Scirpus. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 219° 
SECT. Il.. With Leaves. 
19. 8. shiesniiyiitaiac Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd. i. 204. 
_ Grows in small tufts, Culms from three.to four inches 
high, setaceous, erect, culumnar, longer the leaves. Spikes 
terminal, naked, solitary, oval.. 
-A-native of poor, wet sandy, pasture land. 
20. S. minimus. R. 
Grows in tufts. Culms Front. one to two inches long, seta- 
ceous, curved, shorter than the leaves... Jnvolucre three-leav- 
ed. Spikes terminal, globular, squarrose, about as long as 
the involucre. 
Found with S. atropurpureus on poor, wet sandy lands, 
21. S. monostachyos. Kon, “3 
Culms straight, from six to twelve inches long, culumnar, 
Spike terminal, solitary, naked, scales roundish. eed obcor-. 
date, smooth, ip ata 
- Delights in barren, sandy pasture lands, 
Root fibrous, purple-coloured. Cu/ms erect, from six to 
twelve inches high, round, smooth, three-fourths or more na- 
ked. Leaves sheathing, nearly as long as the culm, filiform, 
Spikes terminal, single, naked, oval ; Siete few. Scales sub- 
orbicular. Siyle broad, with dentiena margins, Stigma two- 
cleft. Seed etme vomprensed smooth, light brown. 
22. S. strobilinus. R, 
~ Culms two feet high, three-sided, base leafy. Leaves fib, 
ean Spikes lateral, solitary.-' Seales cordate, idate, 
Sein two-cleft. Seed roundish, beset with. bristles. ie 
A native of the soft, wet banks erent, reine: 
ple, er bok. two ‘feet mre Gracaided. Leaves. two 
or three, of different sizes, embracing the base of each culm, 
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