CYPERACEAE juss. (Eleocharis.) 147 



supernc, marglne aplccquo alhldls, ncrVo mcdlo vlruH, suTi aplco 

 evanesccntc; stylo bifiiio,' achcnio subrotundo-obovato, lcnticu- 

 larl, punctulato, nigro-castanco, nitido, tubcrculo abbrevlato-co- 

 nico tcrininato ; sctis 6 vcl 7, rctrorsxim spinulosls, f crrui^Incis 

 fructum supcrantibus. Scirpus maculosus Vahl. Enum. 2. 247 

 el herh. E. gracilis Nees ah Eseiih. in Sieh. Agros/. n. 115 (spe- 

 cimen a me visum valde incomplehim) et in Linnaea. 9. 294, (iu 

 ulroque e.vchis. syn. Broxvn.^ E. arcuata Kunze iu Poeppig. Coll. 

 Chil. 2. n. 11. (forma humilis.) — Guadalupa, Martlnlca, Brasi- 

 lla, Chili ct ? Nova Ilollandia. — Culmi in speclminibus hcr- 

 barii Vahllani infornc uredlne quadam nlgra obslti (maculati 

 Vahl. !!). Spcclmlna brasillensla humiliora, in i-ellquls slmnia 

 chilensibus. An Eleocharis gracills Sieh. Agrosl. vere in Nova 

 Hollandia lecta? an melius planta martinlccnsls? 



y^ 28. E. PALUST.rJS Brown. Prod. 244 in adn. Roem. et Schult, 

 Stjst. 2. 151. Nees ah Esenh. in Wight. Bol. 113. (Wall. Cat. n* 

 3451) et in Linnaea 7.509. 9. 294. Repcns ; culmis teretiuscu- 

 lis, strlatis, basi vaglnatis ; vagina oblique truncata; spica ob- 

 longo-lanccolata, acutata; squamls ovato-oblongis, acutiusculis, 

 uninerviis, subcarlnatls, fcrrugineo-sanguincis, apice margineque 

 hyalino-albldls, carina viridi, apiccm vcrsus cvancsccntc; stylo 

 l)ifido, complanato ; achenio obovato-pyriforml, turgide biconvexo, 

 obsolcte punctulato, fuscesccnti-luteo, nitidulo, basi styli abbre- 

 viato-subcordata complanata palllda terminato; seiis clrciter 4, 

 albidis, retrorsum spinulosls, achenium superantibus. Scirpus 

 palustris Linn. Spec. 1. 70. Flor. Dan. t. 273. Vahl. Enum. 2. 247 

 et herh. Host. Gram. 3. /. 55. Engl. Bot. t. 131. Poir. et Turp. 

 Paris. t. 59. 61. Schrad. Germ. 1. 127. Mert. et Koch. Germ. 1. 

 425. Torrey, Flor. 1.45. IVilld. herh. n. 1177. (excl. fol. 2et6?} 

 Kcleocharis *) palustrls Lindl. Synops. 280. Reichenh. Germ. 11. 

 Scirpus rcptans Thuill. Flor. Paris. 22. (forma culmis sterilihus 

 recurvis, fide Vahl. herh.) Sclrpus Bacothryon Wohlleh. Suppl. 

 3. (fde Schrad.) Scirpus varlus Schreh. in Schweigg. et Koerte 

 Flor. Erlang. (fid. Mert. et Koch.) Sclrpus acicularis Flor. Dan. 

 t. 167. (fde Schrad.) E. polycaula Wenderoth. Beitr. x. Flor. 

 JlasSi 19. (/ide Schult. Mant. 2. 477.) Scirpus muIticauHs Willd. 

 herh. n. 1176. fol. 2. Sclrpus mclanostachys Urville, Malotiin. 

 29. Fimbristylis melanostachys Brongn. in Duperrey^ It., hot. 181. 

 (fde synon.) Sclrpus uniglumis Link. Jahrh. 3. 77. Ejusd. Ilort. 

 1. 281. Mert. et Koch. Germ. 1. 426. Willd. herh. n. 1160. E. 

 unlglumls Schult. Mant. 2. 88. Hclcocharis uniglumis Beichenh. 

 Germ. 11. Scirpus intcrmcdlus Thuitl. Paris. 21. (nec Poir.) 

 Sclrpus tenuis Schreh in Schweigg. et Koerle Flor. Erlang. 12 

 et 159. (test, Mert. et Koch.) Scirpus multicaulls Bolanic. ger- 

 man. plur. — Europa, Sibiria, Dahuria, Caucasus, Mare Caspium, 

 Ncpalia, Insulac Sandwicenses (Ovvahu), Cap. b. spei, America 



Nomeii antiquiori Eleocharidis certe praeferenduni. 



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