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Receptaculum Commune. Oblongum, Jquamis numerofi. 





Corolla 



Nulla 



Stam 



longis injlrucla. 



Jiores fmgula 



ollig 



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nguftis objitum, quod 

 Jpicam JlriBam eb- 



tria vel p 



longa tcnuia 



henis 



Nectaria. Filament a quinque vel 



injra bafem ge?ninis et 

 Piftillum. Germen oblongum bre 



Jiilo b? 



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ugofa ereSla 



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oblonga decedentiq, ultra Jquam as porrecJa 



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Jiilo conico bifido injlruftum ; Jligmata 



Pericarpium. 1 Nullum; femina/c/ 



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SCIRPUS 





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rotundu 



biculata compre/It 

 paniculd terminah 







Jpicillis 



Junci 

 Scirp 



pedunculis tenuioribus & higioribus incidentibus 



iprejfn 



Levis, &c. Slo. Cat. ^j 



Lacujlris AltiJJi* 



Tournef. & L. fl 



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The flat-panicled BullrufK. 



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This plant is very like the common Bullrum ; I have met with it in the moun- 

 tains of St. Marys, where it grew extreamly well, but was probably planted there. 

 The foil in which I obferved it was rich, and beftrewed with' a(hes about the root. 



3CIRPUS 6. Major rotundus, paniculd terminali Jpicillis ovatis twnentibus 



pedunculis comprejjis. 

 Scirpus n Culmo (ereti nudo, Jpicis ovatis plurimis peduncuhtis terminalibus. 



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The Bullrufli with oval Panicles* * 1 





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This pi 



common about the ferry, and grows every where in the banks of 



river; it is very like the foregoing in appearance, but eafily diftinguifhed 



from it by the oval and roundifti form of the Spicillae, or lelTer 

 nicle, which, in that, are long, narrow, and compreiled. 



parts of the Pa 





CYPERUS 



Pratenfis minor paniculis conghbatis, Jpicillis comprejfu 





diftiche imbricali 



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Gramen Cyperoides Jpicis compqffis Jubrotundis. Slo. Cat. & H. t. 79 

 Gramen Cyperoides pumilum, &c. Pk. Phy. t. iok, f.8,Sc 192, f. 2. 



"' : " The imalleft Grafiy Cy perns or Sedge. J C[ '- ' -' 



This plant is common in the lower lands of "Jamaica, and feldom rifes more than 

 nine <pr ten inches above the ground. Its outward panicles ftand upon foot-ftalks, 

 but the middle one is largeft, and iixecj to the end of the ,ftem ; each however is 

 compofed of a number of fmall compreiTed Spirillar that $and in a radiated form. 





CYPERUS 



2. 



JAinimus pratenfis 



volucri ternis. 



jlrifto fingulariy foliis in- 



The fmall Cyperus with a ilngle Head 



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This little plant is fometimes found in the lower lands, and feldom rifes above 

 three or four inches from the root 5 the flaik is fimple, triangular, vaginated at the 

 bottom, and furnifhed with three leaves above j the flowers appear in this manner. 



Periantium. Gluma bivaivis brevis unijlora perji/lens, wahis oblongis paten- 







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tibus, 



Corolla 



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