122 TRIAND. MONOG. 114. MIegia. 115. Eriophorum- 
tnonaniley. Culm felaceous, 3-fided : involucre 3-leaved, long; 
feffile, g'omerate: flowers i-male. ° 
India. Rotti;. gram, 50. /. 14. y. 3. 
tiphalotet. Culm 3-fided, naked: head ovate, fquarrous; 
3-leaved, long. 
India. Houtt. Sj/i, Nat. 12. t. 88. y 3. 
General involucre r'ery long, 3 or 4 -leaved, rough at the edg^' 
F. Culm quadrangular. • 
*acHularis, Culm quadrangular, fetaceous ; fpike ovate, acute, 
nal, folitary. 
Marftes. Engl. Bot. t. 149. Fkr. Dan. t. 287, 
1 14. MIEGIA. Calyx 2-valved, i-flowered: 
a-valved: neElary i-valved, involving die 
marhima. MiEGIA. 
Cayenne and Guiana, jiubl. Guicin. t, p. t, \ 6 . . 
Culms leafy , branched at the top : leaves lanceolate, ftriate, 
panicle contrafled into an ovate terminal fpike, 
115* ERIOPHORUM. Glumes chafFy, 
every way : corol o : feed i, invefted wit>’ 
long hairs. Cotion 
^vaginatum Culms round, flieathed : fpike folitary ; glumes 
branous. 
Bogs. Engl Bot. 873. Curt. Land. 219. Tier. Dan. t. 23^' 
•polystachy Culms round : leaves flat : fpikes feveral, peduncled. 
Bogs. Engl. Bot, Leers, li. t, \ .f. c. 
^ hC 
*angustifo. Culms round, leafy : leaves channelled, triangular at 
tip : fpikes feveral, peduncled. 
Bogs. Eng. Bot. 564. Curt. Land. t. 222. 
virgimeum. Culms round, leafy : leaves flat: fpike Angle, erca. 
Virginia. Pluk. aim. t. 299, f. 4. Moris- hiji.f. 8. t, Q.f. « 
Ca//w compreffed : fpike leafy, large, brown. 
eyperinum. Culrns round, leafy : panicle more than decompound, 
liferous: fpikelets moftly in threes. 
North America. Pluk. mdnt. 62. t. 419. f. 3. 
Cotton dull tellaceoas, hardly longer than the fpikelets. 
Culms naked_, angular; fpike folitary, erect, fhortef 
the cotton. 
Bogs. Engl, Bot. t, 311. Flor. Dan. t, 620. 
*alplnum. 
