C6 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



the 3 inner erect. Anthers sessile, purplish, lyin.o; in the concavity of 

 the perianth segments. Fruit ycllowisli-olive, erect, applied to the 

 stem, 1 to I inch long; carpels attenuated into a narrow base, the 3 

 carpels separated by slight furrows, and when they fall leaving a 

 triquetrous columella. Plant bright green. 



Marsh Arrowgrass. 

 French, Troscart des marais. German, Suinpf Drcizack. 



THs plant is common in wet meadows, and in marshy situations generally. 



SPECIES n.— TRIGLOCHIN M ARITIMUM. Linn. 

 Plate MCCCCXXXW. 

 Eeich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. VII. Tab. LII. Figs. 92 and 93. 



Rootstock of numerous slender bulbs growing in a circle, adhering 

 to a common rhizome, without elongated runners. Leaves in CEespitose 

 tufts, semicylindi'ical, flattened above, flat towards the apex. Scabies 

 more or less curved up to the point where the flowers commence, then 

 erect, longer than the leaves. Fruit oblong-ovoid, splitting into 6 

 cocca; cocca truncate at the base. 



In salt marshes and meadows, and by the sides of ditches by the 

 sea. Common, and generally distributed along the coast. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial, Summer, Autumn. 



A stouter and more fleshy plant than T. palustre, and of a paler 

 green colour, with the leaf-tufts forming, by the sheathing bases of the 

 leaves, small fusiform bulbs, which are aggregated and often very 

 numerous in old plants. Leaves 3 to 18 inches long, with more dilated 

 sheathing bases than in T. palustre, and ■with the free part of the 

 adnate stipules which form the sheath longer than in that plant. Scape 

 6 inches to 3 feet high, stout, often more than one produced in succes- 

 sion from each leaf-tuft, the lower part as well as the leaves curving 

 slightly, with the convexity turned towards the outside of the tussock 

 formed by the union of the leaf-tufts. Flowers similar in appearance 

 to those of T. palustre, but larger and closer together. Raceme dense 

 both in flower and fruit. Pedicels much shorter than the perianth, 

 and also shorter than the fruit, ascending. Fruit olive-yellow, when 

 fully ripe scarcely \ inch long, with 6 carpels, which separate readily 

 from the columella, and do not remain for some time suspended by 

 theu" apex as in T. palustre. Plant pale green, somewhat glaucous. 



Seaside Arrowgrass. 

 French, Troscart maritime. German, Meerstrands Breizack. 



