TYPHACEiE. 317 



MONOCOTYLEDONES. 



TYPHAGE^. 



TYPHA, Tournef. 



656. T. latifolia, L. Common CatstaU. 



Native ; in wet or very damp spots in marshes. Very rare. July. 

 D. III. i\Iarsh by the Tavy, opposite Lophill. Specimens found here in 

 some respects intermediate between latifolia and aiigustifolia. 

 IV. " Some of my botanical coadjutors have found this in Chelson 

 Meadow and near Longbridge ; " Keys, Fl. iii. 246. Extmct ? 

 Some Typhce specimens collected in the neighbourhood present charac- 

 ters more or less intermediate between T. latifolia and T. angusti- 

 folia. One from the Tavy Valley, collected in July, 1876, I sent to Dr. 

 Boswell, for the Botanical Exchange Club, with the note, " I suppose 

 angustifolia, by the narrow leaves, &c., but the larger of the spikes 

 seems m some measure to approach T. latifolia." In the subsequent 

 Report of the Club Dr. Boswell remarked, " This comes very near the T. 

 latifolia, h. media, but it is nearer the genuine latifolia than the Wim- 

 bledon plants mentioned in English Botany, ed. 3." {Rep. 1876, 34.) 



657. T. angustifolia, L. Narrow-leaved Catstail. 



Native ; in muddy and wet places by rivers and ponds. Rare. 

 July, 

 c. I. By the Notter, a little below Stoketon, 1871 ; the male spikes 

 furnished with about three foliaceous bracts. In a damp place 

 in a marsh on the right bank of the Tidy, just below Tideford 

 village. In a large pond in a field by the road from Tideford 

 Cross to Landrake, in plenty : male spikes all furnished Avitli 

 bracts and contiguous to the female ones. Spikes remarkably 

 long. 

 II. Pond at Pentillie. 

 D. III. Marsh by the Tavy, at Lophill : male spikes furnished with sub- 

 foliaceous bracts. 

 I suspect that the male spikes of T. angustifolia are always furnished 

 with bracts, but that their very deciduous character has caused the con- 

 trary to be stated. 

 First record : Briggs, in Jour. Bot., 1867. 



