Cuperus. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. (o1. 99 
14. C. polystachyos. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. 1.275. Rottb. gram. 
39. t. 11. f. 1. V aM. Enum. pl. 2.315. 
Culm twelye inches long, leaves short, umbel compound, sessile, 
crowded. Involucre many-leaved. . Style two-cleft. Seeds linear, 
obcordate, without angles. 
Gramen cyperoides, &c. Pluck. mant. 97. tab. 416. fig. 6. is not 
unlike this plant. 
A native of moist pasture land, of Bs &c. . 
Root fibrous.— Cuéms erect, about a foot high, simple, three-sid. 
ed, smooth, lower part involved in the sheaths of the leaves. — Leaves 
shorter than the culm, smooth.—Umbel terminal, compound, crowd- 
ed, sessile, about an inch each way. Umbellets sub-sessile, 
crowded, composed of numerous, sessile, linear-lanceolate spikes, 
—Involucre from four to six-leaved, unequal, the longest being 
from six to eight inches long, and the shortest only one.—Stigma 
two-cleft.— Seed compressed, oblong-obcordate. _ 
15. C. punctatus. R. 
Culms from two to six inches high, shorter than the leaves. Uribe] 
compound. Involucres longer than the leaves. Seeds oval, com- 
pressed, dotted. 
Gramen cyperoides elegans, &c. Pluck. t. 192. f. 3. 
A small elegant species; a native of moist pasture ground. 
Root fibrous.— Culms erect, from two to six inches high, halfnaked, 
three-sided, smooth.— Leaves sheathing, the lower ones little more 
than the sheaths, the superior ones bcr than the culm.—U»nbel 
terminal, compound, about an inch each way. Umbellets some sessile, 
some peduncled, composed of linear, many-flowered spikes.—Invo- 
lucre from three to four-leaved, unequal, longer than the culm; scales 
daggered.— Seed compressed, obovate, beautifully marked with w bite 
dots, on a dark-coloured ground, hence the specific name. 
Obs. In Königs catalogue he called this C. pygmaus, but Retze E 
its says the culm of that species is round, Whereas in this plant ii 
three-sided, — . : : E 
