EXPLANATIOX OF PLATE III. 



ELEOCHARIS. — (1) Small plant of E. olivacea; (2) the spikelet enlarged ; 

 (3) detached scale; (4) Hower; (5) achene and bristles. — (6) E. quad- 

 raugulata, spikelet; (7) a scale; (8) flower; (9) achene and bristles. — 

 (10) E. tuberculosa; the achene with its great tubercle, and bristles. 



SCIRPUS.— (1) Summit of plant of small S. debilis; (2) a spikelet; (3) a 

 scale of the same, and (4) flower ; (5) achene with its bristles. 



ERIOPHORUM. — (1) Small plant of E. alpinum, in flower; (2) spikelet; 

 (3) a scale, and (4) a flower from the same; (5) the spikelet, in fruit, the 

 bristles forming a cottony tuft ; (6) achene and its bristles. — (G, under 

 Sciy^pus) a small portion of the inflorescence of E. cyperinum ; (7) a 

 flower; (8) a spikelet in fruit; (9) achene from the same, Avitli the tor- 

 tuous bristles; (10) section of the achene. 



FIMBRISTYLIS. — (1) Summit of a small flowering stem of F. laxa; (2) a 

 spikelet of the same ; (3) a detached scale, and (4) a flower of the same; 

 (5) achene. — F. autumnalis ; (6), a spikelet, enlarged; (7) flower; 

 (8) achene, and (9) section of the same. 



