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setaceous lamina. Spikes 2 or 1 (rarely 3), pseudo-lateral, sessile 

 or subsessile, ovate-ovoid, as lon2; as or shorter than the foliaceous 

 bract, which resembles a continuation of the stem. Glumes obtuse, 

 olive or greenish, usually striped with dark I'cddish-brown between 

 the midrib and margins. Stigmas 3. Hypogynous bristles absent. 

 Nut roundish-turbinate, bluntly trigonous, mucronate, dark brown, 

 shining, finely puuctate-striate. 



Var. a, genuiniis. 



1. Saviana, Kunth, Enum. Plant. Vol. II. ]>. 193. 



Spikelets 2 or 3. Lowest bract usually longer than the spikelet. 



Var. 0, monostachys. 

 Isolepis pygmfea, Kunth, Enum. Plant. Vol. IT. p. 191. 



Spikelet solitary, often as long as the outer bract. 



In wet places, especially near the sea. Local. Common in the 

 south and west of England and south-west of Scotland ; from the Isle 

 of Wight to Cornwall ; and from thence north to Argyleshire. Gene- 

 rally distributed roimd the coast of Ireland. Var. 0, not uncommon 

 in the same localities as the type. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial, (" Annual," 5a6.) Summer, 



Autumn. 



Stems numerous, very slender and weak, spreading in all directions, 

 2 to 9 inches high, each -with a basal sheath which is reddish below, 

 and terminates in a lamina from ^ to 3 inches long. Bracts unequal, 

 the lowest one as long as or a little longer than the spikes, rarely 

 much longer, generally under \ mch long, although I have seen it 

 quite 1 inch ; inner bract always shorter than the spikelets. Spikes J 

 to \ inch long, sessile, one above the other ; but as the lower glumes 

 fall off before the others and leave the rachis naked, the spikelets 

 appear to be stalked late in the season. Glumes roundish-ovate, 

 variable in coloiu-, sometimes wholly green and olive, at other times 

 with broAvn separate or confluent stripes between the green midrib 

 and margin, most conspicuous towards the apex. Nut about J,, inch, 

 pale brown, bluntly compressed-triquetrous, mthout e\adent longitu- 

 dinal furrows. 



Savi's Club-rush. 



French, Scirpe de Savi. German, Nadelformiges Eied, 



