14 JUNCAGINACEA?—ARROW-GRASS TRIBE 
Order XCIV. JUNCAGINACEA—ARROW-GRASS TRIBE. 
Flowers perfect ; perianth green and small, or none; stamens 6; ovaries 
3—6, superior, united, or distinct ; carpels 3—6, 1—2-seeded. This is a 
small order of marsh plants, possessing no remarkable properties. 
1. Arrow-GRrass (7Z7riglichin).—Perianth of 3 outer and 3 inner erect 
leaves ; stamens 6; flowers arranged in a spike, without bracts. Name from 
the Greek ¢reis, three, and glochin, a point, from the three points of the 
capsule. 
2. SCHEUCHZERIA.—Perianth of 6 reflexed leaves; flowers in racemes, 
with bracts ; stamens 6; stigmas sessile; capsules 2-valved, 1—2-seeded. 
Named in honour of the Scheuchzers, Swiss botanists. 
1. ARRow-GRASS (7'riglochin). 
1. Marsh Arrow-grass (7. palistre).—Leaves linear, channelled, and 
succulent, all from the root, smooth, and nearly erect; capsule 3-celled, 
narrow ; root fibrous. This is a perennial plant, abundant by the sides of 
rivers and on marshy lands, and might, during June and July, at the first 
glance be mistaken for the seaside plantain, though its flowers are much 
fewer, and more scattered over the upper part of the stalk. They are green, 
sometimes tinged with red. The succulent leaves are membranous, and 
sheathing at the base. Cattle are very fond of this plant. 
2. Sea Arrow-grass (7. maritimum).—Leaves semi-cylindrical, all from 
the root; capsule egg-shaped, 6-celled. This species is much like the last, 
but is a taller and stouter plant, and well distinguished by its rounded capsule, 
and paler green hue. It has a saline flavour, and its greenish-yellow flowers 
expand from May to September. Both species are quite innocuous, but they 
afford little nutriment. Goldfinches may be seen sometimes pecking very 
busily at their young buds. The genus was formerly called Juncago, because 
the plants, like the rushes, grow in bogs and wet situations. The French 
call our plant Z’roscart ; the Germans Salzgras. 
2. SCHEUCHZERIA (Scheuchzéri). 
Marsh Scheuchzeria (S. palistris)—Stem erect, unbranched ; leaves 
alternate, blunt, semi-cylindrical ; perennial. This plant is, by its slender 
semi-cylindrical leaves, very nearly allied to the rushes. It bears, in July, a 
raceme of yellowish-green flowers, with large bracts, on a wavy stalk, about 
six inches high. It is very rare, growing among the bog-mosses in some 
tracts of Yorkshire, Cheshire, Nottingham, near Shrewsbury, and at Methven, 
near Perth. 
Order XCV. TYPHACEA‘—REED-MACE TRIBE. 
Stamens and pistils in separate flowers on the same plant; flowers in 
dense spikes or heads, not enclosed in a sheath, the heads of male flowers 
above ; perianth composed of 3 scales, or a tuft of hairs; stamens 3—6, 
distinct, or united by their filaments ; anthers long, and wedge-shaped ; ovary 
single, superior, l-celled ; style short ; stigma linear, lateral; fruit 1-celled, 
