TRIANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Cj-perus. 53 



Purbeck, Dorsetshire, by the Rev. Mr. Lightfoot, according to 

 a specimen in the herbarium of the Rev. Mr. Hasted^ Bury. 



Mr. John Denson. 

 Smaller than R. alba. Leaves narrower, of a more even thickness, 

 not tapering. Glumes of a shining n ddish brown. Bristles only 

 3, alternate with the 3 permanent stam. Style varying in length. 



24. CYPERUS. Cyperus, or Galingale. 



Linn. Gen. 29. Juss. 27. Fl. Br. 47. Tourn. t. 299. /. D— F. 

 Lam. t. 38. Geertn. t.2. 



Nat. Ord. see n. 22. 



Spike mostly linear, compressed, of numerous Jlowers, with 

 uniform, keeled glumes, imbricated in 2 opposite ranks, 

 all perfect, except one or two at the bottom. Filam. 2 

 or 3, short. Anth. linear. Germ, roundish, without 

 bristles beneath. Style simple at the base, deciduous. 

 Stigm. 2 or 3. Seed pointed, smooth, loose. 



Root fibrous, or creeping. Stein simple, without joints, 

 round, or mostly triangular, leafy or sheathed about the 

 bottom, as well as at the summit. Spikes terminal, ag- 

 gregate, either capitate or spiked. 



1. C. longus. Sweet Cyperus. English Galingale. 



Stem triangular. Umbel leafy, twice compoimded, with 

 naked stalks. Spikes alternate. 



C. longus. Linn. Sp. PL 67 . W/M. c. 1. 285, excl. Rottb. syn. 



VahlEnum. v. 1. 346. Fl. Br. 47. Engl. Bot. v. 19. t. 1309. 



Jacq. Ic. Rar. t. 297. RaiiSyn. 425. Ger. Em.30.tf. Schrad. 



Germ. v. 1. 120. 

 C. longus odoratus. Bauh. Theatr. 216. f. Moris, v. 3. 237. sect.8. 



t. 11./. 13. 

 C. odoratus, radice longa. Scheuchz. Agr. 378. t. S.f. 12. 



In marshes, but very rare. 



By a rivulet between St. David's town and St. David's head. Sir 

 John Culliim, Bart. At Walton in Gordan, Somersetshire. 

 Mr, Dyer, 



Perennial, July. 



Root moderately creeping, highly aromatic, and astringent. Stem 

 2 or 3 feet high, with a very large, leafy, compound, erect um- 

 bel, whose slender triangular stalks are closely sheathed at the 

 base. Spikes shining brovm, narrow, erect, 5 or 6 together, 

 loosely spreading in 2 directions. Sdgm. 3. 



