210 ‘TRIANDRIA MONOGYNTA, Scirpus, 
43. C. Haspan, Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd. 1. 287. 
' Culms from four to sixteen inches high. Umbel super-de- 
- compound, involucre two-leaved. Seeds globular, white. 
Gramen cyperoides madasarpatanum, &c, Pluck, aim. 
12. F 2. : 
Teling. Poo-cushalic, : 
An elegant small species, a native of cultivated moist 
places. 
Root fibrous, Culms erect, from four to twelve inches high, 
three-fourths naked, obsoletely three-sided, smooth, Leaves 
sheathing, often as long as the culm, very slender, Umbel ~— 
super-decompound, in small plants as long as the culm. Um- 
bellcts one or two sessile, and from four to six-peduncled. 
Partial umbellets of the first and second degrees pedicelled. 
Involucre generally two-leaved, unequal, the longest rather 
longer than the culm; involucel a few chaffy scales only. 
Stamens two or three. Seed sub-globular, pure white, smooth. 
* 
SCIRPUS., 
“Glumes chatty, imbricated on all sides. Corolnone. Seed’ 
‘SECT. i Without. Leaves. 
wih S.tuberosus, R. | feral act : 
_ Root tuberous. kali cates ial abies aia 
minal, cylindric, naked. Scales oblong. Rie ee 
cordate, Seed obcordate, beset with glochidate bristles. 
Pi-tsi, Maa-tai, Pu-tsai, or Pe-tsi, or water chesnut of the é 
Chinese. yo 
_ It is mentioned by Abbe Grosier under the. first name, wes 
under the other appellations was transmitted from Canton, by* 
Mr. Duncan, at the desire of the Governor General, for the’ . 
Company’s Botanic garden, where it blown about the: : 
lose wt the zap, in sit sy ae 
