2 EKGLISII ROTANY. 



jjroduccd beyond the cells; pollen-grains globose. Female flowers 

 "without a jaerianth, intermingled with subclavate hairs or surrounded 

 by 3 hypogynous scales : ovaries free or sometimes united in pairs, 

 sessile or stipitate, 1-celled and 1-ovuled; ovule pendulous from the 

 apex of the cell, anatropous; style simple; stigma unilateral, ligu- 

 late. Fruit subdrupaceous, membranous or spongy on the outside ; the 

 inner layer woody or coriaceous, and adhering to the seed. Seed with 

 a very slender membranous testa; albumen abundant and fleshy; 

 embryo straight, axial; radicle directed towards the hilum. 



GENUS /.— T Y P H A. Toumcf. 



Flowers monoecious, the male and female flowers in 2 separate spikes 

 one above the other, contiguous or slightly separated ; the male spike at 

 the apex, frequently with large deciduous bracts intermingled Avith the 

 flowers. Male flowers very numerous, without a perianth: stamens 1 to 

 6 ; filaments capillary, often monoecious, surrounded by a number of 

 bail's (sterile stamens ?) dilated at the apex. Female flowers without a 

 perianth: ovary slender, stalked, surrounded by numerous hairs (abor- 

 tive stamens?) ; style short; stigma simple, elongate, unilateral. Fruit 

 minute, longly stalked, dry, subdrupaceous, %vith a woody endocarp 

 and a membranous epicarp splitting lengthwise and separating from the 

 endocarp when the fruit is ripe. 



Aquatic plants with lorate-lLnear distichous leaves and bro^wn or 

 reddish spikes terminating the simple stem, both rising out of the 

 water. 



Dr. Withering says this genus of plants is the T\i<lir) of the ancient Greeks, from 

 Ti(i>or, a bog or marsh, this being the natural position of the species. (Thcophr. iv. 11 ; 

 Diosc. iii. 123.) 



SPECIES L— TYPHA LATIPOHA. Linn. 



Plate MCCCLXXXV. 



netoli. Ic. PI. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XI. Tab. CCCXXIII. Figs. 747 and 748. 

 BiUot, PL Gall, et Germ. Essicc. No. '2t)12. 



Leaves broadly linear, nearly flat, slightly glaucous. Male and 

 female spikes contiguous, the former generally with subfoliaceous de- 

 ciduous bracts. Female spike elongate, cylindrical, fuscous-brown in 

 fruit: stigma lanceolate-ligulate ; hairs of the axis of equal breadth 



throughout. 



Var. a, genuina. 



Leaves f to 1 inch broad. Male and female spikes continuous. 



