REED-MACE 



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style being simple and stigmatic ventrally. The female flowers are 

 brown, contain i carpel and a pendulous ovule, with the micropyle 

 toward the base. The stigma ripens first. 



The small fruits, achenes, shortly stalked on a thread-like stalk, 



REED-MACE (Typha latifolia, L.) 



are fringed with hairs from the persistent perianth, and thus dispersed 

 by the wind. 



The Reed-mace is a peat-loving plant, growing in a peat soil, and 

 usually aquatic or submerged, rooting along the margins of ponds. 



The Reed-mace fungus, Epichloe typhina, is frequently to be found 

 on it. Several beetles, Stilbus oblongus, Tclcmatophilus sparganii, 

 T. caricis, T. typhce, T. schonneri, T. brevicollis, Donacia vulgaris. 



