298 CTPERACEJ;. 



First record: Petiver, 1695. Z. jiedicellata, 'Er, Aoee not occur, but the 

 fruit in the Isle of Dogs specimens has usually a short stalk, and the 

 clusters of fruit are frequently found on a peduncle as long as the 

 carpels, which, however, are not winged, but have on their dorsal 

 margin from six to ten blunt prominences, which give to the profile a 

 crenato-dentate appearance. 



CYPERACEiE. 



[CYPEBUS, Lin7i. 

 722. C. fiiscus, L. 



Cyb. Br. iii. 61. Hook. Curt. vol. iv.* E. B. S. 2626.t Brit. Ent. ix. 

 t. 395 (all drawn from Middlesex specimens). 



Marshy meadows ; very rare. A. September. 

 VII. In some abundance on the sides of a ditch in a low marshy meadow 

 in Little Chelsea !, A. H. Haworth ; Hoolc. Curt. iv. This meadow 

 is usually caUed Eel-brook Meadow. The plant has been probably 

 seen there every year since its discovery up to 1865, though in 1836 

 it was said to be 'extinct' {Hook, in Smith's Cojrvpendium, 14), but 

 has varied in abundance. In 1856, Mr. Irvine could find but a 

 single plant ; in 1862 we collected about a score of small spesimens. 

 The meadow was drained in 1864 or 1865, and its present dry state 

 prevents damp-loving plants from growing there ; the spot will soon 

 be built over. 



First record : Haworth,,\ 1819 ; also first as a British plant. Last, about 

 1865. Still grows on Shalford Common, SuiTey.] 



ELEOCHAEIS, B. Br. 



923. E. palastrls, B. Br. Scirpus p., L. (L. Cat.). Club Bush. 



Juncus aqiiat. minor capit. Equiseti, Ger. em. (Blackst.). 

 Cyb. Br. iii. 75. Eeich. Ic. Germ, viii, 297. 

 Sides of ponds, wet meadows, &c. ; common. P. June, July. 

 I. BLarefield ; Blackst. Fasc. 46. Harrow Weald Common ; Melv. 83, 



Near Yewsley ! ; Newb. By Elstree Eeservoir. 

 II. Bushey Park ! ; Newb. Staines Common. Sunbury. 

 III. Hounslow Heath. 



• Not a characteristic specimen. 



t Syme B. B. cannot be quoted further. Throughout the Ci/peracece, the figures of 

 vol. viii. of Reichenbach's Jcones Fl. Germ, are referred to. 



X Adrian Hardy Haworth, of Collingham, Yorkshire, was the author of several works 

 on entomology, and also published Observations on the Genus Mesembryanthemum 1794 ; 

 Miscellanea Naturalia, &c., 1803 ; Synopsis Plant. Succulent., 1812 ; and Supplement, 1819 ; 

 Narcissearum Revisio, 1812 (a second edition, 1831) ; and Saxifragearum Enumeratio, 1821, 

 He Uved for some years at Little Chelsea near Eel-brook Meadow, and died there of 

 cholera, Aug. 24, 1833. Gray (Nat. Arr. vol. ii. 730) called this plant after him Cyperui 

 Haieorthii, 



