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(ally, thick and strong ; stem four or five feet high. This 

 Rush is very generally used for bottoming chairs : if cut at 

 one year old, it makes the fine hottoms ; coarse bottoms are 

 ir.ade of it of two years' old ; such as are still older, mixed 

 with the leaves of Iris Pseudacorus, make the coarsest bot- 

 toms. Mats are also made either with this Rush alone, or 

 mixed with Log leaves. Cottages are sometimes thatched, 

 and pack-saddles stuffed, with it. It is of a soft pliant tex- 

 ture, totally destitute of the roughness or cutting edges of 

 many grass-like plants. In hard seasons cattle will eat it. 

 Native of Europe, Siberia, Japan, Jamaica, and of North 

 America,, where it is found in stagnant waters, from Canada 

 to Carolina. It flowers in July and August, and grows abun- 

 dantly in clear ditches and streams, fens, pools, and lakes. 



14. Scirpus Glomeratus. Culm naked, roundish; umbel 

 glomerate ; involucre two-leaved, short ; flowers two-stamined. 

 Native of Ceylon. 



15. Scirpus Arvensis. Culm compressed, striated; umbels 

 simple ; involucre one-leafed, short. Native of Ceylon. 



16. Scirpus Truncatus. Culm round; head glomerate, 

 globular; involucre two-leaved; leaves linear. Native of the 

 Cape. 



17. Scirpus Laciniatus. Culm round; head triangular; 

 glumes ovate, ciliate ; involucre two-leaved. Native of the 

 Cape. 



18. Scirpus Membranaceus. Culm round ; head angular; 

 glumes ovate, membranaceous ; involucre three-leaved. 

 Native of the Cape. 



19. Scirpus Pilosus. Culm compressed ; head ovate ; 

 glumes lanceolate, ciliate; involucre four-leaved. Native of 

 the Cape. 



20. Scirpus Hystrix. Culm capillary; head commonly 

 two-spiked; glumes acuminate, squarrose ; involucre one- 

 leafed. Native of the Cape. 



21. Scirpus Holoschosnus ; Round Cluster-headed Club 

 Rush. Culm round, naked ; heads glomerate, peduncled, or 

 sessile; involucre two-leaved, unequal; leaves channelled. 

 Root tufted, perennial ; stem rushy, firm, smooth, two or 

 three feet high. Native of England, Germany, and the 

 southern parts of Europe and Barbary : found in this country 

 at Braunton Borough's, Devonshire; and in Somersetshire 

 and Hampshire. There are two varieties common in the 

 outh of Europe. 



22. Scirpus Nodosus. Culm compressed, knotted; head 

 glomerate, mucronate. Native of the Cape. 



23. Scirpus Radiatus. Culm round; head hemispherical; 

 involucre many-leaved. Native of the Cape. 



24. Scirpus Setaceus; Bristle-stalked Club Rush. Culm 

 naked, setaceous; spikes lateral, commonly two, sessile, with- 

 out bractes. Root fibrous, tufted ; stems several, slender, 

 two to five inches high. Native of most parts of Europe, in 

 wet sandy ground, and on sandy coasts, flowering in July. 



25. Scirpus Supinus. Culms striated, each with a single 

 sheathing leaf) spike sessile, glomerate in the middle of the 

 culm. Native of France, near Paris, Brandenburg, and 

 Cochin-china. 



26. Scirpus Natans. Culm compressed, leafy, flexuose, 

 erect ; spikes two, lateral. Native of the Cape. 



27. Scirpus Vaginatus. Culm filiform; heads lateral, alter- 

 nate, shorter than the involucre. Native of the Cape. 



28. Scirpus Tristachyos. Culm capillary; head three- 

 spiked; glumes entire; involucre two-leaved. Native of the 

 Cape. 



29. Scirpus Uncinatus. Hairy: culm round, leafy; spikes 

 conglomerated into a head, terminating, and axillary. Native 

 of the East Indies. 



