MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA. Sparganium. 73 



originating from former impregnation. The fertile catkins of 

 T. angiistXfolia sometimes split longitudinally in growing. See 

 Engl. Bot. 



3. T. minor. Dwarf Cat's-tail or Reed-mace. 



Leaves linear, convex beneath. Catkins a little distant; 

 barren one leafy ; fertile short and turgid ; often inter- 

 rupted. Anthers nearly solitary. Receptacle naked. 



T. minor. Fl. Br. 960. Engl. Bot. v.2\.t. 1457. Willd. Sp. PL 

 V. 4. 197. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 540./. Dalech. Hist. 995./. Lob. 

 7c. 81./. 



T. minima, mild. Sp. PL v. 4. 1 97. 



T. angustifolia /3. Linn. Sp. PL 1378. Huds. 400. 



T. n. 1306 /3. HalL HisL v. 2. 1 63. 



T. palustris minor. Bauh, Pin. 20. Theatr. 341. f. Dill, in Raii 

 Sijn. 436. 



T. minima^ duplici clava. Moris, v. 3. 246. sect. 8. t. 13./. 3. 



In marshes, but rare. 



Found by Mr. Dandridge on Hounslow Heath. Dillenius. 



Perennial. July. 



Much smaller than either of the preceding. Stem very slender, 

 about a foot, or foot and half, high. Leaves about a line in 

 breadth ; channelled above ; convex beneath ; as tall as the 

 stem ; pale and blunt at the point, being rather more tumid in 

 that part than the other species. They are accompanied by nu- 

 merous broad sheathing scales, the innermost of which are halt 

 as tall as the stems, and have been taken for leaves. Willdenow 

 not having seen a remark to this effect in Engl. Bot. has been 

 led to make two species out of one. The barren catkin often 

 bears a membranous leaf, or scale, at the base, or at the sum- 

 mit. The anthers are short and thick, mostly solitary on each 

 filament. Recept. apparently naked. Fert. catkin short and 

 thick, becoming tumid, and oval, as it ripens, frequently inter- 

 rupted about the middle ; its upper half is sometimes conti- 

 nuous with the barren catkin. Seed with numerous bristles at 

 the base of its stalk. 1 have seen no English specimen of this 

 very distinct species ; but the older writers could not possibly 

 mistake it, nor would Linnaeus, had he ever examined the plants, 

 have confounded it with the last. 



426. SPARGANIUM. Bur-reed. 



Linn. Gen.4S0. Juss. 26. FL Br. 961. Toicrn. t. 302. Lam. t. 748, 



Gcerin. t.\0. 

 Nat. Ord. see n. 425. 

 Barr.Jl- numerous, aggregate, in one, or more, dense, su- 



