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obtuse or retuse, fertile, one to three, roundish, approximat< 

 sessile ; sheaths short, membranaceous, lower most general!] 

 with an awl-shaped bractea; glumes broadly ovate, usually 

 emarginate, mucronate ; fruit very downy, obovate, oblong 

 trigonous, the sides nearly flat, beak very short, notched 

 roots tufted, fibrous. 



C. montana, Schk. English Botany, t. 2924. C.pubescens 

 Gand. 



Near Tunbridge Wells, Sussex ; Limestone Wood, abou 

 four miles from Chepstow, Monmouthshire ; near PenmoyL 

 Bocks, Gloucestershire. 



1236. S. cuspidata, Schultz. Leaves oblong, lanceolate, much acu 

 minate ; stipules half- cordate, oblique ; stamens three tc 

 four ; style short ; stigmas bifid ; stalks of the ovary three tc 

 four times as long as the gland. 8. Meyeriana, Willd. 

 Near Shrewsbury. The Rev. W. A. Leighton. 



1304. A. nitens, Relent. Stem herbaceous, erect branched ; leaves 

 triangular, acuminate, shining above, glaucous beneath, lower 

 ones cordate, hastate, upper deltoid, somewhat auriculed, 

 uppermost lanceolate ; perianth of the fruit ovate, acuminate, 

 entire, smooth on the back, thin, and finely reticulated. 



Sea-shore. Byde, Isle of Wight. Dr. Bromfield. ATiTma.1, 

 flowering in August and September. 



[Anacharis alsinastrum, a North American plant, has re- 

 cently, and with most extraordinary rapidity, naturalized 

 itself in our streams and canals, extending and growing so 

 vigorously as to obstruct, in many parts of the country, the 

 passage of the canals, and fill up the streams, mill-ponds, 

 dams, &c.] 