30. Scirpus Aristatus. Culm striated, round, leafy; panicle 

 terminating, two-leaved ; spikelets ovate, squarrose, echinate. 

 Native of the East Indies. 



31. Scirpus Diphyllus. Culms 3emicylindrical, striated, 

 two-leaved ; umbel compound, with a two-leaved involucre 

 longer than it. Native of the East Indies. 



32. Scirpus Fastigiatds. Culm filiform ; head convex, 

 compressed ; outer glumes mucronate ; involucre none. 

 Native of the Cape. 



33. Scirpus Globulosus. Ctilm compressed, naked ; panicle 

 terminating ; spikelet single, sessile, several, peduncled, glo- 

 bular. Native of the East Indies. 



34. Scirpus Globiferus. Culm naked, round; umbel ter- 

 minating, compound ; heads globular, composed of several 

 spikelets, closely heaped. Native of Teneriffe. 



'* Culm three-sided ; Panicle naked. 



35. Scirpus Tricuspicatus. Culm angular, naked ; spikes 

 terminating in threes, sessile, naked. Native of the Cape. 



36. Scirpus Lateralis. Culms thr.ee-sided, naked; spikes sub- 

 tern, lateral; involucre one-leafed, short. Native of Ceylon. 



37. Scirpus Triqueter; Triangular Club or Bull Rush. 

 Culm three-sided, straight, tomentose ; spikes lateral, sessile, 

 or peduncled. Root fibrous, tufted, perennial ; stems erect, 

 three feet high, dark green, with three acute angles. A variety 

 is found in the island of Jersey. Native of Germany, Eng- 

 land, and other parts of Europe, and also North America. 

 In England it generally occurs on the' sea-shore, and on the 

 banks of large rivers^ as by the Thames, both above and below 

 London ; observed also in the side of Acle Dam, in Norfolk. 



38. Scirpus Mucronatus. Culm triangular, naked, acumi- 

 nate; spikes conglomerate, sessile, lateral. This is easily 

 distinguished from the preceding, by its great stature; its 

 thicker culm, the angles more acute, with the intermediate 

 spaces a little hollowed ; its thicker ovate spikelets, twenty 

 or more collected into a head ; and being of a finer grass- 

 green. Native of Switzerland, the south of France, Carniola, 

 and Italy. 



39. Scirpus Dichotomus. Culm three-sided, naked ; umbel 

 decompounded : spikes in the forks sessile. This is an annual. 

 Two varieties have been found in Ceylon. Native of the 

 East Indies, Arabia, Italy, and Barbary. 



40. Scirpus Echinatus. Culm three-sided, naked ; umbel 

 simple; spikes ovate; leaves carex-form, length of the culm. 

 Native of both Indies. 



41. Scirpus Retrofractus. Culm three-sided ; umbel sim- 

 ple ; floscules of the spikes retrofracted. Native of Virginia. 



42. Scirpus Ferrugineus. . Culm three-sided, almost naked; 

 involucres length of the panicle, and ciliate. Native of Ja- 

 maica, and other islands of the West Indies, both in dry and 

 wet situations. 



43. Scirpus Spadiceus. Culm three-sided, naked; umbel 

 almost naked ; spikes oblong, sessile, and terminating. Native 

 of South America, Virginia, and Jamaica. 



**** Culm three-sided; Panicle leafy. 



44. Scirpus Anomalus. Culm three-sided, leafy; panicle 

 terminating, short; spikelets ovate; flowers corolled, the 

 lower one-stamined, the upper two-stamined. Native of the 

 East Indies. 



4o. Scirpus Miliaceus. Culm three-sided, naked ; umbel 

 superdecorapound ; intermediate spikes sessile; involucres 

 setaceous. Native of the East Indies. 



46. Scirpus Maritimus ; Salt-marsh Club Rush. Culm 

 three-sided; panicle clustered, leafy, terminating; glumes 

 mucronate, lacerate, trifid. Roots creeping, knotty at the 

 extremities, sometimes they are more evidently and constantly 

 so than in general, There are many varieties of this species ; 



