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and branches, and fometimes in pairs 

 at the arm-pits of the leaves. 

 This plant grows in wet ground, and 



flowers in Augujl, 

 Observation. The three chives only 

 in each bundle, and the three oyal-fhap'd bo- 

 dies on the feat of the flower, together with 

 the feat to which the feeds adhere, diflin- 

 guifh this plant from the hype?'icims ; and, 

 I think, not only make it a difl^erent genus, 

 fc>ut likeways makes an order which Lin- 

 jfiEus has not. 



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