220 J TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, © Svirpus. i 
- Found growing in tufts, in wet places, in the mine of Coloni, 
. during the. cobl season. f 
Root of brown capillary fibres.— Culms numerous, about a foot ; 
_ high, curved, three-cornered, angles rounded, above the spikes i ine A 
curved, and deeply channelled.— Leaves rarely any other than a few 
` short sheaths, investing the base of the culms, and they- generaly 
end in an ensiform point, when present solitary and like the culm | 
above the spikes.— Spikes many, peduucled and sessile, considera- - 
bly under the apex, oblong.— Scales ovate, mucronate, vid ag d 
chaffy margins.— Seed three-sided, black, transversely rugosee —— — 
16. S. globulosus, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 301. 
Culms from one to two feet high, nearly culumnar. Umbel | 
pound; involucre shorter than the umbel. Seed long , obovate, sm 
 Teling. Billapa. — : Feeds 
A native of wet sandy places. - i 
— Root fibrous.—Culms erect, from one to two feet high, as dil E 
 2crow quill, a little compressed, smooth , except near the base w which 
is involved in, from three to five, large, pointed sheaths,— Umbel ter 
minal, small, compound. Spikes oval.— Involucre two-leaved, un- 
-equal, erect, shorter than the umbel.— Filaments three, broad, and 
membranaceous.— Style broad, margins fringed. Stigma two j-cleft. 
— Seed — eta smooth, light brown, — 
37. S. pectinatus. R. ; E : 
Culms from three to four feet high, culumnar, Panicle lateral, j us 
: below the straight subulate apex of the culm. Scales daggered- Stig- 
ma two-cleft. Seed roundish, beset with four pinnate bristles. 
Grows chiefly i in marshy places, where the soil is sandy. o EA 
Root fibrous.— Culnis erect, from three to four feet high, as tick 2 
asa quill, naked, round, smooth.— Leaves no other. than a de. 
_ or two round the base of each culm —Umbel lateral, ‘about its p. 
own length. below the apex of the culm, compound, rarely. decom- E 
> — pes. oblong —Aacoluere n no other thant the: te 
