MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 549 
Grows in barren meadows and woods, from Canada to Carolina. Pursh. 
Flowers in May. 
39. Tetanica. 
C. spicis foemineis 
binis, remotis, suprema 
subsessili, infima longe 
pedunculata; fructibus 
ovatis, utrinque acutis 
apice recurvis, ore in- 
tegris, squama obtusa 
ovata longioribus. 
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Pursh, 1. p. 43. Muhl. Gram. p. ! 
C. Striatula? Mich. 2. p. 173. 
Stem twelve to eighteen inches 
Leaves linear, acute, much shorter th; 
rile one terminal, fertile generally tv 
wards the summit of the stem, the lov 
sterile florets obtuse; of the fertile, i 
quetrous, acute at each end, distinctly 
Grows in Carolina. Mich. Sent 
Schweinitz. 
Flowers — ■ 
Fertile spikes two, 
distant, the upper near- 
ly sessile, the lowest on 
a long peduncle; fruit 
ovate, acute at each 
end, recurved at the 
summit, entire at the 
mouth, longer than the 
scale. 
!50. Nutt. 2. p. 205. 
high, slender, triquetrous, glabrous., 
m the stem. Spikes few, small; ste* 
o, very distant, one nearly sessile to- 
rer pedunculate, erect. Scales of the 
n my specimens, acute. Corolla tri- 
nerved, somewhat oblique, 
to me from North-Carolina by Dr. 
40. Laxiflora. La Marck? 
C. spicis foemineis 
tribus, distantibus, 6 — 
8 floris, infima remote 
pedunculata; fructibus 
oblongis ventricosis, 
obtusis, squama ovata 
mucronata majoribus. 
Fertile spikes three, 
distant, 6 — 8 flowered, 
the lowest distant, pe- 
duncled; fruit oblong 
ventricose, obtuse, 
larger than the ovate, 
mucronate scale. 
Sp. pi. 4. p. 281. Pursh, 1. p. 43. Muhl. Gram. p. 251. Nutt. 2. p. 
205. 
Stem one to two feet high, triquetrous, with the margin scabrous. Leaves 
