ScirpuS.^ TRIANDRTA MONOCYNIA. 219 



SECT. II. With Leaves. 



19. S. atropvrpureus. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. i. 294. 

 Grows in small tufts. Cubits from three to four inches 



high, setaceous, erect, culumnar, longer the leaves. Spikes 

 terminal, naked, solitary, oval. 



A native of poor, wet sandy, pasture land. 



20. S. minimus. R. 



Grows in tufts. Culms from one to two inches long, seta- 

 ceous, curved, shorter than the leaves. Involucre three-leav- 

 ed. Spikes terminal, globular, squarrose, about as long as 

 the involucre. 



Found with S. atropvrpureus on poor, wet sandy lands. 



21. S. monostachyos. Kon. 



Culms straight, from six to twelve inches long, culumnar. 

 Spike terminal, solitary, naked, scales roundish. Seed obcor- 

 date, smooth. 



Delights in barren, sandy pasture lands. 



Root fibrous, purple-coloured. Culms erect, from six to 

 twelve inches high, round, smooth, three- fourths or more na- 

 ked. Leaves sheathing, nearly as long as the culm, filiform. 

 Spikes terminal, single, naked, oval ; flowers (exv. Scales sub- 

 orbicular. Style broad, with downy margins. Stigma two- 

 cleft. Seed obcordate, compressed, smooth, light brown. 



22. S. strobi/inus. R. 



Culms two feet high, three-sided, base leafy. Leaves trian- 

 gular. Spikes lateral, solitary. Scales cordate, cuspidate, 

 Stigmas two < left. Seed roundish, beset witb bristles. 



A native of the soft, wet banks of the Ganges. Flowering 

 time the cool season. 



Root stoloniferous with pale coloured fibres. Culms sim- 

 ple, straight, about two feet high, three-sided. Leaves two 

 or three, of different sizes, cm bracing the base of each culm, 



