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Cladium Mariscoides Torrey, p. 181
49 Cladium Mariscoides, Torrey.
Syn. C. triglomeratum Kunth. Schoenus mariscoides Muhl.
Culm obscurely triangular; leaves channelled, nearly smooth on the margin; cypresses compound, small, 2 to 4 rayed, the rays elongated; spikelets aggregated in heads of 3 to 8 together; style 3 cleft, the lobes entire. Culms abot 2 feet high, nearly smooth. Flowers in July.
Bogs and borders of ponds. Wisconsin, Ohio, and Michigan. Extends east to the N. England states.
Genus XIII Scleria Linnaeus, p. 182
Genus XIII Scleria, Linneus. (Greek skleros, hardness)
Flowers monoecious; fertile spike one-flowered, usually intermixed with clusters of few flowered staminate spikes; scales loosely imbricated, the lower empty; stamens 1 to 3; style 3 cleft; achenium globular, stony, bony, or enamel-like in texture, seated in a shallow or saucer-like disk.-Culms triangular, leafy, nodose.
Scleria Triglomerata Michaux, p. 183
[49] 50 Scleria Triglomerata Michaux [Linnaeus]
Syn. S. nitida, Kunth. Trachylomia triglomerata
Leaves broadly linear, roughish; fascicles of spikes few, lateral and terminal, in tripple clusters, the lower peduncled; bracts slightly ciliate; scales cuspidate; stamens 3l achenium ovoid-globular slightly pointed, smooth and polished white; perigynium annular, whitish, vascicular-papillose. -Culm 2 to 3 feet high rough. Flowers in July.
Wet places. Beloit Wisconsin (Prof. S.P. Lathrop); also in Illinois [and] Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan.
Plate VII. A plant of the natural size; Fig 1 & 2. scales 3 fertile spike 4 abortive spike 5 nut 6 anther
Extends east to Vermont, and south to Florida.
Scleria Pauciflora Muhlenberg, p. 184
51 Scleria Pauciflora Muhlenberg.
Leaves narrow, with pubescent sheaths, fascicles lateral and terminal, few flowered, the lower remote, peduncled; bracts ciliate; stamens 3; achenium globose-ovoid, verrucose; the 6 tubercles of the perianth approximated in 3 pairs at the base of the achenium. Culms 9 to 18 inches high slender. Flowers in July.
Swamps and hills. Ohio, and Michigan. Extends east to the New England states and south to Florida.
Scleria Verticillatat Muhlenberg, p. 185
52 Scleria verticillata Muhlenberg.
Syn. Hypophorum verticillatum, Nees.
Leaves linear; fasicles 4 to 6 alternate, sessile, distant; bracts minute, setaceous; stamens 1 to 3; achenium globular rugose [ventricose] verrucose, mucronate, the base triangular, naked; perigynium none. Culms 6 to 10 inches high. Flowers in June.
Swamps-Ohio. Extends to the southern states, and eastward to New [England] York.