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TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Cyperus. 



Leaves numerous, bristle-like, forming a thick tuft compo- 

 sed of small bundles, each bundle covered with many broad 

 scales of a blackish brown colour. Gen. Inwolucr. 2 valves, 

 notched at the end, with a sharp point in the middle. A<wn of 

 the outer Valve much longer than the whole head, and dark 

 brown at the end, Linn Scales 2-rowcd, Spikestalk bent 

 alternately backwards and forwards. Seeds roundish, approach- 

 ing to 3-square, of a pearly lustre. Hall. Each seed lies 

 within the corresponding curvature of the spikestalk. St. 



Rorttd black-headed Bogrush, or Rushgrass. Schcenus nigri- 

 cans. Linn. — Bogs ; marshes, [Bogs in Norfolk. Mr. Pitch- 

 ford.— About Darlington, but not common, Mr. Robson.J 



P. June. 



acicula'ris. C. Straw cylindrical, naked, bristle- shaped : spike egg- 



shaped^ 2-valved: seeds naked. 



E. bet. 7±S-Fl. dan. 2SJ-H. ox. viii. 10, row 3, SJ-PIofs 

 ox/, t. Q./. 3-Pluk. 40. 7. 



Forms a fine close green turf. Straw from 1 to 6 inches 

 high. St. Straw and leaves as fine as a horse hair; the former 

 is not ^cornered, as Hudson said, but though cylindrical it is 

 often compressed and fluted. As the spike is more properly 

 5? -rowed, than tiled on every side, as Haller observed, it ought> 

 as Retzius suggests, to be considered as a Cyperus ; and the ab- 

 sence of hairs or bristles at the base of the seed adds confirma- 

 tion to this opinion. 



Scirfus acicularis. Linn. Huns. LlCHTF. — E. hot. — Little or 

 least upright Clubrush. Slender Clubrush. Watery heaths, 



marshes and bogs, [Malvern Chace, Wore. St.] P. Aug. 



(2) Straw 3-*- cornered-, leaf if. 

 lon'gus. C Umbel leafy^ more than doubly compound : fruitstalks 





naked 



Jacq.pl. rar. 29J-H. ox. viii. 11. lZ-Fuchs. 4,53-Trag. 



015 } (improperly referred by C. B. to his C. rot. <vulg>) 

 J. B. ii. 501. 1-Math. 26, left halfoftbefg.-Ger. 2S. 

 1-ZW. 338. 2~Lob. ebs. 40. l-Ger. em. 30. 1-Parl* 

 146. 3 fdescr. n. 4 J C. B. th. 2l6-Black<w. 3l6~ 

 Branch of a panicle, Scheuch. 8. 12. 



Fruit -stalks sometimes to the amount of 12 or 13, forming 

 a sort of umbel, the outer spokes of which are gradually shorter 

 and shorter* Little spikes slender, chesnut coloured. Scop. 



