m TRIANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Scirpns. 



mediate in nature, between lacustris and triqueter. Spikes ovate, 

 numerous, rusty. Stigm. 2. Seed smooth, with 6 rough bristles 

 beneath. 



#### <$i em triangular. Panicle leafy. 



12. S. maritimus. Salt-marsh Club-rush. 



Stem triangular. Panicle terminal, leafy. Spikes conglo- 

 merate. Glumes torn, with an intermediate point. Stigmas 

 three. 



S. maritimus. Linn. Sp. PL 74. Willd. v. 1. 306. Vahl Enum. 



v. 2. 269. Fl.Br.56. Engl. Bot. v. 8. t. 542. Curt. Lond. 



fasc. 4.t.4. Hook. Scot. 19. Don H. Br. 131. Schrad. Germ. 



v. 1.143. Ehrh. Calam. 12. 

 S. n. 1339. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 178. 



Gramen cyperoides palustre, panicula sparsa. Raii Syn. 425. 

 G. cyperoides, panicula sparsa, majus. Bauh. Theatr. 86. f. 

 G. aquaticum cyperoides vulgatius. Ger. Em. 22. f. 

 Cyperus longus inodorus latifolius, spicis tumidioribus minus 



sparsis. Moris, v. 3. 238. sect. 8. t. 1 1 ./. 25. 

 /3. Scirpus tuberosus. Desfont. Atlant. v. 1. 50. 

 S. maritimus. Fl. Dan. £.937. 

 Cyperus rotundus littoreus. Ger. Em. 31. /. 

 C. rotundus inodorus littoreus. Moris, v. 3.236. sect. 8. f. 11. 



f.9. Raii Syn. 426. 



In salt marshes, and about the banks of great rivers exposed to 

 the tide, frequent. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Root creeping j in jS knotty. Stem I — 3 feet high, striated ; roughish 

 at the angles 3 leafy at the base and summit. Leaves sheathing, 

 keeled, dark-green, rough-edged, taper-pointed. Spikes ovate, 

 soft, partly stalked, solitary or aggregate ; occasionally elongated 

 and cylindrical. Glumes membranous, of a dark uniform brown, 

 often minutely downy 3 the point, or awn, longer than in the 

 neighbouring species. Seed roundish, shining brown, with 3 

 blunt angles, and from 1 to 5 or 6 rough bristles. 



13. S.sylvaticus. Wood Club-rush. Millet Cype- 

 rus-grass. 



Stem triangular, leafy throughout. Panicle terminal, leafy, 

 cymose, repeatedly compound. Flower-stalks sheathed 

 at the base. Spikes aggregate. 



S. sylvaticus. Linn. Sp. PL 75. Willd. v. 1 . 307. Vahl Enum. 

 v. 2. 27 1 . Fl. Br. 57. Engl. Bot. v. 13. t. 9 1 9. Hook. Scot. 19. 

 Fl. Dan. L 307. Schrad. Germ. v. 1 . 145. Leers 10, t. I./. 4. 

 Ehrh. Calam. 131. 



