62 TRIANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Eleocharis. 



13. S. sylvaticus. Wood Club-rush. Millet Cy- 

 peru3-giass. 



Stem triangular, leafy througliout. Panicle terminal, leafy, 

 cjmose, repeatedly compound. Flower-stalks sheathed 

 at the base. Spikes aggregate. 



S. svlvaticus. Linn. Sp. PL 75. Willd. v. ]. 307. Vahl Enum. 



v'.2. 271. Fl. Br. 57. Engl. Bot. v. 13. t.9\9. Hook. Scot. 19. 



Fl. Ban. t.307. Schrad. Germ. v. 1. 145. Leers 10. t. l.f. 4. 



Ehrh.Calam. 131. 

 S. n. 1340. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 178. 

 Cyperus gramineus. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 504. /. Rail Syn. 426. 



Scheuchz. Agr. 393. 

 C. gramineus miliaceus. Ger. Em. 30./. 

 Gramen cyperoides miliaceum. Bauh. Theatr. 90. f. 

 G. arundinaceum, foliis acutissimisj panicula multiplici, cyperi 



facie. Loes. Pruss. 1 19. J. 33. 



In moist shady woods, not common. 



In Pembrokeshire, Warwickshire and Essex. Ray. In Norfolk. 

 Mr. Rose, and Mr. Stone. In several woods about London, as 

 well as in the south of Scotland. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root creeping. Stem a yard high, or more, smooth. Leaves nu- 

 merous, grassy, flat ; rough and cutting at t'ne edges and keel. 

 Panicle of innumerable, little, dark-green, ovate spikes. Glumes 

 obtuse, with more or less of a small point. Stigm. 3. Seed len- 

 ticular, convex at one side, whitish, smooth, with 6 or 8 longish 

 rough bristles. 



'26. ELEOCHARIS. Spike-rush. 



Br. Pr. 224. 



Scirpus. Tourn. t. 300, Lam. t. 38./. 1 . 



Nat. Ord. see n. 22. 



Spike of numerous ^ow^r5, all perfect. Gl. imbricated in 

 every direction, expanded, uniform. Cor. none. Filam. 

 capillary. Anth, linear. Germ, compressed. Style di- 

 lated at the base, and united, by a suddenly contracted 

 joint, with the germen. Stigm. 2 or 3. Seed lenticular, 

 or triangular, crowned with the hard, discoloured, 

 wrinkled, triangular or compressed, permanent base of 

 the style. Bristles 4 — 12, finely toothed, beneath the 

 germen, rarely wanting, springing from one common mem- 

 branous base with the 3 stamens. 



[The ingenious Mr. Kunth, in a treatise on the family of 

 Cyperacece, p. 4-, has objected to Mr. Brown's idea of an 



