56 TRIANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Scirpus. 



Near Yarmouth, Norfolk. Mr. D. Turner. 



Perennial. August. 



Smaller than the last, with several barren stems, but no real leaves. 

 The numerous radical polished imbricated scales are also want- 

 ing, there being only a very few thin and narrow ones, besides 

 the close abrupt sheaths which embrace each stem. Spike smaller 

 and blacker than in S. ccespitosus, but, except when starved, 

 twice as long as the 2 outer glumes, which end in a rounded 

 membranous border. Seed grey, shining, obtuse, with a brown 

 point, and at the base 6 fine rough bristles. 



I prefer Lightfoofs unexceptionable and original name to the 

 pedantic one of Ehrhart, foisted, like many other such, by him, 

 into the Supplementum of Linnaeus, while printing ; contrary to 

 the author's intention. 



3. ^.Jluitans. Floating Club-rush. 



Stem branched, leafy, pliant and floating. Flower-stalks 

 alternate, naked. Spikes terminal, of few flowers. 



S. fluitans. Linn. Sp. PL 7\. Willd. v. J . 295. Fahl Enum. v. 2. 



246. Fl. Br. 51. Engl. Bot. v. 3. t.2l6. Hook. Scot. 18. IJun 



H. Br. 129. Schrad. Germ. v. 1. 130. Fl. Dan. t. 1082. 

 S. equiseto capitulo minori. Rail Si/n. 431. Scheuchz.Agr.3Go. 



t.7.f.20. 

 Isolepis fluitans. Br.Pr. 221. 

 Gramen junceum clavatum minimum, seu Holosteum pahistre 



repens, foliis capitulis et seminibus psyllii. Moris, v. 3. 230. 



sect. 8. t. 10. /.31. Pluk.PhyLt.35.f'.\. 



In ditches and ponds ; as well as in pools upon grassy commons 

 and heaths, occasionally dried up. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Stem zigzag, most slender in the lower part. Leaves awl-shaped, 

 keeled, spreading at nearly a right angle with their sheaths ; 

 those that are under water longest and almost capillary. Flower- 

 stalks 2 or 3 inches long, compressed, contracted at the top. 

 Spikes solitary, small, pale green, with obtuse glumes, and 

 yellow anthers. Style short. Stigmas 2, long and feathery. 

 Seed pale, round, with 3 angles, and ^ very small point ; no 

 .bristles underneath, 



** Stem round, with several spikes. 



4. S. lacustris. Bull-rush. 



Stem round, naked. Panicle cymose, twice compound, 

 terminal. Spikes ovate. Bracteas generally much sliorter 

 than the panicle. 



5. lacustris. Linn. Sp. PI. 72. Willd. v. 1. 296. VuM Enum, v. 2. 



