54 TRIANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Scirpus. 



2. Cfuscus. Brown Cyperus. 



Stem triangular. Umbel compound, with three unequal 



leaves beneath. Spikes crowded, spreading every way. 



Stigmas three. 

 C. fuscus. Linn. Sp. PL 69. WiUd. v, 1. 280. Vahl Enum. v. 2. 



336. Hook. Lond. t. 85. FL Dan. t. 179. Fl. Gmc. v. 1. 34. 



t.AS. Poit. 8,' Turp. Par. t. 75. Schrad. Germ. v.\.\ 18. Leers 9. 



t.\.f.2. E/irh.Calam. III. 

 C. n. 1349. Hall. Hist. i). 2. 181. 



C. minimus, panicula sparsa nigricante, Scheuchz. Agr, 384. 

 C. minor pulcher, panicula compressa nigricante. Moris, v. 3. 239. 



sect.S. t. 11,/. 38. 



In wet meadows, rare, 



Found by Mr. Haworth in a low marshy meadow, half a mile from 

 Little Chelsea. Hooker. 



Annual. Sept. 



Root of many simple fibres. Stems several, about 6 mches high, 

 smooth and pliant. Spikes numerous. Gl. brown, more or less 

 dark, pale at the keel ; the lower ones gradually deciduous with 

 the seed. Stam. but 2 according to Dr. Hooker ; 3 are repre- 

 sented in Fl. Dan. as well as by Leers^ Poiteau, and Bauer. 

 We have seen no living specimens to settle this matter. The 

 seed is triangular, inequilateral, pale, with a simple beak, Will- 

 denow, Vahl, and even Schrader, copy Linnseus's erroneous' 

 reference to Morison, if. 9, for 11 , 



25. SCIRPUS. Club-rush, and Bull-rush. 



Linn. Gen. 30. Juss. 27. FL Br. 48. Br. Pr. 223. Lam. t.SS.f. 2. 

 Gartn. t.2. 



Isolepis. Br. Pr. 221. 



Nat. Ord. see n. 22. 



Sj)ike of numerous Jloi^ers, all perfect. GL imbricated in 

 every direction, expanded, concave, uniform, except 1 or 

 2 occasionally. Cor. none. Filam. flat. Aiith. linear. 

 Style neither jointed nor dilated at the base, deciduous. 

 Stigm. 2 or 3, downy. Seed with or without rough bristles 

 beneath ; often pointed. 



Bog or water plants for the most part, with generally 

 perennial, fibrous, seldom creeping, roots. Stem round or 

 angular, naked, except at the base or summit, without 

 joints. Irrflorescence usually compound, rarely simple. 

 isolepis differs solely in the want of bristles under the 

 germen. 



