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HE flower is compofed of a fix-leaved cup, with the filaments and rudiment of 4 feed-veftel 
The leaves of the cup are oblong, fharp-pointed, and permanent. 
divided into three parts. 
1. Scirpi without leaves. 
1. Pricking, large Sea-Ruth; 
Funcus acutus capitulis forghi. 
The root is compofed of innumerable fibres, 
interwoven in a ftrange manner with one an- 
other. 
The ftalk is two feet high, firm, hard, of a 
pale green, and prickly at the top. 
The flowering heads are brown ; and they ftand 
cluflered together. 
It is common by the fea-fide, flowering in 
June. 
We have twelve other fpecies, including what 
are called rufb-graffes. 
The reader will fee, by the different ftructure 
of the flowers, how very improperly the junci’ 
and /cirpi are called in Englifh by the common 
name r/o. We have in this enumeration re- 
tained the names by which they are defcribed in 
the works of our own writers, as it is under them 
they are familiarly known: but the judicious 
reader will fee from their place to which head 
they properly belong. 
Were the purpofe here fole curiofity, a vo- 
Jume might be employed on the graffes alone; 
but we hope to convey a juft idea of the fpecies 
of thefe, and the.other lefs ufeful plants, by thefe 
enumerations, without fwelling the volume be- 
yond the intended fize. 
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The feed-veffel is large, and 
2. Englifh Sea Hard Ruth, Faneus acutss mari< 
timus Anglicus. The ftalk folid, and two 
feet high. 
3. Common Hard Ruth, Fuucus acutis vulgaris. 
The ftalk hard, ftriated, and Prickly at the 
top. 
4. Common foft Ruth, Funcus Levis vulgaris, 
The ftalk foft and fpungy. ? 
5: Soft Ruth, with a compact panicle, Fun- 
cus levis panicula compaéia, The ftalk is 
ftriated. ee 
6. Long-top’d Ruth, Furicus parvus calamo fupra 
paniculum longius produéfo. eh 
2; Rufbess with leaves. 
7. Mofs Rufh, or Goofe-corn, Juncus montanus 
palufiris, The leaves fpread on the ground 
as rays. 
8. Small Ruth grafs, with jointed leaves, Funcus 
foliis articulofis floribus umbellatis. — : 
g. Wood Rufh grafs; or great Ruth grafs, with 
jointed leaves; Funcus nemorofus folio articu- 
lato. The heads brown. 
1o. Rufh grafs, with round feed-veffels, Funcis 
parvus pericarpiis rotundis. 
_ur. The leaft triangular-feeded Ruth grafs, Fun- 
cus capfulis triangulis minimus, 
12. Toad-Grafs, Juncus paluftris bumilior erefus. 
The ftalk is branched, and four inches 
high. 
13. Dwarf Toad-grafs, Gramen juncoides minimum 
Anglo-Britanicum: ‘The heads oval. 
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HE cup is fotmed of three hollow, oval, obtufe leaves. The flower is formed of three petals, 
of a pale colour, and refembling them in fhape. The feed-veffel is oval; and large. 
Linnzeus places this among the hexandria. 
1. Common Arrow Grafs, 
Triglochin vulgare. 
The root is compofed of numerous fibres. 
The leaves are narrow, numerous, and of a 
fine green. 
The ftalk is a foot high, and the flowers ter- 
minate it in a long and flender fpike. 
N° 50. 
Tt is common in falt-marfhes, and flowers in 
June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Gramen junceum fpicatum 
five Triglochin. 
2, Sea fpiked Grafs, Gramen maritimum fpica- 
tum. Small, and with very numerous, nar- 
row leaves. 
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