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The flower is compofed of fix 
valves, which are oblong and convergent : they are placed in an imbricated manner, and the 
outer ones are fmalleft. 
1: Long Cyperus. 
Cyperus longus odoratus. 
The root.is irregular, and.oblong. 
The leaves are long, broad, fharp, and of a 
fine green, 
The ftalk is firm, upright, and of a paler 
green ; and at its top there ftand numerous tufted 
{pikes, compofed of little ears, on feparate fpread- 
ing footftalks : thefe are of a fine glofly brown. 
We have it by pond-fides. It flowers in 
June. 
_ C. Bauhine calls it Cyperus odoratus radice longa. 
The root is diuretick and deobftruent. 
We have, befide this, five fpecies of true cy- 
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perus, though fome of them called only eyperus 
graffes. : 
2. Marfh Cyperus, with a f{cattered panicle, Cy. 
perus palufiris panicula fparfa, The fpikes 
very fhort. : 
3. Round-rooted Baftard Cyperus, Cyperus rotun.. 
dus litoreus inodorus. The leaves very broad 
and pale. 
4. Long-rooted Baftard Cyperus, Cyperus longus 
inodorus Jylvefiris. The ftalk of this is 
round. 
5. Millet Cyperus, Cyperus gramineus miliaceus. 
The ftalk three fquare, and the leaves nar- 
row. 
6. Small, round Cyperus, Cyperus paluftvis biz firs 
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ene flowers are cluftered together, in fingle or divided heads ; and are feparated one from an- 
other by fmall, oval, plain, but formewhat bent leaves. 
the filaments, which rife at. the bafes of thefe {fcales. 
cornered. 
There is no part of a flower, except 
The feeds are fingle, large, and three- 
Linnzus places this among the ¢riandria ; the filaments, which ina manner conftitute the flower 
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being three. 
t. The Bullrufh. 
Scirpus paluftris altifiimus. 
The root is compofed of innumerable thick 
fibres, : eS 
The ftalk is green, thick, a yard high, and 
fpungy. 
It is ufually furrounded at the bafe by a brown- 
ifh membrane, and tip’d with brown at the top 5 
a little below the fummit burft forth the fowers ; 
they are fmall, brown, and forming a loofe panicle. 
Tt is common in waters, flowering in June. 
_C. Bauhine calls it Juncus maximus. 
’ We have twelve other kinds. 
1. Naked Scixpi. 
1. The Leffer Bullruth, Funcus five Scirpus medius. 
Two feet high, fmooth, and with a flender 
ftalk. ; 
2. Fluted Ruth, Yuncus aquaticus medius caule ca- 
rinato. The colour a pale bluith green, 
3» Three-fquare Ruth, Yuncus acutus maritimts 
caule triquetro maximo molli procerior, A very 
tall plant: 
4. Leffler prickly Sea-Ruth, Funcus acuity; wmari- 
timus caule triquetro nucerone pungente, 
5. Round clufter-headed Sea-Ruth, Scirpus ma- 
ritimus capitulis rotundioribus conglomeratis. 
6. Club Ruth, or aglet-headed Ruh, Scirpus 
equifeli capitulo majori. Common in brooks. 
7 The leaft upright Club Ruhh, Scirpus minimus 
capitulis equifeli. The ftalk not thicker than 
a large briftle. 
2. Scirpi with leaves. 
8. Dwarf Ruth, with {mall aglet heads, Scirpus 
montanus capitulo breviori. In hilly paf- 
tures. 
9. Round, black-headed Marth Roth, Funcus 
levis minor capitulo glomerato nigricante. ° 
10. The leat Ruth, Scirpus foliaceus humilis, 
Common in damp places, where the foil is 
poor. 
11. Marfh Ruth Grafs, with fleawort heads, 
Scirpus equifeli capitulo minore. In watery 
places. 
12. Many-headed leafy Ruth, Gramen junceum 
polyftachion. The panicle very loofe and 
fcattered, : 
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