REED-MACE 



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style hein^- simple and sti.i;matic \cntrally. The female flowers are 

 hn)\vn, contain i carpel and a pendulous ovule, with the micropyle 

 toward the base. The stigma ripens first. 



The small fruits, achenes, shortly stalked on a thread-like stalk. 



Kkkd-macf. (Typha lalifulia, L. ) 



are fringed with hairs from the persistent perianth, and thus dispersed 

 by the wind. 



The Reed-mace is a peat-loving plant, growing in a peat soil, and 

 usually aquatic or submerged, rooting along the margins of ponds. 



The Reed-mace fungus, Epichlo'c typhina, is frequentl)- to be found 

 on it. Several beetles, Stilbns ob/oiiQits, 'rclcniatophilus sparganii, 

 T. caricis, T. typlice, T. sckonnei-i, T. brci'icollis, Donacia vulgaris. 



