216 ‘TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Scirpus. 
S. caribeus, Rottb. gram. 46, t. 15. f. 3. 
A native of barren, sandy, moist places, 
Root fibrous. Culms erect, from four to eight inches high, 
round, smooth, naked, Leaves no other than a sheath or two... 
Spike terminal, naked, sub-globular ; permanent bristles sur- 
round the germ in this species, as in those with single termi- 
nal, cylindric spikes. Style two-cleft. Seed obcordate, com- 
pressed, smooth, shining black. 
12. S. juncoides, R. 
~ Culms from one to three feet high, culumnar. “Spikes oval, — 
from three to five in a sessile head, far below the es ee . 
roundish, beset with bristles. 
A native of wet and marshy places, | 
Root fibrous, Culms erect, from one to three feet high, na- 
ked, round, and slender in proportion to the height, striated, 
otherwise smooth,. Leaves none, except two sheaths embrac- 
ing the base of each culm. Spikes from three to five, lateral, 
sessile, oval, naked, from four to six inches, below the apex 
of the culm, which is erect, and like that below the spikes. 
Involucre none. Stamens three, intermixed with bristles. Stig- 
ma two-cleft. Seed obcordate, compres smooth, white. ~ 
13. S. mucronatus. Linn. ap. pl ed. Wit. 903. Vall = 
enum, ii, 256, © iar VRRP as 
Culms fr8m_ six tb twelve’ satay high, eckaa. z 
‘Spikes ‘pbddlited Gi siecild below the apex. Seed black, 2 
scabrous, sub-triangular. Ba 1 OF 
“A native of sandy ground. is 
Root fibrous, Cuims erect, from six to twelve inches high, 
firm, naked, three-sided, striated, with rounded angles, above _ eS 
the spikes half round, with a groove on the flat side, Spikes —. 
eters, sessile and peduncled, naked, from six to twelve, ob- 
‘long, many-flowered. Vectarial bristles of the germ want- oe: 
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