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MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 
lodge pedunculata; 
fructibus oblongo coni- 
cis, obtusis, squamam 
aristatam eequantibus. 
a long peduncle; fruit 
oblong conic, obtuse, 
as long as the awned 
scale. 
Sp. pi. 4. p. 280. Pursh, 1. p. 43. Muhl. Gram. p. 248. Nutt. 2. p. 
I have been accustomed, perhaps incorrectly, to refer the following plant 
to this ‘species. 
Stem about twelve inches high, triquetrous, heaves narrow, somewhat 
subulate, those of the root shorter than the stem, all scabrous along the mar- 
gin. Sterile spike terminal, small, scales lanceolate. Fertile spikes two to 
three, the upper ones (when two) approximate, on short peduncles, the lower 
distant on a peduncle one to two inches long, all small, somewhat cylindri- 
cal, but not compact. Corolla lanceolate, tapering at each extremity, tri- 
quetrous, somewhat oblique, nerved, the mouth nearly entire, longer than 
the ovate lanceolate scale. The lower bractea leaflike, longer than the 
stem. 
Grows in wet soils. 
Flowers in April. 
38. Guanularis. 
C. spicis foemineis 
tribus remotis, binis 
inferioribus peduncula- 
tis; fructibus globoso- 
ovatis, nervosis, ven- 
tric,osis,brevissime ros- 
tellatis, ore obsolete 
emarginato, squama 
ovato-Ianceolata longi- 
oribus. 
Fertile spikes three, 
distant, the two lower 
pedunculate; fruit o- 
vate, globular, nerved, 
ventricose, with a very 
short beak, the mouth 
slightly emarginate, 
longer than the ovate 
'lanceolate scale. 
Sp. pi. 4. p. 279. Pursh, 1. p. 43. Muhl. Gram. p. 247. 
Stem about twelve inches high, glaucous, when old decumbent. Leaves 
narrow, somewhat glaucous. Spi/ce of sterile florets solitary, sometimes, 
though very rarely, there is a second with fertile florets intermingled. Spikes 
of fertile florets two or three, the lowest on a peduncle, the upper nearly ses- 
sile. The peduncles all sheathed at base. Scale ovate acuminate. Corolla 
nearly round, distinctly nerved, with the mouth entire and recurved. 
This species I ha’ve not seen in this country. In specimens sent me from 
Pennsylvania by Dr. Muhlenberg, some pubescence is visible on the leaf 
and sometimes on the corolla. 
