298 CYPERACE^. 



First record: Petiver, 1695. Z. pedicellata, Tt. does not occur, but the 

 fruit in the Isle of Dogs specimens has usually a short stalk, and the 

 clusters of fruit are frequently found on a peduncle as long as the 

 carpels, which, however, are not winged, but have on their dorsal 

 margin from six to ten blunt prominences, which give to the profile a 

 crenato-dentate appearance. 



CYPERACE^. 



[CYPEEUS, Lin7i. 



722. C. fUscus, L. 



Cyb. Br. iii. 61. Hook. Curt. vol. iv.* E. B. S. 2626.t Brit. Ent. ix. 

 t. 395 (all drawn from Middlesex specimens). 



Marshy meadows ; very rare. A. September. 

 VII. In some abundance on the sides of a ditch in a low marshy meadow 

 in Little Chelsea !, A. H. Haworth ; Hook. Curt. iv. This meadow 

 is usually called Eel-brook Meadow. The plant has been probably 

 seen there every year since its discovery up to 1865, though in 1836 

 it was said to be 'extinct' (Hook, in Smith's Compendium, 14), but 

 has varied in abundance. In 1856, Mr. Irvine could find but a 

 single plant ; in 1862 we collected about a score of small spe3imens. 

 The meadow was drained in 1864 or 1865, and its present dry state 

 prevents damp-loving plants from growing there ; the spot will soon 

 be built over. 



First record : Haworth,\ 1819 ; also first as a British plant. Last, about 

 1865. Still grows on Shalford Common, Surrey.] 



ELEOCHARIS, B. Br. 



723. E. palustris, B. Br. Scirpus p., L. (L. Cat.). Cluh Bush. 

 Jmicus aquat. oninor capit. Equiseti, Ger. em. (Blackst,). 



Cyb. Br. iii. 75. Eeich. Ic. Germ. viii. 297. 



Sides of ponds, wet meadows, &c. ; common. P. June, July. 



I. Harefield ; Blackst. Fasc. 46. Harrow Weald Common ; Melv. 83. 



Near Yewsley ! ; Newh. By Elstree Eeservoir. 

 II. Bushey Park ! ; Newh. Staines Common. Simbury. 

 III. Hounslow Heath. 



« Not a ctLaracteristic specimen. 

 ■ t Syme E. B. cannot be quoted further. Throughout the Cyperaceoe, the figures of 

 vol. viii. of Keichenbach's Icones Fl. Germ, are referred to. 



X Adrian Hardy Haworth, of CoUingham, Yorkshire, was the author of several works 

 on entomology, and also published Observations on the Genus Mesemhryanthemum 1794 ; 

 Miscellanea Naturalia, &c., 1803 ; Synopsis Plant. Succulent., 1812 ; and Supplement, 1819 ; 

 NardsseammRevisio, 1812 (a second edition, 1831) ; and Saxifragearum Enumeratio, 1821. 

 He lived for some years at Little Chelsea near Eel-brook Meadow, and died there of 

 cholera, Aug. 24, 1833. Gray {Nat. Arr. vol. ii. 730) called this plant after him Cyperus 

 Hatcorthii. 



