
          Scirpus

Culm tripteris, leafless, with naked sheaths at the base : Spikes lateral
6 - 12, aggregated, sessile, ovate oblong : scales orbiscular ovate mucronato
bristles [crossed out: ? rough] [extremely hupid.,?] styli 3 cleft : nut triangular ?

Culm 2 to 7 feet high mucronato at the extremity very remarkably
tripteris with one or more sheaths at the base several inches in length
Spikes in a dense cluster near the summit. Scales often emarginate
with the [sindul?] produced into a point the sides femiginorm margin
icunois Stamen 3 [added: stype 3 cleft] (nut dark brown and dull, triangular?)

Near Salt Marsh Seckonk River, Providence R.I.
        