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remote. Spikelets turgidly ovate, about a line in length. Glumes 
dark fuscous. Bristles 6, ? very fragile, scarcely equalling the nut, 
minutely hispid upward. Stamens 3. Nut less than half a line in 
length, ovate, flattened, transversely rugose, with minute longitudinal 
strife. Tubercle very short, compressed. 
Hab. Ill wet savannahs. Flowers June — July. St. Mary's 
Florida, Dr. Baldwin; Wilmington, N. Carolina, Or. Murtis. 
Obs. The bristles in this species, on account of their extreme 
fragility, are seldom found entire when the fruit is mature. 
10. Rhynchospora plumosa. Ell. 
R. culmo triquetro foliisque setaceis ; glomerulis paucifloris, ad 
summitatem culmi subcongestis ; bracteis aristatis ; nuce 
globuloso-obovata, transversim rugosa, setasplumosas sequan- 
te ; tuberculo brevissimo. 
R. plumosa, Elliott, ! Bot. S. Car. ^ Georg. I. p. 58. i?fl?w. 
^ Schuh. Ma7it. 11. p. 50. Spreng. Syst Veg.l. p. 195. 
Schoenus ciliaris, Muhl. Gram. p. 11. 
Culm 8 — 12 inches high, triangular, smooth. Leaves setaceous and 
somewhat rigid, shorter then the culm. Flowers in small fascicles, 
forming a loose cylindrical spike, sometimes furnished with a sub- 
remote, pedunculate, axillary spike. Bracts setaceous ; tne lower 
ones an inch or more in length. Glumes fuscous, broad-ovate ; the 
outer ones mucronate. Bristles 6, plumose, as long as the nut. Nut 
globosely obovate or ovate, about a line in length. Tubercle short, 
depressed-conic, apiculate. 
Hab. In dry pine barrens. Flowers from June to August. 
Charleston, South Carolina, Elliott; Florida., Br. Baldwin ; 
Georgia, Le Conte ; Fayetteville, N. Carolina, Schiveinitz; 
"Wilmington, N. Carolina, Mr. Curtis. 
11. Rhynchospora punctata. Ell. 
R. paniculis corymboso-fasciculatis, exserte pedunculatis ; nuce 
obovato-compressa, reticulato-rugulosa, alveolis impressis, 
