26 TUIANDKIA — MONOGYNIA. [Scirpus, 



or stalked heads, leaves subulate cliannelled, bristles to the flower 

 none. E. Bot. t. 1612. — Isolepis, Nees. 



Sandy sea-sliores, only found in the extreme southern and western 

 parts of England. Fl. Sept. If.. 



S. S. sctdceus, L. (bristle-slalked Club-rush) ; stem compressed 

 •\vitli 1 or 2 leaves at the base, spikelets about 2 ternnnal, gene- 

 ral bractea erect leafy much shorter than the stem, fruit ribbed 

 obovate and marked with transverse lines, bristles none. E» 

 JBot. t. 1G93. — Isolepis setacea, Br. 



Moist gravelly places, frequent. Fl. July, Aug. If. — Stems tufted, 

 2 — 5 inches high, very slender. Stam. 2. Stigmas 3. 



4. S. Sdvii, Spreng. (Savi's Club-rush) ; stem round leafy 

 below, spikelets 1 — 3 terminal shorter than the unequally two- 

 leaved involucre, fruit subglobose rough with slightly elevated 

 points, bristles none. Hook, in E. Bot. Suppl. t. 2782 — Isolepis 

 Saviana, Roem. et Sch. — Scirpus filiformis, Savi — /3. monosta- 

 chys; spikeletsolitary withashorter involucral bractea. Hook.l.c. 



Wet bogs, Ireland, and in the west of England and Scotland, Jersey, 

 &c.— (3. Cork, Mr Sealj/. FL July. Ijf.. — In habit much resembling 

 the last species, as the var. /S. does the Eleocharis aciculuris ; but the 

 fruit is quite peculiar. Stajnens 3. 



5. S. triqueier,^ L. (triangular Club-rush) ; stem acutely tri- 

 quetrous straight at the point, its sheaths leafy, spikelets ovate 

 or oblongo-ovate clustered sessile and stalked naked, stigmas 2, 

 fruit smooth. E. Bot. t. 1694. 



Muddy banks of rivers, near London ; a var. with spikelets all sessile 

 was found in Jersey by Sherard; perhaps the S.pungeiis, Vahl. Fl.Aug, T-f., 



6. S. carindtus, Sm. (blunt-edged Club-rush) ; stem rounded at 

 the base bluntly triangular upwards, its sheaths leafless, cyme 

 terminal decompound, involucre of 2 unequal leaves, spikelets 

 oblong, stigmas 2. E. Bot. t. 1983. 



Banks of rivers, very rare. About London and on the banks of the 

 Arun, Sussex. Fl. July, Aug. 1^ • 



7. S. maritimus, L. {salt-marsh Club-rush) ; stem leafy trian- 

 gnlai-, spikelets terminal clustered stalked and sessile, involucre 

 of many foliaceous leaflets, glumes with a mucro between the 

 acute segments of the notch. E. Bot. t. 542. 



Salt-marshes, frequent. FL July, Aug. If-. — Root creeping, some- 

 times swelling into knots or tubers. Leaves frequently longer than the 

 stem, flat, acuminate. Stigmas 3. Bristles 3 — 4, accompanying the 

 smooth, obovato-triangular/)-M2V. 



' Mr Babhigton separates from this : — " 5. puvgens, Vahl (sharp Cluh-rushy 

 stem triquetrous, spikes 1 — 3 sessile lateral, glumes smooth pointed emargi- 

 iiate sliglitly fringed their lobes acute, stigmas 2, apex of the anthers subulate 

 and ciliated, root creeping. Dab. in E. Bot. Suppl. ined. — ej. Prim. FL 



Sarn. ined — Sc. liothii, Gaud. Fl. Nelv. 1. 124 Sc. tenuifoUus, DC. FL 



Franc. 5. ICO. Bot. GaU. 1. p. 4S7 Sc. triqueter. /3. Sm. EngL FL I. 60. 



Juncus acutus maritimus, cauh: triqiiefro rigido, mucrone pnngente. Hay, Syn. 

 4'29 — On the wet sandy banks of St Ouen's Pond, Jersey, first noticed by 

 Sherard, as recorded in Ray's Syn., — since re-discovered by Mr Jos. Woods. 

 FL July. 1[. — Uistingnished from Sc. triqueter, by its acutely lobed glumes 

 and the subulate point to its anthers."— jBai. 



