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Schce'rius.] cvi. cyperace^. 489 



JJ Bristles at length much longer than the glumes. 

 9. EiuoPHORUM. Bristles straight, at length silky. 



*** Flowers imperfect 



:siA. Spikelets aggregated, with a scale-like bractea at the 

 ,^ 1— 2-fiowered ; fertile flowers with a lateral glume. Terigy- 



10. KOBRESI 



base 



♦ nium 0. 

 11. Carex. Achene enclosed within an urceolate perigynium. 



* Flowers perfect Glumes of each spikelet imhricated in two 



opposite rows. Perigynium 0, 



1. Cyperus Linn. Cyperus or Galingale. 



Spikelets many-flowered. Glumes keeled, inibricated In 2 

 opposite rows, mostly fertile, equal. Hypogynous bristles 0. 

 Style not dilated at the base, 2 — S-cleft, deciduous. Achene 

 often tipped with the small base of the style. — Named from 

 KVTiupoQ of the Greeks, an appellation given to one of this genus, 

 probably from the flowers being the colour of the KVTtpioQ 



xahcoQ^ or copper. 



1 



) 



lanceolate erecto-patent in doubly compound umbels, general 

 .involucre very long leafy, partial small, stem triangular, stig- 

 mas 3. E. B. t. 1309. 



Very rare. Marsh near St. David's, Pembrokeshire ; Walton-in- 

 Gordan, Somersetshire; near Seabrooke, Kent; Boyton,- Wilts ; 

 Penzance, Cornwall; Isle of Wight. Guernsey^ and Jersey. 2/.. 

 8, 9. — Hoot creeping, very aromatic and astringent, 



2. *C. fuscus L. (brown C.) ; spikelets linear-lanceolate 

 fascicidato-corymbose, glumes patent, involucre of 3 unequal 

 leaves, stem triangular, stigmas 3. JE. B. S. t. 2626. 



Eel Brook meadow, Little Chelsea, near Walham Green ; Peat- 

 pond on Shalworth common, 2 miles from Godalming, plentiful; 

 (ilf Codhill bog, Grusbro moor, Yorkshire. T/.. 8, 9. — A small plant, 



only a few inches high. Root fibrous. Of the genus Cyperus about 

 370 species are described or noticed in Kunth's Enumeration some of 

 which are, no doubt, mere varieties. Most of them are tropical : they 

 gradually diminish in number as we recede from the tropics ; §o that 

 , though 2 species have been found in England, none exists in Scotland. 



2. Sch(e'nus Linn. Bog-rush. 



Spikelets 1 — 4-flowered. Glumes 6 — 9, imbricated in 2 op- 

 posite rows, lower ones smaller, empty, Hypogynous bristles 

 3—6, small or none. Style not dilated at the base, 3-fid, deci- 

 duous. Achene trigonous, tipped with the slender base of the; 



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