Eleocharis.l TKIANDRIA — MONOGYNIA. 27 



8. S. sylvdticus, L. (wood Club-inisJi) ; stem triangular leafy, 

 cyme terminal many times compound, involucre of many foliace- 

 ous leaflets, glume entire acute. E. Bat. t. 919, 



Moist woods and banks of rivers. Abundant in South Kent ; about 

 Killin, at the head of Loch Tay, Perthshire, and in very many places 

 in the south of Scotland. It seems to be less frequent in England. Fl. 

 July. 1^. — A handsome species, bearing innumerable small, greenish, 

 ovate spikelets. Stem 2—3 feet high. Leaves broadly linear. Fruit 

 xvith rather long bristles. 



10. Blysmus. Panz. Blysmus. 



1. B. compressus, Panz. (broad-leaved Blijsinus^ ; lowermost 

 bractea subulate somewhat leafy, bristles 5 — 6 as long as the 

 permanent style, leaves linear channelled. — Schoenus compres- 

 sus, L — E. Bot. t. 791. — Retz. — Scirpiis caricinus, E. Fl. v. i. 

 p. 38. — Carex uliginosa, Z. 



Boggy pastures, by river-sides and near the sea : not uncommon. Fl. 

 July. If. — Stem 6 — 8 inches high, leafy. Glumes brown, striated. 

 Bristles with reflexed spines. — The habit of this and the following species 

 is quite peculiar. 



2. B. rufiis, Link, (^narrow-leaved Blt/Sfntis) ; bracteas all 

 equal membranaceous, bristles none, leaves very narrow grooved. 

 Schcenus rufus, E. Bol. t. 1010. — Scirpus rufus, Schrad. — E, 

 Fl. V. i. p^ 39. 



Marshy plains ; especially near the sea, particularly in Scotland, as 

 far as Shetland. On the coast of Wales, west of England and west of 



Ireland. Fl. July. 11 Slenderer and more rigid than the last, more 



upright : spikes darker ; the glumes more membranaceous, thin, not stri- 

 ated and more obtuse .- in both very broad and convolute. 



11. Eleocharis. Br. Spike-rush. 



1. E. palustris, Br. (creepi?}^ Spike-rush) ; stem rounded, root 

 much creeping, stigmas 2, fruit lenticular plano-convex shorter 

 than the 4 bristles, outer glume smaller than the rest. E. Bot. 

 t. 131, (Scirpus, Z.) 



Sides of ditches and wet marshy places, frequent. FL June, July. If. 

 — " Root creeping (to a great length), black and shining, as well as the 

 external sheaths of the stem. Bristles, in the flower only 4, longer 

 than the ripe fruit, flattened, dilated at the base, and broader than the 

 filaments. Receptacle elongated below the insertion of the filaments, so 

 that the flower appears to be not quite sessile, as it is in E. multicaulis. 

 Germen shorter and broader than in the next species, the style is also 

 shorter. Again, the section of the stem is different from that of E. 

 miiltic, without any central pith, but with larger membranous tubes sur- 

 rounded by smaller ones." — Wilson MSS. 



2. E. midticdulis, Sm. (many -stalked Spike-rush); stem round- 

 ed, root scarcely creeping, stigmas 3, fruit obovate triquetrous 

 longer than the 6 bristles, outer glumes smaller than the rest. 

 E. Bot. t. 1187 (Scirpus inultic.) — Scirpus palustris (3. Linn. 

 Lapp. ed. 2. 



Not uncommon, probably, in marshy places throughout the kingdom ; 



