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clustered, and its panicle rather appressed than diffused. 
It is also remarkable for the facility with which it drops its 
mature glum.es ; so that, in a specimen where the seeds are 
perfect, many of them will be found naked, adhering to their 
pedicels." ElUott, I. c. It is also closely allied to R. cymosa, 
but it is readily distinguished from that species by its larger, 
often pedicellate spikelets, plano-convex fruit, and longer 
bristles. 
(3. RhY^CHOSPORA INEXPANSA, Vahl. 
R. culmo subtriquetro, debili; paniculis subsparsifloris, ramu- 
lis approximato-erectis ; spiculis fusiforrnibus ; nuce oblonga, 
compressa, transversim rugosa, setis sursum hispidis dimidio 
longiori ; tuberculo nuce subtriplo breviore. 
R. inexpansa, Vahl, Enum. 11. ]i. 233. Elliott,! Bot. S. Car. 
<y Georg. I. p. 61. Rcem. ^ Schult. Syst. Veg. 11. p. 85. 
Sprcng Syst Veg. 1. p. 197. 
Schoenus inexpansus, Michx. Fl. I. p. 3-5, et Herb.! Muhl. ! 
Gram. p. 9. 
Cuim 1? — 2 feet high, obscurely triangular, slender, somev/hat nodding. 
Leaves narrow-linear, smooth and short ; cauline ones rather remote, 
as long as the internodes. Panicles 2 — 4, on filiform subpendulous 
peduncles. Spikelets fusiform, subfasciculate. Glumes fuscous, 
ovate, acute. Bristles 6, twice as long as the nut, hispid upward. 
Stamens 3. Style, long, deeply bifid. Nut oblong, compressed, 
evenly rugose. 2\berclc compressed, acute, with the base about the 
width of the summit of the nut. 
Hab. Charleston, S. Carolina, jB/fe>«; Georgia, Dr. Batd- 
win ; near New Orleans, Dr. Ingalh. 
7. Rhynchospora multifi^ora. 
R. culmo triquetro, basi folioso; paniculis axillaribus lermina- 
libusque, ramis subapproximatis, laxifloris ; spiculis ovatis ; 
nuce obovata, compressa, valde rugosa, setis sursum hispi- 
dis duplo breviore. 
