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the Rev. G. E. Smith on a mud flat at Lymington, Hants, but pro- 

 bably now extinct there, as Mr. Borrer and Dr. Bromfield were 

 unable to find it. The latter believes that " the exact place where the 

 plant grew is now occupied by a rectangular reservoir for the supply of 

 the baths." The Rev. G. E. Smith writes, " The plant grows in a 

 pit dug out of the sandy bank, about 20 feet long by nearly the same 

 breadth, and about 6 feet deep : in the bottom of this pit the S. par- 

 vulus grew in company with S. Savii." Found in July 18G8 by 

 Mr. A. G. More on soft mud overflowed at high tide, in salt marsh 

 creeks at the mouth of the River Ovoca, coast of Wicklow, Irehind. 



England (extinct ?), Ireland. Perennial. Autumn. 



Plant growing in small tufts, with translucent, loosely cellular 

 recurved stems, 1 to 2 inches high ; many of these stems are barren 

 and have been erroneously described as radical leaves. Spike yV to -\ 

 inch long. Anthers much longer than the filaments. In all the fresh 

 specimens I have examined I find only three bristles, as Mr. More 

 describes them. The mature nut I have not seen, the numerous living 

 specimens kmdly forwarded to me by Mr. A. G. More being all in 

 flower. I have the plant in cultivation from the Irish station, but 

 though it flowers freely, it does not fruit. 



Least Club-rush. 



German, Kleine Simse. 



Section III.— (H)ELEOGITON. Link. 



Spike solitary, at the extremity of axillary peduncles, without a 

 leafy bract at the base, Hypogynous bristles absent. Nut not crowned 

 ■with a tubercle. Stems slender, leafy. Leaves shortly sheathmg. 



SPECIES VII.-S CI RP US FLUITANS. Linn. 



Plate MDXCn. 



Beieh. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. VIII. Tab. GCXCVIII. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2558. 



(H)Eleogiton fluitans, Link, Hort. Berol. Vol. I. p. 284. 



Isolepis fluitans, B. Br. Kunth, Enum. Plant. Vol. II. p. 188. Sooh. & Am. Brit. 



Fl. ed. viii. p. 492. 

 Dichostylis fluitans, Pal. de Beauv. Beieh. Fl. Germ. Excnrs. p. 75. 

 (H)Eleocharis fluitans, Hook. Brit. Fl. ed. v. p. 418. 



Stems floating, branched, -with alternate shortly sheathing linear 

 leaves. Peduncles axiUary and terminal. Spike solitary, very small, 

 ovate-fusiform, 3- to 5-flowered. Glumes ovate, obtuse, whitish- 

 pellucid, with green midribs; lowest glume fertile, broadly green on 



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