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 CiiperuS. TRIANBEIA monooynia. jg7 



1 i. C. poh/stacJu/os. Linn. Sp. PL ed. Willd. 1 . 275. Rcttb. gram. 

 39. /. U.f. 1. Vuhl. Emm. pi 2. 315. 



Culm Uvelve inches long, /eares short, vmhel compoun.^, sessile 

 crowded. Involucre mauy-leaved. Style two-cieft. Seed^ linear, 

 c!u:ordate, \\i'Lhout angles. 



Gramen cyperoides, &c. Fluch. mant. 97. tab. AlQ.fig. 6. is not 

 unlike this plant. 



A native of moist pasture land, of ditches, Scc. 



Root tibrous. — Culms erect, about a foot high, simple, three-sid- 

 ed, smooth, lower part involved in the sheaths of the leaves.— Leaves 

 shorter than the culm, smooth. — Vmbel terminal, compound, crowd- 

 ed, sessile, about an inch each way. Umbellets sub-sessile, 

 crowded, composed of numerous, sessile, linear-lanceolate spikes. 

 — Involucre from four to six-leaved, unequal, the longest bein*' 

 from six to eight inches long, and the shortest only one. — Slif^ma 

 two-cleft. — Seed compressed, oblong-obcordate. 



15. Cjmnctatus. R. 



Culms from two to six inches high, shorter than the leaves. Umbel 

 compound. Involucres longerfthan the leaves. Seeds oval, com- 

 pressed, dotted. 



Gramen cyperoides elegans, &c. Pluck, t. 192./. 3. 



A small elegant species ; a native of moist pasture ground. 



Root librous. — Culms erect, from two to six inches high, halfnaked, 

 three-sided, smooth. — Leaves sheathing, the lower ciies little more 

 than the sheaths, the superior ones longer than ihe culm. — Umbel 

 terminal, com pound, about an inch each way. Umbellsls some sessile, 

 some peduncled, composed of linear, many-flowered spikes. — Livo- 

 lucre from three to four-leaved, unequal, longer than the culm ; scales 

 daggered. — Seed compressed, obovate, beautifully marked with white 

 dots, on a dark-coloured ground, hence the specific name. 



Obs. In Kbnigs catalogue he called this C. pj/gmccus, but Retz- 

 ius says the culm of that species is round^ whereas in this plant it is 

 three-sided. 



