MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 
545 
Stem one to two feet high, triquetrous, glabrous. Leaves longer than the 
stem, strap-shaped, slightly channelled, scarcely scabrous along the margins, 
sheathing at base. Male spike terminal, scales ovate, acute. Female spikes 
three, sometimes with a few male florets at the summit of each, distant, half 
or more of the long peduncle inclosed. Corolla ovate, acute, nerved, two- 
cleft at the mouth, twice as long as the ovate, very acute scale, somewhat 
inflated when mature. Stigmas three. Seed triquetrous. 
Grows in bogs and swampsj very common. 
Flowers April — May. 
33. Folliculata. 
C. spicis foemineis 
sub quaternis, erectis, 
exerte pedunculatis, 
paucifloris; fructibus 
ovatis, ventricosis, ner 
vosis, rostratis, squa- 
ma ovata longioribus. 
E. 
Sp. pi. 4. p. 281. Mich. 2. p. 171. Pursh, 1. p. 42. Nutt. 2. p. 205. 
Stem about two feet high, erect, triquetrous, with the margins near the 
summit, scabrous. Leaves longer than the stem, strap-shaped, scabrous, 
slightly channelled, with short sheaths at base. Male spike solitary, termi- 
nal, scales lanceolate, acute. Female spikes two to four, rarely soli- 
tary, erect on short exserted peduncles, the lower one, when there are four, 
remote. Florets six to twenty, expanding horizontally. Corolla ovate, 
rostrate, slightly two-cleft at the mouth, nerved, conspicuously inflated, lon- 
ger than the narrow, ovate, slightly acuminate scale. Stigmas three. Seed 
triquetrous. 
A few male florets generally occur at the summit of each fertile spike. 
Grows in swamps. 
Flowers April— May. 
*** Spicis foemine - j Fertile spikes 
is pedunculatis. j on peduncles. 
L 34. Plantaginea. 
C. spicis peduncula- j Spikes pedunculate, 
tis, foemineis quaternis j fertile four, distant; 
vol. n. z 3 
Fertile spikes gene- 
rally 4, erect, pedun- 
culate, few flowered; 
fruit ovate, ventricose, 
nerved, beaked, longer 
than the ovate scale. 
