80 TRIANDRIA. M0N0GYNIA. Schcemra. 



fiis'cus. S. Straw leafy: leaves thread-shaped, channelled: spikes 



in pairs, plump. 



... 



H. ox. vuu 11. 40. 



Very much resembling the Sch. albus y in height, size, ap- 

 pearance, and place of growth, but still, a different species? 

 distinguishable by its little spikes being brown, growing in 

 clustered heads, and not white and flat topped as in Sch. alius. 

 It flowers also earlier. Linn. Panicle sometimes blackish. 

 Straw not so tall, 3-cornered, but the angles blunt. Leaves 

 marked with brown spots ; 2 or 3 inches long, and somewhat 

 more than half aline broad. Pollich. 



Schcenus alius (fusctts.) Huds. who with Haller regards it 

 only as a variety of the alb us. 



Brown Rushgrass. Turfy bogs. [Brigstean Moss, and other 

 mosses about Kendal. Mr. Gough.] P. June, 



cornpressus. S. Straw roundish, but tending to 3-cornered; naked: 



spikets in 2 opposite rows, Involucrum 1 leaf: 

 florets with 1 husk* 



Dicks, h. s-E. hot. 79^-Leers 1. \-Rollich. 1. 2-P/a£. 34. 



9-Mich. 31. Cyperella. K.-Schevch. II. 6. 



Straws round, and somewhat flattened ; below the spike 3# 

 square and rough. Iwvolucr. scarcely longer than the spike. 

 Little spikes alternate. Scales fixed without any order to the re- 

 ceptacle. Summits 2. Seed surrounded with 6 rough bristles. 

 Leers. Involucr. either half as long, equally long, or twice as 

 s long as the spike. Its 2-rowed spike would almost induce one to 



refer it to the genus Cyperus, did not a more accurate examina- 

 tion support its present arang£ment. 



Sch. compressus. Linn. — Carex uliginosus. Linn. — Com • 



pressed Rushgrass. Turf bogs. [Near Ditchingham- Bath, Nor- 



folk, Mr* Woodward.] P # July. 



.Ju'fus. S. Straw nearly 3-cornered, leafy: spike nearly egg- 

 shaped : spikets 1 -flowered : involucrum 1 leaf. 



Huds. 



Dicks, h. s.-Lightf.f. 24> 2. 



Root perennial, branched, horizontal, creeping. Straws 

 many, () inches high, upright, a little 3-cornered, undivided; 

 leafy at the base. Root-leaves slender, acute, naked, a little 

 channelled, almost as long as the straw. Stem-leaves 2, on leaf- 

 stalks, slender, sharp, about 3 inches long. Leaf-stalk sheathed, 

 cylindrical, scored, smooth. Spike terminating, nearly egg- 



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