

TRTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Scirpus. 75 



£. h%U 666-FL dan. 1142-if. ox. viii. 10* l-Ger. 31,3- 

 C. B> th. 178-7. B. ii. 522. 2-ZW. 605* 1-G*r. ^ 

 35, 3-Park. lipi. 1-kw/, %. 6? 4, 1. 



Var. 2* Involucrum nearly the length of the panicle: Spikes 

 egg-shaped. Huds. 



G^r. 31. 4-C. 5. th. 181. 



Spikes dark chesnut, or dark brown with a tinge of red. 

 Scheuch. Calyx dark brownish purple above ; below whitish 

 with purple spots. St. 



Var. 3. One side of the straw flattish. Huds. 



H. ox. viii. 10. 2. 



Scales of the spikes cloven, and a little pointed subftance at 

 the bottom of the cleft. Germen with 5 or 6 hairs at the base. 

 Seeds brown. Scop. Spikes chesnut-colour. 



Bull-rush. Club-grass. Rivers; pools; fens; common. 



P. July, Aug.* 





S. Straw cylindrical, naked: spikes nearly globular, close- Holoschoe' 



Iy compacted ; on fruit-stalks; involucrum 2-leaved, nus. 

 . unequal, sharp pointed. 



//. ox. viii. 10. Vl^Mich. 31. (Scirpoides)-Scheuch. 8. 2-5- 





Pluk. 40. 4-C. J?. 174r-Part. 11JJ4. 4 (not 



454.J 



The 



rge peas, supported on fruit, 

 de of the stem, distinguish 



stalks ot various lengths from the j 



this at first sight from every other species. 



Round-headed Club -grass. Sea coast. [Brount on Boroughs, 

 Devonshire. Dr. Goodenouch.] P. July. 



S. Straw cylindrical, naked: head lateral, compact: floral roma'nus. 



leaf bent back, 



J acq. austr. 448- Barr. 255. 3-Head; Scheuch. 8. 6-PIuek. 

 40. 5. 



* Straws the thickness of a thread ; those of the S. Holoschaenus 

 as thick as the S. lacustris 9 and sharp pointed. Link. Frequently 

 many headed. Scales egg-shaped, sharp, concave. Jacq. 



1 

 I 



* When fodder is exhausted, Cattle will live upon it. Cottages are 

 sometimes thatched, and pack-saddles stuffed with it. Bottoms ot chairs 

 are very commonly made of this rush. If cut at one year old it makes the 

 fine bottoms. Coarse bottoms are made of it at two years old ; and such 

 as are still older, mixed with the leaves of the Iris pseud-acorus, make 

 the coarsest bottoms of all. Mats are likewise made, either of the Seirp. 



Jaucustris alone, or mixed with the aforesaid leaves,— Goats and swine 

 eat it.— Cows and sheep refuse it. 



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