MONOECIA TRIANDR1A. 
555 
Sp. pi. 4. p. 3Q6. Muhl. Gram. p. 259. 
Stem about two feet high, triquetrous, smooth, scabrous on the edges to- 
wards the summit. Leaves longer than the stem, strap-shaped, the lower 
forming short sheaths at base, the upper nearly amplexicaule, scabrous along 
the margin. Spikes dioecious and androgynous. Male spikes generally 
four, each about two inches long; scales tapering to an acute point, chaffy, 
scarious. Androg: spikes two to three inches long, erect, on moderately 
long peduncles, the lower one enclosed at base in a short sheath, the two 
upper merely enveloped. Scale ovate, tapering to an acute point, at first 
shorter than the corolla, when mature rather exceeding it in length. Co- 
rolla ovate, slightly acuminate, nerved but not very conspicuously, two-cleft 
at the summit. Stigmas three, long, glandular. Seed triquetrous. 
Grows in the fresh marshes and rice field ditches. Ogeechee. 
Flowers March — April. 
49. Verrucosa. Muhl 
C. spicis mascuiis 
tribus, foemineis pluri- 
mis (4 — 6), erectis, cy- 
lindraceis, apice mas- 
cuiis; coroliis compres- 
sis, ovatis, brevissime 
bifidis, squama ovata, 
subemarginala, mucro- 
nata brevioribus. E. 
Sterile spikes three, 
fertile numerous (4 — 
6), erect, cylindrical, 
bearing sterile flowers 
at the summit; corolla 
compressed, ovate, 
slightly two-cleft, shor- 
ter than the ovate, 
somewhat emarginate, 
mucronate scale. 
Muhl. Gram. p. 26l. 
Stem two to three feet high, triquetrous, glabrous. Leaves very long, 
acute, nerved, somewhat glaucous, sheathing the base of the stem. Sterile 
spikes generally three, the terminal one two to three inches long, cylindrical, 
very obtuse, scale ovate mucronate, dark brown; fertile spikes three to six, 
two to three inches long, all terminated with sterile flowers. Lower pedun- 
cle about one and a half inches long, sheathed at base; the upper shorter, 
nearly surrounded by the long bracteal leaves. Scale ovate, obtuse, some- 
times emarginate, mucronate, dark brown. Corolla ovate, obscurely nerv- 
ed, glaucous, with a very short, slightly cleft mouth, about as long as the 
scale exclusive of the mucronate point. Seed triquetrous. 
Collected many years ago along the road between Stono and Combahee 
Ferry; probably at the latter place. 
Flowers April. 
