TRIANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Cyperus. 53 



Purbeck, Dorsetshire, by the Rev. Mr. Lightfoot, according to 

 a specimen in the herbarium of the Rev. Mr. Hasted, Bury. 

 Mr. John Denson. 

 Smaller than R. alba. Leaves narrower, of a more even thickness, 

 not tapering. Glumes of a shining n ddish brow^n. Bristles only 

 3, alternate with the 3 permanent i^^am. Style varying in length. 



24. CYPERUS. Cyperus, or Galingale. 



Lifin. Gen. 29. Juss. 27. FL Br. 47. Tourn. t. 299. /. D— F. 

 Lam. t. 38. Gcertn. t. 2. 



Nat. Orel, see n. 22. 



Sj)i/ce mostly linear, compressed, of numerous Jloixers^ with 

 uniform, keeled glumes, imbricated in 2 opposite ranks, 

 all perfect, except one or two at the bottom. Filam. 2 

 or 3, short. Anth, linear. Germ, roundish, without 

 bristles beneath. Style simple at the base, deciduous. 

 Stigm. 2 or 3. Seed pointed, smooth, loose. 



Root fibrous, or creeping. Stem simple, without joints, 

 round, or mostly triangular, leafy or sheathed about the 

 bottom, as well as at the summit. Spikes terminal, ag- 

 gregate, either capitate or spiked. 



1. C. longus. Sweet Cyperus. English Galingale. 



Stem triangular. Umbel leafy, twice compounded, with 

 naked stalks. Spikes alternate. 



C. longus. Linn. Sp. PL 67. Willd. v. 1 . 285, excl. Rottb. svn. 



Vahl Enum. v. 1. 346. Fl. Br. 47. Engl. Bot. v. 19. t. 1309. 



Jacq. Ic. Ear. t. 297. B.aiiSyn. 425. Ger. Em.30.ff. Schrad. 



Germ. v. 1. 120. 

 C. longus odoratus. Bauh. Theatr. 216. f. Moris, v. 3. 237. sect. 8. 



f. 11./. 13. 

 C. odoratus, radice longa. Scheuchz. Agr. 378. t. S.f. 12. 



In marshes, but very rare. 



By a rivulet between St. David's town and St. David's head. Sir 

 John Cullum, Bart. At Walton in Gordan, Somersetshire. 

 Mr. Dyer. 



Perennial. July. 



Root moderately creeping, highly aromatic, and astringent. Stem 

 2 or 3 feet high, with a very large, leafy, compound, erect um- 

 bel, whose slender triangular stalks are closely sheathed at the 

 base. Spikes shining brown, narrow, erect, 5 or 6 together, 

 loosely spreading in 2 directions. Stigm. 3. 



