ISO TRIVXDRIV MOXOGYXFA. Kyll'mr/ia. 



FUIREXA. Schreb.gen. X. 90. 



Anient imbricated on all sides frith tailed scales. Corol 

 three-petalled. Seed naked. 



1. F. ci Hurts. R. 



Culms erect, about twelve inches, columnar, jointed, leafy. 

 Leaves hairy. Heads axillary and terminal. Scales very 

 hairy. Stir/ mas three. Seeds three-sided. 



Seirpus ci/iaris. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. 1. 309. Rottb. 

 gram. 5. t. 17./'. 1. 



Telinrj. Elagabora gaddt. 



A native of moist places on the coast of Coromandel, with 

 the Scirpi. ice. 



Root fibrous. Culms nearly erect, about a foot high, round, 

 striated, leafy, jointed, but not piped. Leaves sheathing-, short- 

 er than the culms, hairy, eiliated on the margin, concave on 

 the inside, not keeled. Heads sob-globular, compound, axil- 

 lary, and terminal, the terminal one is considerably longer, 

 they are composed of several oval, imbricated, many-flower- 

 ed, sessile spikes. Lnvoluere of the terminal head one or at 

 most two small leaves; of the others, nothing more than the 

 sheath of the leaf from whence they issue. Scales of the aments, 

 or spikes, corol. ice. as in jhe genua 



KYLLIXGIA. Schreb. gen. X. 9. 

 Ament imbricated. Flowers with calyx and corol of two 

 cbafVv valves each. Seed one. 



1. K. monocephala. Linn. sp. pi. fd. Willd. 1. 256. Vahl. 

 in pi. -2. 379. 



Rottb. oram. 13. t. A.f. 4. 



Cuims >ix to eighteen inches high, triangular ; head termi- 

 nal. single ; involucres three or four. Seeds obcordate, with- 

 out ano les. 



