Ee es this species, as in those with single, terminal, cylindric s 
218 : /—  TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Scirpus. — 
quarter of an inch by-a slight membrane ; their places do not appear 
externally even when the plant is dry. — Leaves no other than a sheath - 
- or two.—Head lateral, near the base of the culm, sessile, globular, - 
composed of many, (about one huudred) small, oval, obtuse, sessile, 
many-flowered spikes.— Scales oval, membranaceous.—Seed sheen yo 
sided, white, smooth. E | 
TO. s. dubius. R. | : 
Root tuberous. Culms naked, thier intéftepted with. numer- d 
ous partitions. ` 
Teling. Allike. 
'— Roots tuberous, with stolones and numerous fibres jd from, ; 
: bent; outwardly of a dark dusky colour, inwardly white. m ; 
erect, cylindric, smooth, about 2 foot long. 
Obs. I have never met with flowers of this plant which i is am 
tive of wet sandy pasture ground, and was formerly considered ass 
species of Isoetés. The natives boil and eat the roots which er Ms 
anaes et 2. RE MS 
- 31. S. capitatus. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 294. Z ahl. ii» 250. a 
Culms naked, from four to eight inches high, culumnar ; ; em A 
terminal, globular. . Seed black, roundish, bristle-beset. - ; 
| S. caribeus. Rottb. gram. 46. t. 15. f. 3. STUN prn aif 
A native of barren, sandy, moist places. | gue 
Root. fibrous.—Culms erect, from four to eight inches high, round, 
soos: naked.— Leaves no other than a sheath or two.—Spiketer 
 minal, naked, ‘sub- globular ; permanent bristles surround the pt 
2 
. Style two-cleft.— Seed —— ssi — shining ac 
38. S. jenecda R es ; 
Culms from one to three feet. lig, culumnar. Spikes oval, fem P 
three to five in a sessile head, far below the apex. 4 roui adii M 
_ „beset with bristles. . : 
ES native of wet and marshy places, - 
