DIANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Cladium. 33 



In dry meadows, andabout hedges, very uncommon. 



Near Cobham in Kent. Mr. Jacob Rayer. 



Perennial. July. 



Three feet high, erect, not very aromatic. Lower leaves on long- 

 stalks, deep green. Fl. in numerous whorls, large and hand- 

 some, of a fine purplish blue, with ovate, acute, entire bracteas. 



2. S. verbenaca. Wild English Clary. 



Leaves serrated, sinuated, smoothish. Corolla much more 



contracted than the calyx. 

 S. verbenaca. Linn. Sp. PL 35. Willd. v. 1. 137. Vahl Enum. 



v. 1.255. Fl. Br. 31. Engl. Bot. v. 3. t. 154. Curt. Lond: 



fasc. 6. t. 1. Hook. Scot. 10. 

 Horminum sylvestre, lavandulse flore. Rail Syn. 237. 

 H. sylvestre. Ger. Em. 77\.f. 



In meadows, pastures and waste ground, by way sides, on a gra- 

 velly or chalky soil, not uncommon. Rare in Scotland and the. 

 north of England. 



Perennial. June — October. 



A foot or 18 inches high, more or less decumbent, aromatic. Leaves 

 greyish green, the radical ones stalked, depressed, doubly cre- 

 nate. Fl. small, violet blue. Bracteas as long as the calyx. 

 Seeds black, smooth j covered, when laid in water, with a fine 

 dense mucilage ; hence they serve to envelop and remove any 

 injurious body from under the eyelids. 



15. CLADIUM. Twig-rush. 



Browne Jam. 1 14. Brown Pr. 236. Hook. Scot. 3. 



Nat. Ord. Calamarice. Linn. 3. Cyperoidece. Juss. 9. 

 Cyperacea. DeCand. 134. Br. Pr. 212. 



Spikes imbricated in every direction, with sheathing, con- 

 cave, chaffy glumes, mostly empty, one or two of the up- 

 permost only being perfect and single-flowered. Cor. 

 none. Stam. linear, longer than their glume, (in some 

 foreign species said to be more than 2.) Anth. linear, 

 erect. Germ, superior, ovate, without any bristles or 

 scales at the base. Style capillary, the length of the sta- 

 mens, deciduous, but without a joint at the bottom. 

 Stigm. 2, 3, or 4, slender, acute, downy. Drupa ovate, 

 polished, brittle, of 1 cell. Nut bony, ovate, acute. 



A genus of hard, harsh, rushy, often prickly-edged plants, 

 whose stems, whether round or triangular, are more or 

 less clothed with alternate sheathing leaves, or scales. 

 Spikes numerous, brown, or blackish, aggregate, gene- 

 rally panicled. 



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