54 TRIANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Scirpus. 



2. C.fuscus. Brown Cyperus. 



Stem triangular. Umbel compound, with three unequal 



leaves beneath. Spikes crowded, spreadmg every way. 



Stigmas three. 

 C. fuscus. Linn. Sp. PI. 69. WiUd. v. 1. 280. Vahl Enum. v. 2. 



336. Hook. Lond. t. 85. Fl. Ban. t. 179. Fl. GrcEc. v. 1. 34. 



^.48. Poit. «f Turp. Par. t. 75. Schrad. Germ. v. 1. 118. Leers 9. 



t.\.f. 2. Ehrh. Calam. HI. 

 C. n. 1349. Hall. Hist. v.2.\Q\. 



C. minimus, panicula sparsS, nigricante. Scheuchz. Agr. 384. 

 C. minor pulcher, panicula compressa nigricante. Moris, v. 3. 239. 



sec^.8. t. 11./. 38. 



In wet meadowSj rare. 



Found by Mr. Haworth in a low marshy meadow, half a mile from 

 Little Chelsea. Hooker. 



Annual. Sept. 



Root of many simple fibres. Stems several, about 6 inches high, 

 smooth and phant. Spikes numerous. Gl. brown, more or less 

 dark, pale at the keel ; the lower ones gradually deciduous with 

 the seed. Stam. but 2 according to Dr. Hooker ; 3 are repre- 

 sented in Fl. Dan. as well as by Leers, Poiteau, and Bauer. 

 We have seen no living specimens to settle this matter. The 

 seed is triangular, inequilateral, pale, with a simple beak. Will- 

 denow, Vahl, and even Schrader, copy Linnseus's erroneous 

 reference to Morison, t. 9, for 11. 



25. SCIRPUS. Club-rush, and Bull-rush. 



Linn. Gen. 30. Juss. 27. Fl.Br. 48. Br.Pr. 223. Lam. t.38.f. 2. 

 Gcertn. t. 2. 



Isolepis. Br. Pr. 221. 



Nat. Ord. see n. 22. 



SpiJce of numerous jlonsers^ all perfect. Gl. imbricated in 

 every direction, expanded, concave, uniform, except 1 or 

 2 occasionally. Cor. none. Filam. flat. A)ith. linear. 

 Style neither jointed nor dilated at the base, deciduous. 

 Stigin. 2 or 3, downy. Seed with or without rough bristles 

 beneath ; often pointed. 



Bog or water plants for the most part, with generally 

 perennial, fibrous, seldom creeping, roots. Stem round or 

 angular, naked, except at the base or summit, without 

 joints.. Iriflorescence usually compound, rarely simple. 

 Isolepis differs solely in the want of bristles under the 

 germen. 



