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Scirpus. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, — Se 
~ Culms many, uncommonly slender, erect; about. a’ foot 
high, toward the base invested with the sheaths.of afew 
slender leaves. Umbel very thin, composed of one sessile, ob-| 
long spike, and of from six to twelve or about half the num- 
ber of pedicells of various lengths. Jnvolueres minute, the 
lougest scarcely exceeding the sessile spike. Scales boat- 
shaped, scariose, with a short points Style swelled:at the 
base to the full size of the germ; this swelled part, however, . 
is not more permanent than the rest of the style. Stigma 
trifid. Seed obovate, igbacurel y three-sided; much dotted, 
penttaviolam 
84. S. pridéntatus: R 
Culms straight, from two to five feet high, angular. Umbet 
compound ; involucres from two to three; spikelets pointed ; 
scales lapped, jagged and pc BE Seed ee: 
angled, and bristly. ‘a 
“Compare with S, maritimusse 0 9 
Teling. Goorapa-shaka-tinga, . lity Nenoutrred 1 
Grows in water courses, cade Ries on esa Mate) is 
fresh ; never in salt, or brackish water. 
Root stoloniferous with some small tubers, and many Pn 
i Culms erect; rigid, leafy, jointed, from two to five feet high, 
three-sided; smooth, angles sharp. Leaves numerous, sheath- 
ing, sub-erect, rigid, keeled, smooth. Umbel compound, small. 
for the size of the plant. Jnvolucre from two-to, three-leaved, 
erect, unequal, the longest being three times the length of the, * 
_ umbel, and the shortest equalling the latter: Spikes lanceo~ 
late or cylindric, large ; some sessile, some peduneled, Seales, 
_ three-toothed, the Jateral ones torn, the middle long ; A> . 
7 bulate, ikeek green, tho rtet:réet-colonntd of Seed three-sided, — 
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