60 TRIANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Scirpus. 



longish bristles beneath, and beaked with an unusually long 

 portion of the style, nearly the whole of it, though the stigmas 

 are deciduous. 



9. S. rufas. Brown Club-rush. 



Stem round, leafy at the bottom. Spikes aggregate, two- 

 ranked, few-flowered. Leaves channelled, smooth, with- 

 out a keel. Seed without bristles. 



S. rufus. Schrad. Germ. v. 1. 133. t. I./.3. Fl. Dan. t. 1504. 

 Schoetaus rufus. Huds. 15. Fl. Br. 45. Engl. Dot. v. 15. MO 10. 



Vahl Enum. v. 2. 215. Hook. Scot. 17. Dicks. 11. Sice. fasc. 10. 6. 



Don. H.Brit. b2. 

 S. compressi varietas. Light/. 1 138. t. 24./. 2. 



In marshes towards the sea coast, in many parts of Scotland, as 

 well as in Mull, Skye, Arran, &c. 



On the western coast of Ireland. Dr. Wade. Near the bridge 

 between Bootle and Crosby rabbit-warren, between Liverpool 

 and Ince. Mr. John Shepherd. In Anglesea. Rev. H. Davies. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root creeping, with downy fibres. Stems 4 to 6 inches high, round, 

 quite smooth and even. Leaves 2, smooth throughout, semi- 

 cylindrical, channelled, but not keeled, generally much shorter 

 than the stem, which they embrace at the bottom with their 

 sheaths. Compound spike ovate, flat, imperfectly 2-ranked, of a 

 dark rusty brown. Bractea often very short} sometimes nearly 

 equal to the whole spike, and leafy ; often entirely wanting. 

 Flowers 2, 3 or 4. Glumes turgid, even and polished j the 

 outermost large, empty, as long as the partial spike to which it 

 belongs. Stigm. 2. Seed ovate, smooth, pointed at each end, 

 flat on one side, tumid on the other, tipped with a short jagged 

 beak left by the style, and certainly without any bristles at the 

 base. This last character, faithfully expressed in Engl. Bot., 

 effectually distinguishes this species from the last -, and at the 

 same time proves the unimportance of these bristles for a generic 

 character, the two species in question being so nearly allied, that 

 good botanists have hardly been able to discriminate them. 



#*# Stem triangular. Panicle naked. 



10. S. triqueter. Triangular Club-rush. 



Stem acutely triangular, straight, naked, sharp-pointed. 

 Spikes lateral ; sessile or stalked. Stigmas two. Seed 

 smooth. 



S. triqueter. Linn. Mant. 1 . 29. Willd. v. 1. 302. Vahl Enum. 



v. 2. 270. Fl. Br. 55. Engl. Bot. v. 24.t.\ 694. Hook. Lond. 



t. 92. Schrad. Germ. v. 1. 140. Fl. Dan. t. 1563. 

 S. n.1338. Hall Hist. v. 2.17/. 



