254 North American Cyperacecb. 
scarious margin. Starmns commonly 3. Style short, two-cleft. Nut 
puncticulate, dark-bro-wn, or black. 
Hab. In bogs, and also in dry soils ; South Carolina and 
Georgia, Muhlenberg ! and Elliott ! — May to September. 
Obs. This species appears to be confined to the southern 
states, and I doubt whether it has been found north of South 
Carolina. It is easily distinguished by its remotely-flowered 
spikelets, and very obtuse, almost truncated scales, with broad 
scarioui margins. In a specimen, received from Mr. Elliott, 
the spikelets are from twenty to thirty-flowered. Mr. E. re- 
marks, that " In bogs it becomes a large plant, 2 — 3 feet high, 
thick and succulent ; in dry soils, even where not sandy, it 
rarely exceeds 12 — 15 inches in height." 
5. Cyperus Elliottianus, Schultes. 
" Spikelets ovate-oblong, many-flowered, in terminal fasci- 
cles; involucrum two-leaved, and with the leaves linear and 
very narrow." 
C. Elliottianus, Schult. rrunit. syst. veg. 2. p. 101. 
C. fasciculatus, Elliott, sTc. 1. p. 63, (not of Lamarck.) 
" Culm 6 inches high, triangular. Leaves 1 — 2, very nar- 
row and almost setaceous, shorter than the culm. Involucrum 
2-leaved, one of the leaves scarcely longer than the spikelets, the 
other very long. Spikelets 5 — 7, all sessile, 12 — 24-flowered. 
Scales rather obtuse : the keel deep green, the margins mem- 
branaceous." Elliott. 
Hab. Near Milledgeville, Georgia. Dr. BoyJcin, fide 
Elliott. 
Mr. Elliott's plant may be some larger species in a dwarf 
state, but his description is too incomplete to distinguish it from 
several other Cyperi. Nees, however, refers it, in his Synops. 
gen. Cyp. to the genus Pycreus of P. de Beauvois, but unless 
he has seen a specimen from Elliott himself (which is hardly 
probable) I suspect that he has examined a different species, 
perhaps the C. diandrus of this monograph. 
