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MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 
distantibus; fructibus 
ellipticis, triquetris, pe- 
dicellatis, glabris, squa- 
ma ovata cuspidata 
(trimum), brevioribus; 
bracteis vaginatis apice 
subfoliaceis; foliis ra- 
dicalibus, lanceolatis, 
nervosis. 
fruit elliptic, trique- 
trous, pedicellate, gla- 
brous, at first shorter 
than the ovate, cuspi- 
date scale; bracteas 
sheathing at the sum- 
mit, leaflike; leaves ra- 
dical, lanceolate, nerv- 
ed. 
Sp. pi. 4. p. 257. Mich. 2. p. 173. Pursh, 1. p. 42. Nutt. 2. p. 205. 
Stem twelve to eighteen inches high, glabrous. Leaves lanceolate linear, 
assuming the lanceolate form more than usual among grasses, nerved, gla- 
brous, thin, very slightly serrulate along the margins. Sterile spike one, 
terminal, fertile generally about four, distant, erect, linear, the fruit not 
crowded, the lower on long peduncles, the peduncles of the upper scarcely 
longer than the sheaths. Bracteal leaves resembling those of the root, all 
sheathing for at least half an inch the base of the peduncle. Scales of the 
sterile floret lanceolate, acute, not mucronate; of the fertile ovate mucro- 
nate. Corolla oblong, somewhat oblique, acute, slightly notched at the 
summit, very distinctly nerved, and when mature, in my specimens always 
longer than the scale. 
Grows in rich shaded soils. 
Flowers April. 
35. Castanea. E. 
C. spica mascula so- 
litaria; foemineis tri- 
bus, subrotundis, infi- 
ma longissime pedun- 
culata, cernua, superi- 
oribus sessilibus; co- 
rolla triquetro ovata, 
glabra, puncticulosa, 
squama ovata, obtusa 
multo longiore. 
C. Fulva? Muhl. Gram. p. 246. 
Sterile spike solita- 
ry; fertile spikes three, 
nearly round, the low- 
est on a long peduncle, 
nodding, the upper ses- 
sile; corolla trique- 
trous ovate, glabrous, 
slightly dotted, much 
longer than the ovate, 
obtuse scale. 
