Scirpus, TRIANDRIA MONOGYNTA, 229° 
cels small, bristlelike. Spikes minute, globular, many- 
flowered. Stamens, from one to two, rarely three. Stigma 
two or three-cleft, Seed nearly oo es on the’ 
inside, scabrous, white. 
42.8. quinguangularis: Vahl, enum. ii. 279, 
Culms from one to two feet high, five-angled. Umbel 
super-decompound ; invoduere much shorter than the umbel ; 
scales oval, monandrous, Seed three-sided, rugose, 
A native of similar places with the last species. ae 
- Root fibrous. Culms as in complanatus, and tetragonus, 
and of the same height, but in this species always five-sided, 
The, angles sharp and the sides concave, Leaves as in'S. 
complanatus, Umbel super-decompound, rather thin, and 
unequal as in Se, tetragonus, . Involuere three-leaved, the: 
largest about the length of the umbel.. Spikes méstly pedi- 
celled, oval, very small, few, from: six to eight-flowered. 
Scales oval. Stamen one. pars thrée-eleft. shied ft 
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~ Culms from six to ten ice high Btn: Umbel su-~ 
pebdlocinaiennd; ‘rather shorter than the involucre, monan- 
drous. Scales obtuse. Seed —— without poh ee oe 
ed, and wrinkled. , | Mg 
»'A-native of low pasture ground. 
Root fibrous. Culms: nearly erect, from six to ten ial 
‘ high, mostly naked, nearly round and. striated, ~ Leaves 
sheathing, as long as the culm, concave ; edges slightly ae serra 
late, somewhat woolly. Umbel teiveaiatile super-dec a 
large in proportion to the rest of the plant. - satin eg 
 teaved, nearly erect, opposite margins slightly serrulate, long- 
er than the umbel, a few small seales intermixed, Spikes 
very i . Scales oval, concave. Stamens solitary. Style 
two-cleft.: ‘Seed obcordate, a little compressed, striated aad 
tudinally, and wrinkled transversely. 
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