Scirpus. | CYPERACE” (Clarke). 213 
Leaves se a 
Ste os ean naieons c 
hapa notched ; style-branches (4€) triqueter 
Glumes entire, ss style-br mete a “i paludicola. 
Stem terete or tri 
Hypogynons bris tle ‘setaceous ... ... (47) lacustris. 
ypogynous Sinton te eathery ae a littoralis, 
Leaves longer than the ste em, flat } in, broad ... (47) maritimus. 
Subgenus IV, Micranru &. Stem with basal leaves only or leafless. Spikelets 
solitary, or small and capitate. Hypogynous bristles none. Style hardly any, 
branches short Tene Fertile flower usually 2-sexual. 
Spikelet solitary ; glumes very obtuse .- (48) Isolepis, 
Spikelets capitate; glumes ve ry long-awned «. (49) Hystrix. 
Subgenus V. Psevuposcuanvs. Leafless. Spikelet 
in an + pant br paca panicle. Hypo saci baistiaa 
. ‘a and its PERE elongate. Flowers polygamo- 
dicecic digagieel oa. (30) spathacaus. 
S. fluitans (Linn. Sp. Plant. ed. 2, 71); glabrous ; ee weak, 
branched, floating or creeping in wet places, often 6-12 long, 
with numerous leaf-bearing nodes nearly throughout its satin Teeth ; 
leaves 1-4 by .) m™,, sheathing at the base; peduncles axillary, 
1-5 In. long, scattered, rarely several together, each carrying | 
spikelet ; bract 0, i.e. lowest glume (often empty) like the flower- 
bearing glumes and early deciduous; spikelet } by ~; in., cylindric- 
but some Cape examples are short, few-flowered, green, as the common 
European form) ; glumes ovate, concave, hardly bela ‘bandly acute, 
Steen or more or less purple-marked ; hypogynous bristles 0; stamens 
Usually 2; anthers oblong-linear, not sagen i linear, eres as 
compressed, oe straw-coloured, finally inal ati outermost 
cells minute, aves withering scarious and peeling off, so that 
‘he nut under a co ommon lens is smooth, hardly at all longitudinally 
Strate. Sniwer ‘by, Engl. Bot. t. 216; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 485, 
excluding var, y and Isolepis ‘Ludwiii BiG. B. a in Hook. f. 
41. Brit. Ind. vi. 853. Isolepis fluitans, R. Br. Prod. 221: Kunth, 
uum, ii, 188, I. fascicularis, Kunth, Enum. _ 188. Eleugiton 
Sasciculari ‘ts, Nees in Linnwa, x. 165. 
st Reeron: Tul bagh Div.; Mitchells Pass, Rehmann, 2372 ! Worcester 
iy 3 Drakenstein ia aba 3000-4000 ft., Drége, 7409! King Williamstown 
a Perie € Forest, ICuntze, 268 ! 
NTRAL Raion : occas Div.; wet places on the summit of Bosch Berg, 
Meoent 1885 
Kevanan Rec Nasraties Hooge Veld, Rehmann, 6551! 
N REG ; Van Reenans Pass, 5800 ft., Kuntze, 234! and 
without s precise porn feskiene, 345! 346! 
Widely dispersed in Europe, Africa, South East Asia, and Australia. 
