380 North American Cyperacece. 
numerous specimens of Scleria. Michaux does not notice the 
fruit, and I did not particularly examine his specimens. He 
states that it grows in the woods of Carolina. Elliott has a 
variety of this species, which he calls strigosa, and which 
differs from the ordinary form in being "less hairy, excepting 
along the angles of the culm and margin and midrib of the 
leaves ; its spikes also are larger and more numerous ; its 
glumes fringed, of a light chestnut colour ; and the nut rather 
roughened by distinct tubercles than by transverse lines." It 
was collected by Dr. Baldwin on the confines of Georgia and 
Florida ; and Mr. Elliott thinks it may be a distinct species. 
7. Scleria triglomerata, Michx. 
Culm scabrous ; leaves broadly linear, smoothish, some- 
times a little hairy ; fascicles lateral and terminal, triglomerate ; 
the lateral one remote, pedunculate ; bracts slightly ciliate ; 
scales cuspidate ; nut ovate-globose, smooth and polished ; 
perigynium annular, whitish, invested with a cellular crust. 
S. triglomerata, Michx. ! fi. 2. p. 16S ; Muhl. ! gram. p. 260 ; Elliott, 
si: 2. p. 558 ; Beck, hot. p. 430 ; Darlingt. ! fl. Cest. ed. 2. p. 26 ; 
Gray ! Gram. Sf Cyp. part 1, no. 98. 
Culm about 3 feet high, leafy, triquetrous, with the angles almost 
winged. Leaves 2 — 4 lines wide, scabrous on the margin, the under 
surface a little hairy. Terminal fascicle consisting of three distinct 
clusters of spikelets, each with a foliaceous bract at the base ; lateral 
fascicle composed of few spikelets, remote, usually supported on a long 
peduncle ; sometimes it is wanting. Sterile spikelet seated within the 
upper fertile scale, many-flowered ; the scales lanceolate, purplish, and 
marked with deeper lines. Sta7nens 3. Nut bluish when young, at 
length nearly two lines in diameter, sometimes a little uneven. Peri- 
gynium annular, or rather obtusely triangular, entire, covered with a 
cellular, or minutely vesicular, wliitish crust. 
Hab. Low grounds and moist thickets. Vermont ! to 
Florida ! and west to Arkansas ! 
Obs. N. ab Esenbeck (in LinntBa 9. 301.) refers aS". tri- 
