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no TITUS J AM ATC ENS rs. >tf 



HAM ATA HOOKED. 



Spikes simple, androgynous, linear ; male at top ; females awned, awns hooked 

 at .the tip and equaT Sw. 



Sec Boo-uusii, and, thg following article. 



SEDGES. CYPERUS. 



'Cl. -3, ou. X.-^-Triahdrialmmr/gynic. 1 vat. or Calamaruc. 



Cr.K. CilAU. Sec Adrue, v. I, p. 8. Ten other species are' natives of Jamaica. 

 The first species has a pound tnbn. 

 1. MINIMUS SMALL 



Grcmcn ci/pcroides minimum, spin's plurihis cffmpa'cfis ex oblenge 

 Totundis. ' SI., -v. 1, p. 120, t. 79, f 3. Bratensis minor paniculis 



conglobctis, spicittis comprcssh dislkke hnbricahs. Browne, p. 127, 

 C. 1. 

 {Mm capillarv, spike single ar.d double, involucre one-leafed. 

 Hoots composed of many capillary brown fibres, whence arise mi.ny smalt narrow 

 leaves, ar. inch long and reddish underneath ; stalks many, simple, triangular, from 

 three to four inches high, with two Or three small short leaves towards the top : above 

 these usually three small rusty Scaly spites or heads, two whereof have'short peduncles, 

 . and the ether none ; they are sufficiently distinguished by their smaline-ss. Shane. The 

 smallest grassy cvperns, or sedge, is common in<he lower lands of Jamaica, and sel- 

 dom rises more than nine or ten inches above the ground. Its outward panicles stand 

 -upon- footstalks/ but the middle -one is largest, and fixed to theend of the Stem ; each. 

 "-however, is composed of a number-of small compressed spicillrc that standin a radiated 

 -form. Browne. 



The foilwing have three-sided cubits. 



2. MGNOSTACHVOS. SlNGLK-SPIKtD. 



foramen cyperoid.es minimttm, spica simplici ccnnpccta, red ice tubero* 

 sa oderata. fcloane, v. 1, p. 120, t.-79, f. 2. 

 Culm miked ; spike simple, ovate, terminal, -with 1 mucronstte scales. 

 Hoot leaves numerous, linear,' very narrow, even, leo^e, a span length. Culm fi- 

 liform, weak, -scarcely a foot high. Spike imbricate, compressed a tittle, even,' the 

 sir.e cf a cucumber-seed, with keeled mueronate Scales. A simulate leaflet, sometimes 

 ' two, "underthe spike, and of the samedergth with it. tiinneus. Ibis, according to 

 Swartr,, is rather the lowest .glume, not longer- than half the spike, which-hc describes 

 -,as being imbricate in a double row, with the two -lowest- scales longer than -the others, 

 'linear, awl-shaped, keeled, the ethers broader, the uppermost acuminate ; there are 

 little bristles between the scales near the keel. Germ three-cornered; style three-sided, 

 fetrifid-at the end, stigmas reflex, seed white, cal lose with dots. 'Sloane says this small 

 grass has brown fibres coming from a black tuberous body, covered with a brown mem- 

 brane, white within, and very odoriferous; that the seeds are black and shining. It 

 ryrew in sea-marshes at Delacree pen in Liguanea, 

 WOL.ll. -"X S.' FILIFORM*?. 



