MOKOECJA DIAKDRIA. 539 



Bi'ack-Lcch, at the top of the pari ill of Tiniz^rJdy 

 and in many other pidces and ftagnani: waters. 

 Dr. Burge/}, ii\ YIL 



The ilalk is fix feet high : the leaves a yard long, 

 h.Trdly an inch Avide, convene on one fide: the 

 Amentum^ or cylindiical club, which terminates 

 the fialk, is about fix inches long, of a dark 

 brown or fuicous colour-' 



Cattle will fometinies eat the leaves, but ^iihreher 

 thini:s them noxious : tlie roots have foir.edr.^cs 

 been eaten in fallads, and the down of the Amen- 

 tum ufed to fluff mattrclles and cufliions : and 

 Linn^us informs us, that the leaves are ufed by 

 the coopers in Sweden to bind the hoops of their 

 caikse \i\ EngJcivd the coopers ufe the ilalks of 

 the Scirpus lacuftris, or Bull-ruili, to fallen the 

 joints of the timber m the heads of their calks. 

 One ilalk opened longitudinally, and laid be- 

 tv/een each junclure, anfwers the intention, as 

 it prevents the oozing of the liquor through it. 



SPARGANIUM. Gen. p!. 1041. 



MASC. Amentum fubrotundum. Cal. 3-phyllus. 



Cor. o 

 FEM, Amentum fubrotundum. CaL 3-phyilus. 



Cor. o. Stigma 2-fidun"). 



Drtipa exfucca, i-fperma. 



creclmn i. SPARGANIUM foiiis eredis triquetris. Sp.pi, 

 1378 {Ger. en?. 45. /. i.' Pet. herb, t.yi.f.g, 



Moris. 



