TRIANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Scirpus. 57 



267. Fl. Br.t)2. Engl. Bot. v. 10. t. 66Q. Hook. Lond. ^ 91. 

 Scot. 18. Br. Pr. 223. Ehrh. Calam. 112. Fl. Dan. t. 1142. 



S. palustris altissimus. Baii Syn. 428. Scheuchz. Agr. 354. 



Juncus maximus, seu Scirpus. Bauh. Theatr. \7S.f. 



In clear ditches, ponds, and the borders of lakes and rivers. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Root thick, creeping. Stems 4 — 6 feet high, soft, spongy, smooth, 

 used for thatching, and especially for platted chair-bottoms. 

 Leaves at the base 1 or 2, short, with long sheaths. Panicle 

 various in luxuriance, or number of spikes, which are brown, 

 soft, half an inch long, with fringed, pointed glumes. Stam. 3, 

 flat. Stigm. 3, rarely but 2. Seed obovate, flat at one side, 

 keeled at tlie other, having 6 rough bristles at the base, and 

 ending in a very small brown point. 



5. S. glaucus. Glaucous Club-rush. 



Stem roiindj naked, glaucous. Panicle cymose, not higher 



than the bractea. Spikes ovate, conglomerate. Stigmas 



two. 



S. glaucus. Comp. 10. Engl. Bot. v. 33. t. 2321. 



S. lacustris (3. Fl. Br. 52. Huds. 19. Hook. Scot. 18. 



5. palustris humilior. Scheuchz. Agr. 356. 



Juncus sive Scirpus medius. Rail Syn. 428. Bauh. Theatr. 181./. 



In salt-marshes, and salt-water ditches, not uncommon. 



On the west of Ardbigland, Galloway, Scotland. Mr. J. Mackay. 



Shoreham, Sussex j and Cley, Norfolk. Mr. Borrer. 

 Perennial. August. 

 Two feet high, of a glaucous hue. Pan. less compound. Spikes 



more crowded, darker, with broader glumes dotted with purple. 



Stig7n. never more than 2. A very distinct species. 



6. S. HoloschcBnus . Round-cluster-headed Club- 

 rush. 



Stem round, naked. Spikes numerous, in globular, sessile 

 or stalked, heads. Bracteas two, unequal, leafy. Leaves 

 channelled. Seed without bristles. 



S. Holoschoenus. Linn. Sp. PL 72. Willd. i\\. 297. Vahl Enum. 



v.2.264. Fl.Br.53. Engl. Bot. v. 23. t. \6\2. Fl. Dan. t. 454, 



bad. Dicks. Dr. PL 2. Schrad. Germ. v. 1. 135. 

 S. maritimus, capitulis rotundioribus glomeratis. Raii Syn. 429. 

 Scirpoides maritimum, capitulis sparsis glomeratis. Scheuchz. Agr. 



371. t.8.f.2—5. 

 Juncus maritimus capitulis rotundis. Moris, v. 3. 232. sect. 8. t. 10. 



/ 1 7. Pluk. Phyt. L 40. f. 4. ReL Rudb. 22. f. 1, and 25. f. 3. 



Bauh. Theatr. 174./. 

 Holoschoenus. Dalech. Hist. 987. f. 



