Eleocharis Compressa Sullivant, p. 149

[23] 22 Eleocharis Compressa Sullivant.

Culms flat, strongly striate, slender, erect; spike ovate-oblong,-20 to 30 flowered; scales lanceolate-ovate acute, dark purple with a broad white margin, the summit two-cleft; achenium obovate=pear shaped, obtusely 3 angled, obscurely wrinkled, crowned with a small globular conical tubercle; bristles none. Culms about 18 inches high, growing in tufts from running root stocks.

Central Ohio-(Wm. S. Sullivant) & Southern Illinois Dr [Englemann?] Found also in Louisiana by the late Dr. Carpenter.

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