iD, ENGLISH BOTANY. 
produced beyond the cells; pollen-grains globose. Female flowers 
without a perianth, intermingled with subclavate hairs or surrounded 
by 3 hypogynous scales: ovaries free or sometimes united in pairs, 
sessile or stipitate, 1-celled and l-ovuled; ovule pendulous from the 
apex of the cell, anatropous; style simple; stigma unilateral, ligu- 
late. Fruit subdrupaceous, membranous or spongy on the outside; the 
inner layer woody or coriaceous, and adhering to the seed. Seed with 
a very slender membranous testa; albumen abundant and fleshy; 
embryo straight, axial; radicle directed towards the hilum. 
GENUS IT—TY PHA, Tournef. 
Flowers monecious, the male and female flowers in 2 separate spikes 
one above the other, contiguous or slightly separated; the male spike at 
the apex, frequently with large deciduous bracts intermingled with the 
flowers. Male flowers very numerous, without a perianth: stamens 1 to 
6; filaments capillary, often monecious, surrounded by a number of 
hairs (sterile stamens ?) dilated at the apex. Female flowers without a 
perianth: ovary slender, stalked, surrounded by numerous hairs (abor- 
tive stamens?) ; style short; stigma simple, elongate, unilateral. Fruit 
minute, longly stalked, dry, subdrupaceous, with a woody endocarp 
and a membranous epicarp splitting lengthwise and separating from the 
endocarp when the fruit is ripe. 
Aquaticplants with lorate-linear distichous leaves and brown or 
reddish spikes terminating the simple stem, both rising out of the 
water. 
Dr. Withering says this genus of plants is the rign of the ancient Greeks, from 
ripoc, a bog or marsh, this being the natural position of the species. (Theophr. iv. 11; 
Diose. iii. 123.) 
SPECIES I—TYPHA LATIFOLIA. Linn. 
Prare MCCCLXXXY. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XI. Tab. CCCXXIII. Figs. 747 and 748. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 2942. 
Leaves broadly linear, nearly flat, slightly glaucous. Male and 
female spikes contiguous, the former generally with subfoliaceous de-_ 
ciduous bracts. Female spike elongate, cylindrical, fuscous-brown in | 
fruit: stigma lanceolate-ligulate ; hairs of the axis of equal breadth 
throughout. 
Var. a, genuina, 
Leaves } to 1 inch broad. Male and female spikes continuous. 
