552 
MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 
Grows in bogs and wet meadows. MuhL 
Flowers May. 
44. Miliacea. 
C. spicis foemineis 
tribus, filiformibus, 
summa subsessili, reli- 
quis pedunculatis; fruc- 
tibus ovatis, triquetris, 
breve rostratis, ore in- 
tegris, squama oblonga 
emarginata aristata 
longioribus. 
Fertile spikes three, 
filiform, the upper 
nearly sessile, the rest 
pedunculate; fruit o- 
vate, triquetrous, with 
a short beak and en- 
tire mouth, longer than 
the oblong emarginate 
awned scale. 
Sp. pi. 4. p. 290. Pursh, 1. p. 44. Muhl. Gram. p. 257* Nutt. 2. p, 
205. 
Stem slender, triquetrous, scabrous along the angles. Leaves linear, 
acute, scabrous along the margins. Spikes slender, sterile, one terminal; 
fertile two to three, the lower on a long peduncle, pendulous; the upper 
sometimes sessile, when on peduncles pendulous also. Bracteal leaf to the 
lower spike longer than the stem, to the upper small. Scales of the fertile 
florets emarginate with a mucronate point. Corolla ovate, with only the 
lateral nerves, the summit acute and nearly entire, longer than the scale. 
Grows in wet meadows, Canada to Carolina. Pursh, 
Flowers — 
45. Fcrcata. E. 
C. spicis foemineis 
tribus, pedunculatis, 
pendulis, cylindricis; 
fructibus ovato-lanceo- 
latis, rostratis, furca- 
tis, squama subulata, 
primum brevioribus 
demura longioribus. 
Fertile spikes three, 
pedunculate, pendulous, 
cylindrical; fruit ovate 
lanceolate, beaked, 
forked, at first shorter, 
finally longer than the 
subulate scale. 
C. Pseudo Cyperus? Pursh, 1. p. 44, Walt. p. 
