MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 
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proximate, ovate; fruit 
ovate, acuminate, two- 
toothed, longer than 
the scale; bracteal leaf 
at the base of the low- 
est spike setaceous, 
long. 
Muhl. Gram. p. 227- 
Stem one to two feet high, obtusely triquetrous, scabrous near the summit. 
Leaves strap-shaped, as long as the stem, scabrous along the margins, 
sheathing the base of the stem for some distance from the ground. Spikes 
numerous, (eight to ten,) the lower separate and compound, the upper 
forming a continued mass of flowers. Florets numerous, imbricate. Co- 
rolla ovate, acuminate, very finely serrulate, very slightly two-cleft at the 
summit, larger than the ovate lanceolate scale. The lower bracteal leaf 
subulate, two to three inches long, the upper ones very small. 
For specimens of this plant, and for my knowledge of it as a southern 
species, I am indebted to Dr. Schweinitz. 
Grows in the upper districts of North and South-Carolina. 
Flowers — 
bus sub approximates, 
ovatis; fructibus ova- 
tis, acuminatis, biden- 
tatis, squama paulo 
longioribus; bractea 
setacea longa ad basin 
spicae ultimae. E. 
16. Ovalis. 
C. spiculis subseuis, 
subrotundo - ellipticis, 
alternis, sub approxi- 
mates, inferne masculis; 
fructibus ovatis, mar- 
ginatis, bidentatis, ci- 
liato-serratis. 
Spikes generally 6, 
elliptic, nearly round, 
alternate, approximate, 
florets at base sterile; 
fruit ovate, margined, 
two-toothed. ciliate 
serrate. 
Sp. pi. 4. p. 229- Pursh, 1. p. 3 7- Nutt. 2. p. 204. 
Stem about twelve inches high, triquetrous, with the angles acute, sca- 
brous. Leaves narrow, about as long as the stem. Spikes approximate, 
oval, Scales ovate lanceolate, acute, as long as the corolla. Corolla ob- 
long, acuminate, with the mouth entire. Good. Trans. Lin. Soc. 2. p. 148. 
With this species I have no acquaintance. It is mentioned by Dr. 
Schweinitz, in his letters, as one of our southern species. 
Flowers-— 
