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the 3 inner erect. Anthers sessile, purplish, lying in the concavity of 
the perianth segments. Fruit yellowish-olive, erect, applied to the 
stem, } to 2 inch long; carpels attenuated into a narrow base, the 
carpels separated by slight furrows, and when they fall leaving a 
triquetrous columella. Plant bright green. 7 
Marsh Arrowgrass. 
French, Troscart des marais. German, Sunpf Dreizack. 
This plant is common in wet meadows, and in marshy situations generally. 
SPECIES Il—TRIGLOCHIN MARITIMUM. Lim. 
Prate MCCCCXXXIV. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. VII. Tab. LIT. Figs. 92 and 93. 
Rootstock of numerous slender bulbs growing in a circle, adherin 
to a common rhizome, without elongated runners. Leaves in ceespitose 
tufts, semicylindrical, flattened above, flat towards the apex. Scapes 
erect, longer than the leaves. Fruit oblong-ovoid, splitting into ¢ 
cocea; cocca truncate at the base. 
sea. Common, and generally distributed along the coast. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer, Autumn. 
A stouter and more fleshy plant than T. palustre, and of a pale 
green colour, with the leaf-tutts forming, by the sheathing bases of 
leaves, small fusiform bulbs, which are aggregated and often very) 
numerous in old plants. Leaves 3 to 18 inches long, with more dilated 
sheathing bases than in T. palustre, and with the free part of the 
adnate stipules which form the sheath longer than in that plant. Seape 
6 inches to 3 feet high, stout, often more than one produced in succes: 
sion from each leaf-tuft, the lower part as well as the leaves curving 
slightly, with the convexity turned towards the outside of the tusso 
formed by the union of the leaf-tufts. Flowers similar in appearanet 
to those of T. palustre, but larger and closer together. Raceme densé 
both in flower and fruit. Pedicels much shorter than the perianth 
and also shorter than the fruit, ascending. Fruit olive-yellow, wher 
fully ripe scarcely } inch long, with 6 carpels, which separate readily 
from the columella, and do not remain for some time suspended by 
their apex as in T. palustre. Plant pale green, somewhat glaucous. 
Seaside Arrowgrass. 
French, Troscart maritime. German, Meerstrands Dreizack. 1 
