CXXXVI. TYPHACEZX. 159 
single carpel, containing a single pendulous ovule, and tapering into a 
simple style, with an adnate unilateral stigma. Fruit a small 1-seeded 
nut, with a membranous or drupaceous pericarp. Seed pendulous, with 
lbu i 
straight, with a superior radicle.— Reed-like marsh or aquatic 
herbs, with long linear parallel-veined leaves, sheathing at the 
ase, 
The Order is limited to the two genera represented in Australia and both of them 
widely distributed over the globe, especially in temperate regions. 
Flowers in cylindrical spikes, the females enveloped in a 
Soft dense copious down formed of numerous long 
capillary ENIMS Oo S Se on pu n l. TypHa. 
Flowers in globular heads, the ovaries surrounded by about 
6 linear scales or perianth-segments . . . . . . . 2. SPARGANIUM. 
l. TYPHA, Linn. 
Spikes cylindrical, the upper male portion contiguous with the 
lower female v s s 
in the 
seal e fem 
, affixed to the stipes, falling off with the fruit and assuming the 
aspect of a pappus at its base. 
The genus consists of ies wi i 
£ very few species widely spread over the temperate regions 
i the globe, especially i rthern hemisphere, and found also within the tropics 
in 
though Specifically distinguished by some botanists, appears to be really 
ii s angustifolia, Linn. ; Kunth, Enum. iii. 9 Stems erect, 
ft. high in some localities, attaining 8 to 12 ft.in West Australia 
: aves often as long as or longer than the 
cording to Oldfield 
small, cbovoid or fusiform, contracted into a stipes, — 
us pericarp free from the seed.—R. Br. Prod. 
JL BO. 
