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| Genera re Calamari by Linneus, and ihe 
Scirpus. TRIANDAIA MONOGYNIA. ‘ Bor, 
te uns 
BO. Sc. wai sit mikis er * 
Culms straight, from six to fifteen feet high, tiitigntir. Umbel 
décompound ; spikelets roundish. Seed Secene; three-sided, with- 
out bristles. 
. Sc. grossus. Retz. Obs, v. 15. and probably Linn. Suppl. p. 104. 
Teling. Booda-tunga. 
Is found only én pretty. deep, standing, sweet water. 
Root fibrous, and stoloniferous.—Culms erect, most rigid, naked, 
except at the base, from six to fifteen feet high, and from one td two: 
inches in diameter, three-sided ; angles very sharp ; sides somewhat s 
concave.— Leaves, mostly radical, almost as long : as the culm, much ! 
keeled, (a transverse section appears like the letter V): à i00! i 
side only a little striated—Umbel super-decompound, | gene: 
about a foot long .— Involucre, from three to four-leaved, the largest 
from three to four feet long, the smallest from three to four inches, 
smooth.—Involucel chaffy.—Spikes minute, ovate, few-flowered.— 
Scales broad, and short.—Stamens three .— Stigma three-cleft.— 
Seed three-sided, without bristles, which easily distinguishes it from 
1 the last Sc. grossus. 
. Obs. T have not in any of the foregoing genera of Cyperoidee 
taken notice of the sheaths which embrace the base of the peduncles 
and pedicels of the umbels, and their sub-divisions ; because they 
ame common to all, and so much alike, that I do not think they 
can convey any information. Nor have I attended to the form of 
those peduncles and pedicels ; because I have not found it uniform. 
The culm, inflorescence, involucre, and seed, are I think, the best. 
marks to discriminate the species by, particularly the culm and 
. Seed. . The number of stamens and divisions of stigma, sometimes 
: vary even in the same p much 1 more in different base of d 
same species. ^ ny 
Nearly the whole of the plants belonging to the six fore 5 
