540 MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 



hifi. f. 8. /. i^.f. I, ordinis medii. & ejusvarletas. 

 Ger. em. 45, f, 2. Pet. herh t. 72./. 10. Moris, 

 hifl.f. 8. /. 13,/. 3. ordinis medii.) 



Upright Bur. reed. Anglis. 



On the banks of lochs, and flagnant waters, not 

 iinfrequent. i;.Vl[, 



The llalk is a yard high or more, ereft, firm, and 

 branched : rhe lower leaves are triangular, the 

 upper ones plain : the male Spharula terminate 

 the branches, are much fmaller than the echinated 

 female ones below them, and have fufcous An- 

 ihera-. 



The variety of moft auth.ors, the figures of which 

 are above cired, has a (lalk not above a cubic 

 high, unbranched ; the leaves, fo far as we have 

 obferved, are nearly plain; and iht. Anther a oi 

 the male fphrerules of a pale yellow, or ftraw-co- 



■ lour'd. Wc are inclined to think It a diftinft 

 ipecies. This is the kind which mod commonly 

 occurs in Scotland. 



tciAns 2. SPAKGANIUM foliis decumbcntibus planis. 6/>. 

 pl.iZJ^. [Pet. herh. t.yi.f.ii. Oed. Dan. t. 260; 

 Floating Bur- reed. Anglis. 



\x\ the fmaller lochs of the highlands and Hebrides 

 frequent, as in the i'ttle lochs between G;r^/ and 

 Little Breeze-bill, near Talijl'er, in Skye, and near 

 Duntuhn., in the fame ifland. In the lochs going 

 to Lead-begy from Littk-Lcch-Broomy m Rofs- 



Jloire, 



