MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 
533 
Stem eight to twelve inches high, slender, slightly triquetrous, but at base 
when surrounded by the sheaths of the leaves appearing cylindrical, slightly 
scabrous towards the summit along the margins. Leaves very narrow, 
scarcely a line wide, nearly as long as the stem, sheathing its base, the low- 
est very short. Spikes generally four to six, squarrose, sessile, bracteas 
subulate, small, the lowest sometimes longer than the spike. Male Jlorets 
numerous, forming a long spike at the base of the terminal spike, solitary or 
wanting at the base of the lower spikes; calyx a scale, membranaceous, 
very acute, with the midrib green. Scale of the female floret similar to that 
of the male. Corolla ovate, acuminate, serrate along the margin, two-cleft 
at the summit, with the teeth erect, expanding horizontally. Stigmas two. 
Grows iu swamps. 
Flowers April. 
14. LiAGOPODIOIDES. 
C. spiculis duodenis, 
alternis, ellipticis, ob- 
tusis, approximates; 
fructibus ovato-lanceo- 
latis, marginatis, bicus- 
pidatis; bractea folia- 
cea, longissima, ad ba- 
sin spicae ultima*. 
Sp. pi. 4. p. 230. Pursh, 1. p. 37 • 
204. 
opikes numerous, 
alternate, elliptic, ob- 
tuse, approximate; 
fruit ovate lanceolate, 
winged, two-pointed; 
bractea lea Hike, very 
long, at the base of the 
lower spike. 
Muhl. Gram. p. 226. Nutt. 2. p. 
Stem erect, one to two feet high, obtusely triquetrous, scabrous near the 
summit. Leaves strap-shaped, longer than the stem, sheathing its base. 
Spikes very numerous, ten to twenty, ovate, approximate, forming one 
large, oblong head. Florets in each spike very numerous, imbricate, co- 
rolla ovate lanceolate, distinctly two-pointed, nerved, much longer than the 
ovate scale. Lower bracteal leaf setaceous, as long as the head. 
Grows in swamps and wet meadows, in the mountainous districts of Caro- 
lina. Dr. Schweinitz. 
Flowers — 
15. Foenea. Muhlenberg? 
C. spiculis pluribus, 
inferioribus distinctis, 
coinpositis, superiori- 
Spikes numerous, the 
lower distinct, com- 
pound, the upper ap- 
