Fuirena squarrosa Michx.

Fuirena squarrosa Michx. Fl. Bor.-Am. 1 : Z7. 1803
Fuirena hispida-EW. Hot. S. C. & Ga. 1 : 579. 1821. ("High ridges between the Flint and Chat-
tahoochie Rivers, Georgia. ) Fuirena pumila Torr. ; Spreng. Syst. 1: 237. 1825. (Long Island N Y) hmrena squarrosa pumila Torr. Comp. 46. 1826 Fuirena Torreyana Beck, Bot. U. S. 429. 1833. Fuirena squarrosa var. hispida Chapm. Fl. S. U. S. 514 1860 Fuirena squarrosa var. breviseta Coville, Bull. Torrey Club 17-6 1890 Fuirena breviseta Coville; Harper, Bull. Torrey Club 28: 466. 1901.
Perennial, to 1 m. tall, with a short, creeping or bulbous rootstock, or becoming dwarfed and annual (var. pumila); culms slender, many-angled, glabrous to hispid; leaves and sheaths nearly glabrous to densely hispid, 2-7 mm. wide, the blades to 2 dm. longspikelets 2-8, 5-15 mm. long, in squarrose, capitate terminal or axillary clusters, the spreading awns of the hispid scales prominent; perianth-scales long-aristate at the apex; bristles from very short to as long as the scales, smooth to retrorsely toothed; mature achene dark brown with a long prominently hispid beak sometimes nearly glabrous in var. pumila; anthers OS0.75 mm. long.
Type locality : Georgia