MONOECIA TRIANDR1A. 
543 
ovatam acutam sub*- j scale, 
quantibus. 
Sp. pi. 4. p. 263. Pursh, 1. p. 41. Nutt. 2. p. 205. 
Stem about two feet high, acutely triquetrous, scabrous along the margins. 
heaves narrow, strap-shaped, about as long as the stem. Sterile spike ter- 
minal, narrow, lanceolate, almost cylindrical, scales ovate, dusky, with a 
membranaceous margin. Fertile spikes two, cylindrical, nearly sessile, just 
below the base of the sterile. Corolla ovate, attenuate at the summit, slightly 
two-cleft, pubescent, almost tomentose. Scales ovate, the lower sometimes 
mucronate, about as long as the corolla. Bracteas scarcely longer than the 
spikes. 
Grows in wet meadows. Pursh. 
Flowers May — June. 
30 . Tentaculata. 
C. spicis foemineis 
tribus, ovatis, sessili- 
bus,horizontalibus, sub 
approximatis, confer- 
tis; bracteis longissime 
foliaceis; corollis ova- 
tis, ventricosis, nervo- 
sis, longissime rostra- 
tis, ore bidentatis, 
squama parvula ovata 
mucronata Iongioribus. 
Fertile spikes three, 
ovate, nearly sessile, 
horizontal, approxi- 
mate, crowded; brac- 
teas very long, leaflike; 
corolla ovate, ventri- 
cose, nerved, with a 
long beak, two-toothed 
at the summit, longer 
than the small, ovate, 
mucronate scale. 
Sp. pi. 4. p. 266. Pursh, 1. p. 41. Muhl. Gram. p. 239. Nutt. 2. p. 
205. 
C. Rostrata? Mich. 2. p. 173. 
Stem two feet high, triquetrous. Leaves very long, lanceolate, linear, 
nerved, scabrous along the margins, sheathing the base of the stem. Sterile 
spike long, solitary, scale linear lanceolate, mucronate. Fertile spikes 
three, approximate, the two upper sessile, the third with a short included 
peduncle. Bracteal leaves much longer than the stem; scale very much 
dilated at base, mucronate; corolla ventricose, ovate, terminating in a long- 
beak, very slightly two-cleft, nerved, but the nerves less conspicuous than 
those of the two preceding species, very compactly crowded on the spike. 
Grows in wet soils. I have not seen it in the low country. 
Flowers April and May. 
