452 07. CYPERACE.E. 



ctoles ending in ovate-subulate tubers. St. about an inch high, 

 several, with 2 or 3 longitudinal fibres and more or less perfect 

 transverse lines. Bristles 4 6. Lymington, Hants (extinct). 

 Poole, Dorset. Aveton Gifford, JDev. Wicklow. Kerrv. 

 A. VII. E.I. 



#** Bristles 0. f Spike solitary. ELEOGITON Link. 



10. S.Jluitans (L.) ; st. floating branched leafy, 1. clustered, 

 fl. -stalks alternate with a sheathing 1. at the base, spike terminal 

 ovate few-flowered, gl. blunt keeled membranous at their edges, 

 2 outer gl. larger shorter than the spike and enclosing it, nut ob- 

 ovate, stigmas 2. E. B. 216. R. viii. 298. St. rooting from 

 the lower joinings and spreading to a great extent in a zigzag 

 manner. On mud it is csespitose with truly sheathing leaves. 

 Ditches and ponds. P. VI. VII. E. S. I. 



ft St. round, leafy at the base. Spikes 1 3. ISOLEPIS R. Br. 



11. S. setdceus (L.) ; spikes terminal, lower bract long so as 

 to resemble a short continuation of the st., gl. blunt niucronate, 

 nut trigonous obovate longitudinally ribbed and transversely 

 striate, stigmas 3.JE. B. 1693. R. viii. 301. St. tufted, 

 slender, 3 6 in. high. Spikes small, sessile, considerably shorter 

 than the lower bract. Gl. brown with whitish margins and a 

 green keel. Wet sandy and gravelly places. P. ? VII. E. S. I. 



12. S. cer'nuus (Vahl) ; lower bract shorter or slightly longer 

 than the terminal spike, gl. blunt submucronate, nut subglobose 

 rough with minute points, stigmas 3. E. B. S. 2782. J?. viii. 301. 

 S. Savii (S. & M.) ed. viii. Closely resembling S. setaceus. 

 Spikes varying considerably in length, sometimes 1 in. long. 

 Gl. scarcely mucronate, greenish, usually with a brown spot on 

 the upper part of each side. In many places near the coast. 

 A. or P. VII. E. S. I. 



tft Spikes many, clustered. HOLOSCHCENUS Link. 



13. S. Holoschce'nus (L.) ; st. round, spikes in dense globular 

 sessile or stalked clusters, lower bract erect long, gl. obovate 

 emarginate niucronate. E. B. 1612. St. 3 4 feet high, round 

 quite up to the cluster. Upper bract patent or ascending ; lower 

 very long, with a flat open white channel. Gl. variegated with 

 fuscous and white, pilose. Anth. with a long entire or toothed 

 point. Braunton Burrows, Devon. Somerset. P. IX. E. 



7. BLYS'MUS Panz. 

 1. B. compressus (Panz.); spikelets 6 8-flowered, outer gl. 



