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C. JUNCAGINACE^ 



{^Scheuchzeria 



inserted near the base of the sepals : anthers^\mo,t sessile 

 Ovaries 3— 6-celled. Stigmas 3- « --^^--i- •• _f>t-ssue. 



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6, sessile, plumose. 



6, l-seeded, united by a longitudinal receptacle, from whiel 

 they usually separate at the base. ^^^MmmO.— Flowers Ji 

 naked straight spike or raceme. -ISaxnQ^ from rpug three La 

 yXujxiQ, ^ point; from the three points or valves of the cansule. 

 in the common species. i"=^^<.?, 



E ^B^'t fet"^' ^' ^^""'^ ^'^ ' ^™'^ ^-^^^^^^ nearly linear. 



Wet meadovrs and by the sides of rivers and ditches in marshy 

 Situations, plentiful. %. 6—8. '' — .~--n..-j= , .. "wsny 



,. - • • ^ea2;es- all radical, linear, fleshv 



slightly grooved on the upper side, sheathing and membranous at the 



base. Scane 8—10 inches high, terminating in a lax, simple spike or 



raceme. i^fo,^ers small, greenish. Capsules 3, linear, united by a com 

 mon receptacle, so as to form a solitary 3-celled fruit, each cell sepa- 

 rating at its base, and suspended by the extremity, containin-r one 

 seed, and not dehiscent. _ Mr. W. Wilson finds that the leaves, when 

 bruised, yield a very fetid smell, and that the root, under certain 

 circumstances at least, is a creeping one, sending out jointed scaly 

 runners, with comparatively large, ovate, shortly acuminated bulbs at 

 the extremity : these bulbs, at the end of the jointed runners, have 

 very much the appearance of a scorpion's tail. 



\^: ^.f'^^'^'''^ ^- {Sea-side A.); fruit 6-ceIled ovate. 



Salt-marshes, not unfrequent. %. 5 9. 



Larger than the last 



and stouter, differing essentially in Its fructification, which is formed 

 of 6 combined capsules, constituting a broadly ovate fruit, not sepa- 

 rating and suspended by their summits, as in T. palustre. Even 

 when in flower the same form is observable in the germen as after- 

 wards in the fruit. 



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2. ScHEucHZERiA Zm7«. Schcuchzerla. 



^ Perianth single, somewhat petaloid, of 6 reflexed leaves • the 

 inner ones narrower. Stamens 6. Filaments slender. Anthers 

 erect elongated. Ovaries Z. ^^z^-ma« sessile, papillose. Cap- 

 sules 3, inflated, 2-valved, l_2.seeded. Albumen O.-Flowers 

 racemedwith a hractea at the base of their stalks.— ^med hi 

 honour of the three Scheuchzers, Swiss botanists. 



1. S. palustris L. {Marsh S.) E. B. t. 1801. 



In a marsh at Lakeby Car, near Boroughbridge ; Thome Moor, 

 near Doncaster; Bomerepool, near Shrewsbury. Methven, near 



r V ■ 1 ■ , ,~ si"gular and very rare plant, having few semi- 

 cylindrica, slender, rush-like leaves; and a scape with large hradeas, 

 terminated by a raceme of greenish flowers. Perianth and staw.ens re- 

 Hexed. GermensS, ovate, obtuse, with lateral, linear, downy stigmas. 

 Capsules singularly inflated. 



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1. 



U, 1, or 



^ ireige-sliape 

 lairs, either 

 Xamed from 



1. T. M] 



aacous, ste 



O.t. 145. 



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