Cyperus. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 193, 
14, C. polystachyos, Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd, 1. 275. 
Rottb. gram, 39, t. 11. f. 1. Vahl. enum, pl. 2. 315. 
Culm twelve inches long ; leaves short; wmbel compound, 
sessile, crowded. Tavelaaoe ianydeebell Style two-cleft. 
Seeds linear, obcordate, without angles, 
Gramen cyperoides, &e, Pluck. mant, 97. tab. 416. fa 6. 
is not unlike this plant. 
A native of moist pasture land, of ditches, Kc. 
Root fibrous, Culms erect, about a foot high, simple, 
three-sided, smooth, lower part involved in the sheaths of the 
leaves. Leaves shorter than the culm, smooth. Umbel 
terminal, compound, crowded, sessile, about an inch each 
way. Umbellets sub-sessile, crowded, composed of numerous, 
sessile, linear-lanceolate spikes. Involucre from four to Six- 
leaved, unequal, the longest being from six to eight inches 
long, and the shortest, only one. Stigma two-cleft. Seed 
compressed, oblong-obcordate. : 
goulb. ©. PORES R. 
Culms from two to six inches high, shorter than the leaves, 
Umbel compound. Involucres longer than the saab Seeds 
oval, compressed, dotted, 
_ Gramen cyperoides elegans, &c. Pluck, t. 192. f. 3. 
A small elegant species; a native of moist pasture ground. 
Root fibrous. Culms erect, from two to six inches high, 
half naked, three-sided, smooth. Leaves sheathing, the lower 
_ ones little more than the sheaths, the superior ones longer 
than the culm. Umbel terminal, compound, about an inch 
_ each way. Umbellets some sessile, some peduncled, compos- 
ed of linear, many-flowered spikes. Involucre from three to 
four-leaved, unequal, longer than the culm ; scales dagg: 
Seed an Hicaas pegs beautifully marked with white 
