TIO AMONG THE WILD FLOWERS. 
The Club-rush, Sczvfus, is a more numerous 
genus, comprising 13 species, three of which 
are sometimes known by the name J/so/efzs ; 
the individuals of this genus vary much in size 
and appearance, as will be evident by com- 
paring with one another Sc. /acustris, the true 
Bulrush; Sc. Se¢aceus, the little bristle-stemmed 
plant, often seen in the greenhouse; Sc. Marite- 
mus, with its large ovate reddish-brown spikes ; 
and Sc. sylvaticus, a very handsome plant with 
a large very compound grey-green panicle or 
cyme, not unfrequent, and sometimes planted 
as an ornament to pools, where it grows by the 
side of the Bulrush, as unlike it as possible, 
though of the same genus ; whilst hard by may 
be seen the tall stems of Reed-mace, 7ypha, 
terminated by very long cylindrical blackish- 
brown spikes, often doing duty in pictures as 
the Bulrushes amid which the infant Moses 
was concealed; and, again, the tall Reed, 
Phragmites commmunzs, formerly Arundo, 
which is one of the Graminez. 
Only one other genus of the CypPERACE& 
must have mention here, viz., Evrzophorum, 
Cotton Grass, so called from the tufts or 
tassels of long bristles which ultimately sur- 
