Scirpus. TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 231 
bel, partial involucres small.—Spikes numerous, oblong, some ses- 
sile, some peduncled, exclusive of the naked rachis of those that 
are old, dark brown.—Seales oblong, obtuse, dark brown.—Sia- 
mens two.-—Stigmas two-cleft. Seed obcordate, much | compress- 
ed, smooth, brown. 
40. S. (Isolepis) densus. Wall. 
Culms tufted, setaceous as well as the short leaves; sheaths beard- 
ed ; umbel decom pound with unequal capillary rays ; ee squar- 
rose, awned ; spikelets oval , long-peduncled, except the central ones. 
Native of Nepala ; in vigour during the rains. 
A most slender, glaucous, capillary, spreading, smooth grass, 
_ which forms extensive and dense tufts. Root grayish, consisting of — 
innumerable long fibres. Culms from six to twelve inches high, three- 
ornered.— Leaves three or four near the base of the grass, aud a great 
many radical ones, three or four times shorter than the culm; sheaths : 
short, flaccid, brown, with a number of long curved hairs at their 
back and mouth. Rays about five, unequal, mostly an inch long; 
some of them bearing a few-spiked umbellet, others supporting only 
asingle spikelet. Scales of the involucre chaffy, brown, imbricating, 
one of them often ending in a capillary leaflet.—Spikelets very 
small, brown, somewhat angular, consisting of oval, keeled, pointed 
scales.— Seed obovate, sharply three-cornered.— Bristles none. — 
Obs, The root, culm, leaves and sheaths of this elegant little grass 
are exactly like those of Isolepis barbata, (see above ;) the inflores- 
cence, however, is totally different. —cN. W. 
41. S. miliaceus. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed: Willd. i. 805. - Rott. gram 
57. t. 5. f. 2. Retz. Obs. 5. 16. 
Culini erect, from one to two feet high, sidi Gotta Umbel 
decompound ; involucres and involucels Bore than the rump "n | 
"mbellets. Seed obcordate, striated. 
Fimbristylis miliacea. Vahl. Enum. ii. 987. 
This species delights in wet pasture ground. 
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