North American Cyperacea, 386 
Tribe VIL ELYNE^E. 
FliOWErs diclinous. Spikes compound ; scales distich- 
ously or every way imbricated, each covering a single uni- 
sexual or two diclinous florets. No proper Perigynium. 
Nut commonly rostrate. Style 3-cleft. 
ELYNA, Schrader. 
Spike solitary, terminal. Scales two-flowered, androgy- 
nous. Scales of the Florets {squamula) one to each ; the 
lower or pistillate one next the scale of the spike, enclosing 
the base of the narrow and oblique staminate squamula. — 
Habit of Carex. Leaves radical, setaceous. 
Elyna, Schrader, ji. Germ, 1. p. 155 ; Lestib. ess. fam, 
Cyp. p. 25, no. 10 ; N. ah Esenh. in Linncea, 9. p. 304. 
Species of Kobresia, Willd., Persoon,ScJikuJir, &c. 
Elyna spicata, Schrader, I. c. 
Kobresia scirpina, Willd. sp. 4. p. 205 ; Schkuhr, car. 2. p. 1 ; Pers. 
syn. 2. p. 534 ; ^Vahl. Ji. Suec. 2. p. 583 ; Rich. app. Frankl. 
journ. ed. 2. p. 34. 
K. filiformis, Dewey ! in Sill. jour. 19, p. 253. 
Carex Bellardi, Schkuhr, car. 1. p. 12. t. D. f. 16 ; Wahl, act. HoIttu 
(1803), p. 141. 
Cespitose. Stems 4 to 12 inches high, erect, smooth. Leaves mostly 
radical, scarcely as long as the culm, setaceous. Spike from half an 
inch to an inch long, cylindrical, ralher loosely flowered below. Scales 
of the spike ovate, fuscous ; the lowest one usually produced into a short 
ctisp. Scale of the pistillate floret ovate-lanceolate, loosely enclosing the 
nut and the base of the linear-lanceolate staminate scale. Stamens 3. 
Style 3-cleft. Nut ovate-oblong, obscurely trigonous, somewhat flat- 
tened on one sideand angular on the other, abruptly acuminated into the 
style. 
