196 TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Cyperus. 
three-leaved, very unequal, the longer being half as long as 
the culm; and the third (when present) less than an inch, 
Scales imbricated, margins membranaceous, Seed three- 
sided. 
20. C. pumilus. Linn, sp. pl: ed. Willd. 1. 282. Rott. 
gram. 29. t. 9. f. 4. Vahl, enum, pl. 2. 330. 
' Culms about six inches high, angles blunt. Umbels com- 
pound umbellets sub-globular. Spikelets ; scales win oe 
. Delights in a moist soil. 
- Root fibrous. Culms’ erect, six inches high, half naked, 
shisiboteky three-sided, smooth, angles rounded. Leaves 
sheathing, shorter than the culm. “Umbel compound ; wmbel- 
- lets from three to six, shorter or longer peduncled, globular, 
composed of ten or twelve linear, many-flowered spikes, Jn- 
volucre three or four-leaved, unequal, ure a. as 
the culm. Scales acute. 
21. C. eruentus. Linn. sp. pl. ed. Willd. 1.275. nites 
gram. 21. t. 5. f. 1. 
- Culms three-sided, from six to twelve inches long. ‘Leaves 
sub-radical ; wmbel compound ; involucre three or four-leav- 
ed. Scales obtuse, Flowers diandrous. Sys twassdlone ~~ 
round and smooth, 
A native of low pasture land all over sense Ke, sae wk 
is found growing in tufts during the —_ ene most of 
SS order. ao 
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- Obs. Cattle _ eat it excepts when prose by ange. 
22, C. incurvatus. R. 
Culms triangular, base lens incurvate. Umbel comjsoniedl 
Involucres ‘two or three, incurvate.. Spikes PRAT 
incurved, Scales oblong, obtuse. Stina three-cleft. 
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