212 TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Scirpus. 
2.8. plantaginus. Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd. 1. 291. Rottb. 
gram, 45, t, 15. f. 2. Vahl. enum, pl. 2. 251. Retz. Obs. 5, 14. 
Culms culumnar, from two to four feet high, intercepted. 
Spike terminal, naked, sub-cylindric ; scales oblong, obtuse. 
Seeds beset with bristles, 
A leafless, rush-like species; it grows in shallow — 
sweet water. | 
Root stoloniferous, with thick, spongy, and ae fibres. 
Culm erect, round, smooth, naked, except the lower part, 
which is covered witha membranaceous sheath or two ; in- 
wardly intercepted with transverse, rigid septums, at every 
inch and quarter, besides numberless, irregular, smaller ones 
between, Spike terminal, cylindric, two inches long, naked: 
Scales obovate, smooth, a little keeled, margins membrana- 
ceous. Stamens three, with bristles intermixed round the a 
of the germ. 
3. S.tumidus, R. 
Culms from two to three feet high, round, eS inter- 
cepted, Spike terminal, cylindric. Scales broad-lanceolate: 
Seeds beset with simple bristles. 
_ This species is very much like the last desribed, <a a 
native of similar. places, but much rarer, 
Root, the same, Culm erect, three feet high, incl, sessing 
naked, seemingly swelled, intercepted with a conspicuous 
transverse partition every sixth of aninch, Leaves none, but 
sheaths as in the: former. Spike single, terminal, erect, cy- 
lindric, an inch long. Scales broad-lanceolate, acute, a little 
keeled, otherwise’ smooth, Stamens, bristles, &c. as in - a 
other species, 
ALS, spiralis. Kit sp. pl. ed. Willd, ds 200, Rottb. ram 
eee eeials Vahl, 2, 252, 
| pe from two to three feet. aah three-sided.- ile 
