Art. VI. An Account of two North American Species of Rottböllia, discovered on the Sea-coast in the State of Georgia.
Art. VI. An Account of two North American Species of Rottböllia, discovered on the Sea-coast in the State of Georgia, by Dr. William Baldwin, of Philadelphia.
Flowers in pairs, or two from each joint of the rachis, one neutral. The neutral, or imperfect flowers, pedicillate.
Rottböllia corrugata.
Culmo erecto, compresso, sulcato, glabro, ramoso: foliis longis angustisque: spicis sub-compressis, nudis super uno latere, solitariis et terminalibus, supremis approximatis: calycis bivalvis, valva exteriori transversè corrugata et longitudinaliter rugosa: corolla trivalvis.
Culm erect, compressed, sulcate, smooth, ramose: leaves long and narrow: spikes slightly compressed, naked on one side, solitary and terminal, approximating towards the summit: calyx 2-valved, the exterior valve transversely corrugate, and longitudinally wrinkled: corolla 3-valved. Vid. Nuttall's North American Genera, v. I. p. 84.[51]