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style, or pointless. — Name : from rrxoivoc, a cord, because a 

 kind of cordage was anciently made from plants of this tribe. 



1. S. nigricans L. (MackB.); stem rounded, spikelets col- 



Wet moors cind boggy places. 



4. Ehtnchospoka VahL Beak-rusb. 



Spikelets few-flmvered. Glumes 6—7, imbricated on all sides, 

 the lower ones smaller, empty. Hypogjjnous bristles several, 

 in eluded, toothed. Style subulate, bifid, dilated at the base. 

 Achene crowned with the peristent, more or less articulated, 

 d dated base of the style . —1^ amad from pvyxoQ, a leak, and 

 (T 7r opa , a seed. (Very difierent in habit from Eleocharis, although 

 near m generic character.) 



CVI. CYPERACE^. [Clddiuni 



lected into a rounded head shorter than the outer bracteas I 'u f 



glumes scabrous at the keel. E.B.i.l\2\. ' ' ' - 





West coast. 2^. 6, 7. — Remarkable for its rigid habit, nearlyV \[W^^^\ 



taceous leaves, and the dark brown almost black heads ol floivers 'in*'* 



The style is jointed upon the germen and darker than it. « Bristle's i ««''''^ 



small, 3—5, reddish-brown, spiny, the spines pointino; upwards:" - ki'f\ 



Mr. Wilson. On account of the bristles this is allied to Mr. Brown's ' ' '* 

 genus Chaitospora, in which indeed Kunth places it. 



** Flowers perfect. Glumes of each spihelet imbricated on all 



sides. Perigyniitm 0. 



3. CiiAt>iuM Schrad. Tvvi<x-rusli. 



^Spikelets 1— 2-flowerecL Glumes 5—Q, imbricated on all Ija-Ha 



sides, the lower ones empty and smaller. Stijle with a conical jiieaisofi 



base, deciduous. Achene with a soraevrhat loose, fleshy, or \mpu^ 



corky coat, tipped with the ovate-conical but not jointed base I bribed or 



of the style. Hypogynoiis bristles none. — N"amed from kXciSoq, Ut W^'^' 



a branch; so called, perhaps, from the many branches bearino- letter 



spikelets. , o i 



1. C. Mariscus Bv. (prickly T.) ; panicle much divided 

 leafy,^ spikelets capitato-conglomerate, stem rounded leafy, 

 margins of the leaves and keel rough. Schoenus X. ; E. B. 

 t. 950. * . 



Boggy and fenny places, in several parts of England, as in Norfolk, 

 Cambridge, Kent, Cheshire, Askem in Yorkshire, &c. Plentiful in 



Galloway and Sutherlandshire, Scotland. %. 7, 8 Plant 3—5 ft. 



high, leafy. Leaves rough, almost prickly at the margin and keel. 

 Glumes ovate, brown, 6—7 in an ovate spihelet ; inner ones the longest, 

 generally the two or sometimes three innermost ones are floriferous; 

 of which one (" sometimes 2, more rarely all :*' JVilson) bears a 

 coated nut, almost as large as the spikclet. Stigmas generally two, 

 sometimes cloven : Wilson. 



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