Scirpus. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ae 
Scales broad-cordate, a little pointed. Stamens three ; the 
bristles of the foregoing five species are here wanting, . Style 
slightly two-cleft, Seed three-sided, smooth, white. 
_ 9. S. subarticulatus, R. 
Culms from two to three feet high ; eabieinax; intercepted 
with inconspicuous partitions, Spikes obtuse, crowded into.a 
head near the base, Seed three-sided, pointed. 3 
A native of the same places with the former. 
Root resembling that of the preceding species. Culm 
erect, from two to three feet high, round, smooth, naked, in- 
tercepted every quarter of an inch by a slight membrane; 
their places do not appear externally even when the plant is 
dry. Leaves no other than a sheath or two. Head lateral, near. 
the base of the culm, sessile, globular, composed of many . 
(about one hundred) small, oval, obtuse, sessile, many-flow- 
ered spikes, Scales oval, membranaceous, Seed hres 
white, smooth, 
10, Ss. dubingssRa some: : 
Root tuberous, Culns ete calumaars cece with 
numerous pa gS a 
_ Teling. Allike. : 
Roots tuberous, with stolones and numerous fibres issuing 
from them, outwardly of a dark dusky colour, inwardly a 
white. Leaves erect, cylindric, smooth, about aeoot long. 
Obs. I have never met with flowers of this plant which 
is a native of wet sandy pasture ground,’ and was formerly 
considered as a species of Isoetes. The natives boil and eat 
the roots which they say an se 00 DO Sia | 
ak Ss. amine hina ee p. plead Will, i 5, 204, Vali 
