse; 
bractea leaflike at the 
base of the lower 
spike. 
Muhl. Gram. p. 223. Nutt. 2. p. 
204. 
Stem about twelve inches high, slender, slightly angled. Leaves linear, 
longer than the stem, a little scabrous along the margin. Spikes four to six, 
small, sessile, the lower somewhat distant. The lowest bracteal leaf seta- 
