998 JFRIANPRIA asd Scirpus, 2d 
Rayos dis ümibel from half an inch, to one ánd. a half inches long,wih | 
one or two sessile spikes among them.— Leaves of the involucre- ses 
taceous, hairy, one or two, as long as the rays ; the rest as well as 
the involucels shorter than the brown, acute, from three to six lines- 
long spikes.— Scales smooth, broad-ovate, with a greenish rib ending | 
in a short round point; the lowest smaller, two or three of them 
abortive.—Stamens three, short.—-Ovarium minute, surrounded by - : 
three long, hairy bristles. — Style compressed, hairy and ciliate hc 
a broad cordate articulate base. 
Obs. The habit of this grass is that ofa E imbristylis pile dd 
however it differs in having several long, curved bristles attached to 
the base of the ovarium ; it seems fhedefdim to be a rc 
cies of Heg —N. ,W. 
` 35. S. tridentatus. R. i 
Culms straight, from two to five feet high, angular. Umbel ad. 
pound; involucres from two to three; spikelets pointed ; scales ps 
jagg ved and daggered. Secd roundish, three-angied, and bristly. 
Cotiifiaté with S. maritimus.* | ICT d 
Teling. Goorapa-shaka-tunga. 
Grows in water courses, ditches, &c. ends the water is fresh; 
never m salt, or brackish water. : ; ; 
Koot stoloniferous with some small tubers, and many “fibres. ee 
 — Culms erect, rigid, leafy, jointed, from two to five feet high, threes - : 
sided, smooth, angles sharp.— Leaves numerous, sheathing, sub-erect, - 
rigid, keeled, smooth.—Umbel compound, small for the size of the — 
plant.—Involucre from two to three-leaved, erect, unequal, the dd 
est being three times the length of the umbel, and the shortest equal- — 
ling the latter.—Spikes lanceolate or cylindric, large ; some ni : 
some “peduncled — Scales three-toothed, the lateral ones torn; the 
middle one long and subulate, keel'green, the rest rust-coloured. 
wer three-sided, short, thick, — — MÀ dei ihe 
ase. 
Obs. I believe König called it 4 maritimus vindi, but the form 
