194 TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, | Cyperus, 
16. C. eapillaris. Kon, Mss, 
Culm filiform, from one to two feet high. Unbel of one ses- 
sile, and two. pedicelled umbellets. Jnvoluere three-leaved, 
filiform, florets diandrous... Style two-cleft. _ Seed obovate, + 
without angles. ’ 7 
A native of moist pasture ground. ye 
Root fibrous. Culms erect, from twelve to eighteen i in- | 
ches high, three-sided, filiform, three-fourths or more naked, 
Leaves sheathing, generally two to each culm; the lower one _ 
short, superior one as long as the culm, very. slender and 
smooth, Umbel small, compound, generally composed of one 
- sessile, and two. peduncled umbellets, these are again compos-._ 
ed of linear, many-flowered spikes, Involucre shtegdaeneal, 
filiform, the largest is longer than the culm; theshortest about. 
an inch long, and the other between the two. .. Scales ¢ mem-— 
branaceous, obtuse, Stamens two, Style two-cleft. Seed obo-— 
vate, compressed, brown, pretty smooth, half hid in the rachis. : 
17. C. compressus. Linn. sp. pl. ed. Willd. 1,282. Vahte 
enum, pl, 2. 324. 
Culms from six to ten inches high, shorter than the leaves, 
angles blunt. Umbel simple or compound. IJnvolucre three-, 
leaved, Scales daggered. Seed obcordate, triangular...» 
Gramen cy peroides rarius, &c. Pluck, t. Ae ibe 
Beng. Chooncha, _. aid ae 
Teling.. Salitunga. 
‘Delights i in a moist soil, 3 aa 
Root fibrous. Culms erect, from six toten asocuiiiakiae. 
thirds naked, three-sided, smooth ; angles blunt, Leaves nu-~ 
merous »Sheathing, many of themlonger than theculms,smooth 
and glossy. _Umbel terminal, simple; or compound; when. 
compound.the umbellets are peduncled, from one to.three, 
and. consist of from three to six, green, linear, sessile,.many-_ 
flowered spikes, Involucre three-leaved, smooth, the largest of — 
_ them is nez aes lane ane, culm, Seales acti. Sopdet 
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