Cyperus, TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 195 . 
Obs. The Upper flowers of the spike are. ives . 
18. C. castaneus, Tua sp. pl. ed. Willd. 1, 278, 
Culms from two to six inches high, length of the leaves, 
Umbels generally compound ; length of the involucre. Scales 
with long recurved) points; monenares - Seed rugose, ob- 
tusely triangular. | 
A most beautiful delicate, small species; delights in moist, — 
sandy, pasture land. 
_ Root fibrous. Culms erect, from two to six inches high, 
naked, three-sided, smooth. Leaves sheathing, filiform, 
scarcely so long as the culm. Umbel terminal, one or one 
and a half inch, simple, or compound, but in general com- 
_ posed of from one to five small peduncled umbellets,: and. 
one or two sessile ones. Spikelets linear, many-flowered. 
Scales’ three-keeled, with a recurved point, green keel and 
chesnut-coloured sides. Stamen single, (at least I_haye not 
found more.) Style tro, Seed genet dee 
oblong, rugose. PRES TIE 
19. °C. di forms. Linni Sp. ~ ed, Witla, 1. 250, Vahl. 
enum, 2. 337. s 
— Culm. Gileapsiines 2b; sebphteet ‘Gches high, angles, sharp, 
Umbels ; ‘compound umbellets globular ; spikelets: crowded. — 
Involuere frorn two to  thre-leaved. Scales imbricated.: peed ? 
obovate, thtee-sided. Bars 
Gramen cyperoides, &c. Pluck. aie 192. Fe3. 
Beng. Beliooa, . 
Grows equally in either a dry, or wet sandy soil, 
Root fibrous. Culms two-thirds naked, erect,’ ‘from‘nine 
to eighteen inches high, three-sided, smooth, angles sharp. 
Leaves sheathing, as long as the culm, keeled, smooth. Uni- 
belly eerie ose belo aaily, sates and\a half-each 
ellets from two:to four, sub-sessile, and from two 
to four Jonge iaxabbetes poland, iplihler, composed of 
innumerable, very. small, oval. apes ianuoleree: from two to. 
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