MONOECIA DIANDRIA. ry.V) 



Black-Lcchj at the top of the pan(h ot I'lniva^d^ 

 and in many other places and ftagnani: waters. 

 Dr. Burgefs, i;, VI L 

 1 he flalk is fix feet high : the leaves a yard lone;, 

 hardly an inch wide, convex on one fide: the 

 Amentum, or cylindrical club, which terminates 

 the flalk, is about fix inches long, of a dark. 

 ■ ' brown or fulcous colour- 



Cattle will fometimes eat the leaves, but ^chreher 

 thinks them noxious : the roots have fometimes 

 been eaten in fallads, and the down of the /Imen- 

 tum ufed to ftuff mattrefies and cuOilons : and 

 Linnaeus informs us, that the leaves are ufed by 

 the coopers in S'wcden to bind the hoops of their 

 ; - calks. In England the coopers ufe the ftalks of 



the Scirpus lacuftris, or Bull-ruOi, to fallen the 

 joints of the timber m the heads of their cafks. 

 One ftalk opened longitudinally, and laid be- 

 : tween each jundure, anfwers the intention, as 



■ ' it prevents the oozing of the liquor through it. 



SPARGANIUM. G^;/. /)/. 1041, 



MASC. Amentum fubrotundum. Cal. 3-phyllus, 



Cor. o 

 jFEM. Amentum fubrotundum. Cal 3-phyllus. 

 ' '- • ■ Cor. o. Stigina 2-hdum. 



Drupa exfucca, i-fpernia. 



tre^tum. I. SPARGANIUM foliis eredis triquetris. Sp. j,^^ 

 1378 {Ger. em. 45. /. i. Pet. herb. t. 72./. 9, 



Morii^ 



