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deciduous, its base conical, persistent, not pointed to the ovary ; 

 stigmas 2 or 3. Nut lenticular or trigonous, with a thick spongy coat 

 with a thin hard outer integument, tipped by the persistent conical 

 base of the style. 



Perennial herbs, Avith rigid radical and cauline leaves, generally 

 rough at the edges, and numerous small spikelets with brown 

 glumes. 



The derivation of tlie name of this genus is from K\acoc, a brancli or twig. 



SPECIES I.— C LABIUM MARISCUS. B.Br. 



Plate MDLXXX.* 



Be!ch. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. VHI. Tab. CCLXXXVII. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1347. 



G. Germanicum, Schrad. EiJm et Schultes, Syst. Veg. Vol. I. p. 284 

 ScLoenus Mariscus, Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. ed. i. No. 950. 



Stem terete, very indistinctly trigonous. Panicle erect, slender, 

 consisting of numerous lateral umbellato-corymbose panicles and a 

 terminal one. Spikelets collected into roundish heads. 



In fens and bogs. Very local. Widely scattered through England, 

 but very rare in Scotland, where it occurs at Ravenstone Loch, near 

 Whithorn, Wigtonshii'e ; and in a marsh by the roadside midway be- 

 tween Keylstrome and Badcal Church, Sutherland; formerly in the 

 Boo- of Restennet, Forfarshire, but is now lost there by drainage. 

 Frequent in the west of Ireland, but rare in the east. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer. 



Rootstock creeping. Stem 2 to 6 feet high, round beloAv, obscurely 

 trigonous above. Leaves 18 inches to 4 feet long, rigid, glaucous, the 

 radical ones with the sheaths brown at the base; the lamina channelled 

 at the base and keeled for the rest of their length ; points triquetrous, 

 glaucous and serrulate-scabrous, with the teeth pointing forwards on the 

 maro-ins and midrib. Stem leaves witli obliquely-truncate sheaths, the 

 lamina shorter than that of the root leaves. Panicle 9 inches to nearly 

 3 feet long ; primary bracts resembling the leaves, but becoming 

 shorter the higher they are placed on the rachis ; partial panicles race- 

 mosely arranged, stalked, with the stalk partially, or sometimes wholly, 

 included in tlae sheathing bract ; branches of the partial panicles simple 



• The dissections of the Ci/peracece, added in the present edition of " English Botany" 

 to the original plates, are mostly taken from drawings furnished by Dr. Carrington, 

 of Eccles. 



