

TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Cyperos. 



strong hairs. Seeds girt with 4 or 6 short hairs rising from 

 their base. Leers, 



Millet Cyperus grass. Wood Club-grass. Wet shady places. 



Ditchingham, Norf. Mr. Stone. — Near York. Mr. Aikin. 



[Di 



AH 



little E. of Breakinbridge over the South Esk, on the S. side* 

 Mr. Brown. — About Kendal. Mr. Gough. — Edgbaston Pool, 



plentiful.] 



P. July. 





the spikets 3-cleft, the middle segment awl-shaped. 



Var. 1. Round-rooted C. B. fr. 24. th. 215-Park. 1263. 4~ 

 H. ox. viii. 11. Q-Pauzcle, Scheuch. Q. 9- 



Var. a. Spreading. Curt. 2S4-£. J*/. 542.-G*r. 20. 7-C. 

 J?, th. 86-Ger. em. 22. 7 -Park. 1265. 6. right-hand 



Scheuch. % 7 and 8. 



JF. B. ii. 495. 1. left 

 . 39. 2~Branch of the p 



Var. 3. TtyW. i?/. dan. $$7-Ger. em. 22. J-Park. 1266. 

 6. left-hand plant- J. B. ii. 495. 1. r'ighuh and plants 



Leaves stiff, and sharp at the edges. Little spikes much 

 longer. Linn. Panicle sometimes branched, sometimes simple. 

 Huds. as in the fig. on the left hand in Park, and that on the 

 right in J. B. St. Spikes oblong; colour of rusty iron. Seeds 

 the same colour ; egg-shaped, compressed, tapering to a point : 

 2 or 3 whitish, lopped, chaffy substances, shorter than the style, 

 rise from the base of the germen. In some specimens the Spikes 

 ire sitting, and the Stem-leaves shorter than the Straw; in others 

 they are longer : and in some the Spikes are some sitting, some 

 on fruit-stalks. Scop. 



Salt-marsh Club-grass. Sea-coast. [Salt Marshes near 

 Yarmouth. Mr. Woodward. — Shirley wych, near Stafford. 

 St. — Between Stockton and Porterack, by the river Tees. Mr 



Robson.] 



P. Aug.* 



mius 



CYPE'RUS. Hush chaff-like; tiled in 2 rows : 



BIoss. none: Seed I \ naked. 



( 1 ) Straw cylindrical. 



C. Straw naked: spikes egg-shaped, compressed: into- nigricans 



lucrums 2 -leaved; 1 valve long, awl-shaped. 



Dicks, b. t.-H. ox. viii. 10. 2§-Fruclif. Scheuch. 7. 12. 14. 



* Cows eat it. The roots, dried and ground to powder, have beca 

 used umead of flour in times of scarcity. 



