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TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Scirpus. 



. Single -headed Club-grass. Moist meadows. Marshy places 

 near Throgmorton, Worcestershire. Huds. and Nash. P. July* 



seta'ceus. S. Straw naked, bristle-like : spikes lateral, mostly single, 



sitting or on fruitstalks: terminating spike sitting. 



Fl. dan. 3U -Leers 1. 6-Rottb. 15.5. and ' 6-H. ox. viii. 



10. 23-Park. 1270. 10 and 9* 



Leaves like bristles. Straws naked, numerous ; as thick as 

 the leaves but twice as long. Spike 1 , rarely 2, terminating, 

 egg-shaped. Lowermost Scale awl-shaped, pale, as long as the 

 spike. Linn. Spikes 1 to 4. Seeds naked. St. Plant from 2 

 to 6 inches high. Spikes greenish brown, with a rosy tinge. 



Least Rush. Small Plymouth Rush-grass. Least-Club -grass. 



Wet sandy ground. [Bogs about Woodhouse, and on Charley 

 forest. Pulteney.] A. July, Aug. 



to 



:/ 



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(3) Straw 3 -cornered: spikes in panicles: panicle naked. 



cornered 



CO 



blunt, nearly sitting or on fruit-stalks : sharp point 

 of the straw upright. 



Pink. 40. 2. 



Sides of the straw flat, not hollowed out. Linn. In some 

 specimens the spikes are nearly sitting, in others part of them 

 have fruitstalks of different lengths. In the S. mucronatus the 

 sides of the triangular straw are not flat, but hollowed, and the 

 spikes are always sitting. The height of the pointed top of the 

 straw above the clusters of florets is very different in different 

 specimens of each species, so that nothing can be determined 

 from that circumftance. 



Pointed or o-square Club-rush. Sea shore ; banks of large 



rivers, as of the Thames, both above and below London. 



P. July, Aug. 



(4) Straw 3-cornered: spikes in panicles: panicle leafy- 



sylvat'icus. S. Straw 3 -cornered, leafy: umbel leafy: fruitstalks naked, 



trebly compound: spikes crowded. Linn. Scales 

 entire. St. 



Kniph. 12-C B. th. 90-//. ox. viii. 11. 15-7. B. ii. 504. 



2-jF/. dan. c M)7-Lob. adv. 38. 1-Ger.em. 30. 5~Pari* 

 1171. ^-Branch of the umbel. Leers, 1.4. 

 Calyx entire. St. Leaves very broad, keeled ; with a blunt, 



Coloured projection at the end : the edges and keel rough with 



