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MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 
pubescentibus; spica 
glomerata, nuda, glo- 
merubs alternis, dis- 
tantibus; glumis seto- 
sis; nucibus globosis, 
inucronatis, transver- 
sim rugoso-verrucosis. 
leaves pubescent; spike 
clustered, naked, the 
clusters alternate, dis- 
tant; glumes bristly; 
seed globose, mucro- 
nate, transversely 
wrinkled. 
Sp. pi. 4. p. 317- Mich. 2. p. 168. Pursh, 1. p. 45. 
This species I have not seen, but the description of Michaux evidently 
applies here. 
Grows in damp meadows from Carolina to Florida. 
Flowers — - 
COMPTONIA. 
Masculi — Amentum . 
Calyx squama. Co- 
rolla dipetala. Fila- 
menta bifurca. 
Foeminei — Ament- 
um. Calyx squama. 
Corolla liexapetala. 
Styli 2. Nux ovata. 
1. Asplenifolia. 
Gen. Pi.. 1764. 
Sterile Jlorets-A- 
ment. Calyx a scale. 
Corolla 2-petalled. 
Filaments forked. 
Fertile florets — A- 
ment. Calyx a scale. 
Corolla 6-petalled. 
Styles 2. Nut ovate. 
; Sp. pi. 4. p. 320. Mich. 2. p. 203. Pursh, 2. p. 635. Nutt. 2. p. 206. 
A small shrub two to four feet high. Leaves long, linear-lanceolate, al- 
ternate, sessile, irregularly pinnatifid after the manner of a fern, lobes ob- 
tuse. Floivers in oval, sessile, axillary spikes (aments.) Of the sterile 
florets, calyx reniform, acuminate, one-flowered: corolla and filaments shor- 
ter than the calyx; filaments three, divided; anthers six. Of the fertile 
florets, corolla six-leaved, much longer than the calyx. Nut oval, without 
valves. 
The whole plant when bruised is aromatic. 
In specimens which I have from Pennsylvania the stem and leaves are 
slightly pubescent, and the lobes of the leaves somewhat remote. In speci- 
mens from the mountains of Carolina, the leaves on the upper surface are 
more or less hairy, on the under surface tomentose, the lobes nearly orbicu- 
lar, overlaying one another; the branches tomentose. The scales so deeply 
fringed as to make the young aments almost resemble a ball of hair. 
