"204 Moiiograjjh of North Ainer'iccui Rhyyichoaporce, 
setis sursum hispidulis paulo breviore ; tuberculo compresso- 
conico. 
R. punctata, Elliott, Bot. S. Car. Sf Georg. I. p. 60. Roam. ^' 
Schidt. Mant. 11. p. 51. Spreng. Sysf. Veg. I. p. 196. 
(excl. syn.) 
Cubn slender, triangular, 1 — 2 feet high. Radical leaves not seen ; 
cauline ones 1 — 2 inches in length, linear-lanceolate, acute. Co- 
rymhs 3 — 4, lateral and terminal, fascicled; the lateral ones sub- 
simple, distant and long-peduncled. Fascicles subtended by short 
setaceous and rigid bracts. Spikelets ovate. Glumes chesnut-co- 
loured, ovate, the lower ones mucronate. Bristles 6, a little exceed- 
ing the nut, slightly hispid upward. Stamens 3. Nut ovate, com- 
pressed, reticulately rugose, with impressed alveoli. Tubercle com- 
pressed-conic, shorter than the nut. 
Hab. Savannah, Georgia ; and St. Mary's, Florida, Dr. Bald- 
loiti. Flowers May — June. 
Obs. In the specimens collected in Florida by the late Dr. 
Baldwin, the discoverer of this species, the lateral corymbs 
are distant and not clustered together at the summit of the 
culm. Except in this unimportant variation, the plant I have 
described agrees in every respect with the detailed descrip- 
tion of Elliott, who also obtained his specimens from Dr. 
Baldwin. 
12. Rhynchospora Elliottii. 
R culmo triquetro ; corymbis fasciculatis, paucifloris ; spiculis 
ovato-oblongis ; nuce subgloboso-ovata, laevissime rugulosa, 
setis sursum hispidis paulo breviore ; tuberculo brevi, de- 
presso-conico. 
R. distans, Elliott, Bot. S. Car. Sf Georg. I. p. 59, (excl. syn.) 
non Vahl. 
Schoenus distans, Muhl. Gram. p. 10. 
S. fuscus, Muhl. Gram. p. 6. 
Culm 1 — 2 feet high, rather slender, exactly triquetrous. Leaves narrow- 
linear, flat, glabrous. Corymbs 3 — 4, terminal and lateral, exsertly 
