194 AMONG THE WILD FLOWERS. 
mingled with these is the Great Valerian, 
Valeriana offictnalts, with pale rose-coloured 
triandrous flowers. Below, extending like 
troops in long unbroken line, the triangular 
stems and branches of several kinds of Carex 
rise from the water, especially C. Paludosa and 
C. Riparia, which often grow together, and, in 
company with the true Bulrush, Sczvpus lacus- 
tris, and the more rare and handsome Scz7fus 
sylvaticus, form the haunt of the Dab-chick. 
The Bulrush is not one of the Rush family, 
Funcacee, whose flowers have a 6-partite peri- 
anth, and are hexandrous, having 6 stamens, 
but is of the Nat. Ord. Cyperaces; it has a tall 
dark-green pointed stem rising many feet above 
the water, and producing a panicled spike of 
brownish flowers at the end. The lesser plant 
of the same genus, Sczrpus sylvaticus, is about 
2 feet high, paler green, with broad flat leaves, 
and a much more compound and _ widely- 
spreading panicle. 
This last is sometimes found in company 
with the Reed-mace, 7ypha, the plant with the 
club-like velvety spike, which is so generally 
miscalled “ Bulrush.” Typha is seldom, how- 
ever, a river-side plant, appearing to delight in 
