Hypolytrum compactum Nees & Meyen

3.3041# lypolytrum oompactum Hees* Bonse tuft# la
wet adobe »oil of low forested flats at 5$	©tem an-
gular, smooth, strictly'erect or ascending, at; ~Da0e
clothed with marcescent sheath», varying from 1 foot to
a yard in heigtth, the anglea toward the top rounded * leaves
ascending from the base, strongly recurved, grooved*along
the mpper side especially so toward tbe base, dark greon,
a shade paler beneath; inflorescence erect, congested, the
bracts of the spikelets avellaneons, the stigmas whitish;
aekenes green, subtended by dull brown bracts# flatter on the
upper side than on the otheri rootstock stout, branched,
the roots aaple* wiry; Puerto Prtnee^ftxl^	NOTLP
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