TRIANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 
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* short, folioles ovate, erect, nerved. Peduncles 
unequal, proliferous. Spikelets small^long-linear, 
many-flowered. Calix glumes lanceolate, brown. 
Pistillum trifid. Root fibrous. MuhL Descrip. 
Uberior Gram. p. 18. 
Cyperus nodosus. Willd. ? 
Cyperus juncoides, Lam. Illustr. 
Cyperus complanatus, Willd. sp. pi. 1. p. 2iT0. 
Icon. Rott. gram. t. IT. f. 3. (Pursh.) 
In similar places with the preceding, near this city, in Jer- 
sey. Mr. Nuttall ; Dr. Stuve. 
6. C. capitulum, somewhat globose, glomerated ; uncinattfis, 
spikelets linear about 8-flowered. Valves lanceo- 
late, acuminated backward, involucrum about 
two-leaved, very long. Pursh. 
A very small plant flowering from an inch to two inches in 
height. On the gravelly banks of the Delaware, Jersey side. 
Mr" Nuttall. Biennial. June. 
29. Dulichium, Richard, Pers. ench. 1. p. 65. (Cype* 
roidece.J 
Spikes somewhat racemose, axillary. Spike- 
lets linear-lanceolate, rather compressed. 
Calicine scales subulate, almost distichally 
sheathing. Style very long, bifid. Invo- 
lucellate setae long and scabrous. Seed acu- 
minated by the base of the style. Nutt. 
1. D. Stem columnar, with leaves pointing in three spathaceus. 
directions, spikelets expanding, subulate, in axil- 
lary racemes. Elliot. 
Cyperus spathaceus, sp. pi. 1. p. 289. 
Scirpus spathaceus, Mich. 1. p. 32. 
Pleuranthus floribundus, Richard, (Pursh.) 
Schoenus angustifolius, Vahl. enum. 2. p. 22£. 
(Pursh.) 
Icon. Pluk. aim. t. 301. f. I. 
Sheathed Dulichium. 
