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SCIRPUS PARVULUS, R. el S. 
Bv A. G. Morz, Esq., F.L.S., M.R.I.A. 
(PLarTE LXXXV.) 
Ess. Cuar. Plant growing in small tufts, which are connected by 
thread-like stolons, terminating in minute tubers. Stems green above, 
white below, hyaline and cellular, each with one adpressed membranous 
sheath and no leaves. Spikes upright, terminal. Glumes ovate, 
transparent, with a green dorsal nerve. Stigmas 3. Fruit obovate, 
trigonous, smooth, surrounded by three (or “ four to six ") scabrous 
bristles. 
Syn. Scirpus parvulus, Roemer et Schultes, Syst. Veget. ii. 124 
(1817); Kunth, En. Plant. ii. 157; Wahlenberg, Fl. Suec. 1095; 
Fries, Summa Veg. Scand. 69; Koch, Synopsis (ed. 2), ii. 854; 
Babington, Man. (ed. 6), 373; Hooker and Arnott, Brit. Flor. (ed. 8), 
496; Bromfield in Phytologist, o. s., iii. 1028; Grenier et Godron, 
Flor. Franc. iii. 378 ; Lloyd, Flore de l'Ouest (ed. i.) 478 ; Boreau, 
Flore du Centre (ed. 3), 659 ; Bertoloni, Fl. Ital. i. 277 ; Parlatore, H. 
It. i. 78; Ledebour, Fl. Ross. iv. 216.—Scirpus nanus, Sprengel, 
Pug. i. 4 (1813); Wallroth, Ann. Bot. 7; Hornemann, Hort. Hafn. 
113 (non Poiret). Scirpus humilis, Wallroth, Sched. Crit. 27 (1822). 
Scirpus translucens, Le Gall. in Lloyd, Flor. Loire (1844). Limno- 
chloa parvula, Reichenbach, Flor. Exeurs. 78 (1830). Eleogiton par- 
vula, Link, Hort. Reg. Berol Descr. i. 285 (1827). Eleocharis 
parvula, Hooker, Brit. Flor. (ed. 5) 418 (1842). Beothryon nanum, 
Dietrich, in Willd. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, vol. i. part i. sect. 2, p. 91 (18: 
B. parvulus, Nees ab Esenb. Gen. Pl. Flor. Germ. ii. n. 17 (1843). 
Fic. ‘Flora Danica, xiii—mmelxi.; Reichenbach, Ie. Flor. Germ. 
viii.-cexcix. n. 706; Sturm, ‘ Deutschlands Flora,’ in Abbildungen, 
85, fig. 1; Andersson, Cyp. Scand. tab. i. fig. 20. 
Descr. Plant very small, growing upon the soft mud in tufts, which 
are furnished with many fibrous roots at their base, and are conuected 
with each other by white thread-like runners, these last terminating 
also in little ovate-subulate tubers, which form a kind of hybernacu- 
lum or starting-point for future stems. Stems not branched or pro- 
strate, 5 to 8 in each tuft, often barren, 1 to 14 inch high, roundish, 
subcompressed, tapering from below upwards, quite smooth, white in 
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