550 
MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 
narrow lanceolate, nerved, very acute, somewhat scabrous along the mar- 
gins. Sterile spike terminal, slender. Fertile spikes two to three, the low- 
est on a peduncle one to two inches long, the upper ones shorter. Spikes 
few flowered, the flowers unusually distant (for this genus.) Corolla lance- 
olate, tapering at each extremity, oblique, obtusely triquetrons, nerved, the 
mouth nearly entire, about as long as the ovate, acuminate, mucronate scale. 
Bracteal leaves all much longer than the stem. 
Grows in damp, shaded soils. Carolina, Dr. Schweinitz. Allied to C. 
Conoidea? i 
Flowers April — -May. 
41. Hystericina. Muhl. 
C. spica mascula so- 
lit aria, squamis ovato- 
oblongis sub mucrona- 
tis, foemineis cylindra- 
ceis 2 — 4, infima longe 
pedunculata; fructibus 
ovatis, multinervibus, 
rostratis, ore bifidis 
squama oblonga crista- 
ta longioribus. 
Sterile spike solita- 
ry, scales ovate, ob- 
long, slightly mucro- 
nate, fertile spikes cy- 
lindrical 2—4, the low- 
est on a long peduncle; 
fruit ovate, manynerv- 
ed, beaked, the mouth 
two-cleft, longer than 
the oblong awned 
I scale. 
Sp. pi. 4. p. 282. Pursh, 1. p. 43. Muhl. Gram. p. 252. Nutt. 2. p. 
205. 
Stem about two feet high, triquetrous, scabious along the angles. Leaves 
long, narrow, scabrous, sheathing the base of the stem. Sterile spike termi- 
nal, cylindrical, one to two inches long; scales ovate lanceolate, acute, with 
a hispid, setaceous point. Fertile spikes three to four, cylindrical, pedun- 
culate, the lower peduncle very long, scabrous, corolla ovate, attenuate into 
a long, two-cleft beak; scale ovate, small, slightly emarginate, terminated 
with a hispid, setaceous bristle (mucro) nearly as long as the corolla. Brac- 
teal leaves all longer than the stem. 
Grows in bogs and wet soils. Carolina, Dr. Schweinitz. 
Flowers April— May. 
42. Flexuosa. 
C. spicis foemineis Fertile spikes gene- 
subquaternis, remotis, rally four, distant, fili- 
