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pedunculate, nearly simple and few-flowered. Splkelets fasciculate, 
sessile, ovate or oblong-ovate. Glumes \\^\\, chesnut-coloured, ovate; 
the interior ones mucronate. Bristles 6, hispid upward, fuscous, a 
little longer than the nut, but scarcely exceeding the tubercle. Sta- 
mens 3 — 6. Style very long, deeply bifid. Nut brownish red, sub- 
globosely ovate, a little attenuate at the base and slightly produced at 
the summit ; under a lens appearing minutely transversely rugose, 
but to the naked eye nearly smooth. Tubercle very short, depressed- 
conic. 
Hab. In damp savannahs, Wilmington, North Carolina, Mr. 
Curtis ; Havanna, Georgia, and New Smyrna, Florida ^ 
Dr. Baldwin, {sub. nam. R. distans.) ; Gadsden County, 
Middle Florida, Dr. Chapman. 
Obs. This species, which is well described by the distinguished 
botanist whose name it bears, differs widely from Schcenus 
distans of Michaux. It is compared by Elliott with his R. 
punctata, which indeed it somewhat resembles, but the two 
species cannot be confounded. The light chesnut-coloured 
spikelets in this species are quite remarkable. There is a 
specimen of this plant in Muhlenberg's herbarium, labelled 
" Schcenus fuscus, Elliott f and from this specimen the de- 
tailed description of *S'. fuscus, Muhl. Gram, was probably 
drawn, as it compares quite well with this species, and not 
at all with S.fuscus, Linn. There is no specimen under the 
name of 6'. distans in Muhlenberg's herbarium ; but as he 
asks whether his S. J'uscus may not be S. distans, Michx. 
and as he probably drew his description from specimens sent 
either by Elliott or Dr. Baldwin, I cannot doubt that the sy- 
nonym is properly referred. 
* * Nut not rugose. 
13. RHyXCHOSPORA CORXICULATA. 
R. corymbis decompositis, difFusis ; spiculis (magnis) laxe fas- 
ciculatis ; nuce obovata, laevi, stylo persistente multo brevi- 
ore, setis subulatis, inequalibus, sursum hispidulis, longiori. 
