MONOECIA TRIANDRIA, 
547 
Root perennial, stoloniferous. Stem about two feet high, triquetrous, 
slender, purple at base. Leaves linear, nerved, scabrous along the margin, 
shorter than the stem. Sterile spike about an inch long, much shorter than 
its three-nerved bracteal leaf; scales oblong, obtuse, brown with a white mar- 
gin. Fertile spikes three, (nine to sixteen flowered,) the upper bearing on 
the summit a few sterile flowers, sessile as well as the middle spike, the 
lower cernuous on a long peduncle. Corolla inflated, ovate, obtusely tri- 
quetrous, distinctly nerved, terminating in a long beak, two-cleft at the 
summit, somewhat coriaceous, lucid, and transversely striate, resembling 
under a lens the surface of fine morocco leather. Seed triquetrous. 
This species appears to me to have no resemblance to the European C. 
Fulva, at least as that plant is figured in Trans. Lin. Soc. 2. t. 20. f. 6. 1 
have, therefore, changed its name. Its close and strong affinity is to C. Fob 
liculata, from which, however, it is by its calyx and corolla sufficiently dis- 
tinct. It is also a coarser grass. 
Grows in wet pine barrens. Chatham county, Georgia. 
Flowers in April. 
36 . Anceps. 
C. spicis foemineis 
tribus, remotis, inferi- 
oribus pedunculatis; 
fructibus ovatis, nervo- 
sis, ore membranaceis, 
squama oblonga mu- 
cron at a? longioribus. 
Fertile spikes three, 
distant, the lower pe- 
dunculate; fruit ovate, 
nerved, membranace- 
ous at the mouth, long- 
er than the oblong, 
mucronate? scale. 
Sp. pi. 4. p. 278. Pursh, 1. p. 42. Nutt. 2. p. 205. 
Stem triquetrous, compressed, almost ancipitous. Bracteal leaves sheath- 
ing. The upper fertile spike sessile, the rest on peduncles. Fertile florets 
alternate, rather remote. Willd. 
I quote the observations of Willdegow on this species, because to me it 
has been obscure. The plants returned to me by Dr, Muhlenberg as C. 
Anceps, are too nearly allied to C. Flexuosa. Dr. Muhlenberg has himself 
referred C. Anceps to C. Plantaginea. 
Grows in wet fields on the sides of ditches. Pursh. 
Flowers April— -May. 
37 . CoNOlDEA. 
C. spicis foemineis 
binis, remotis, supre- 
ma subsessili, infima 
Fertile spikes two, 
distant, the upper near- 
ly sessile, the lower on 
