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6, glabrous. Stigmas 3. Nut oblong-obovate, triquetrously concavo- 

 convex, acuminated into the slender subulate base of the style. 

 On heaths. Common, and universally distributed. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 



Very densely casspitose, growing in roundish very compact tufts. 

 Stems slender, 2 inches to 1 foot long, the centre ones erect, the outer 

 ones ascending or drooping. Spikes | to } inch long; the lowest 

 gknne with a green point, which sometimes extends considerably 

 beyond the spike. Hypogynous bristles at length considerably longer 

 than the nut. Nut dark brown, about -y'j inch long, exclusive of the 

 mucro formed by the base of the style. 



Remarkable for the numerous sheaths which surround the base of 

 the stems, and for the uppermost sheaths terminating in a short leaf, 

 which is from J- to I inch long. 



Late in the autumn the outer glumes fall off and leave the long 

 bristles exposed. 



Scaly-stemmed Club-rush. 



French, Scirjpe gazonnant. German, Basensimse. 



SPECIES VI.— S CIRPUS PARVULUS. liom. & Schultes. 



Plate MDXCI. 



Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. VIII. Tab. CCXCIX. Fig. 706. 



A. G. More, in Seemann's Journ. Bot. 1868, p. 321. 



S. humilis, Walh: Sched. Crit. p. 27. 



Bffiothryon iianum, Dietr. Spec. Plant. Vol. II. p. 91. 



(H)Eleocliaris parvula. Hook. Brit. Fl. ed. v. p. 418. 



(H)E]eogiton parvula. Link, Hort. Berol. Vol. I. p. 285. 



Limnochloa parvula, Beich. Fl. Germ. Excurs. p. 78. 



Rootstock capillary, creeping, producing tufts of stems separate from 

 the parent plant, and also stoloniferous ; the stolons capillary and 

 terminating in a minute oblong-cylindrical beaked bulb. Stems 

 several, erect (?) and ascending-recurved, slender, subcompressed-terete, 

 smooth, leafless ; basal sheath 1, very short, formed of the scale of the 

 above-mentioned bulb, without any lamina. Spike very small, ovate- 

 fusiform, 3- to 5-flowered. Glumes ovate, subacute, whitish-pellucid, 

 with green midribs ; lowest glume barren, broadly green on the back, 

 not longer than the others, two-thirds to three-quarters the length of 

 the spike, the base of which it entirely suri'ounds, not hooded on the 

 back, vnih the midrib not extending to the apex. Hypogynous 

 bristles " 4 to 6 " (Kunth) or 3 (A, G. More), retrorsely hispid. 

 Stigmas 3. Nut "obovate, trigonous, smooth" (J.. G. More). 



In soft mud by the sea. Very local. Discovered in Britain by 



