372 96. cTEBRACKm. 



and a point betweeji them, nut obovate trigonous sinootli. — 

 K B. 542. St. 13. 3. R. viii. 310, 311.— Creeping, sometimes 

 tuberous. '. 8t, 1 — 3 feet high, leafy. ; Spikes large, sometimes 

 solitary. Stigmas 3, or rarely 2- — Salt marshes. P. VII. E. S. I. 



2. iS si/hat'icus' (h.) ; spikes clustered in a large cyniose very 

 compound terminal panicle, clusters stalked and sessile, general 

 bracts several leaflike, gl. blunt apiculate, nut obovate bluhtlv 

 trigonous.— -E. S. 919. St. 36. 8. H. viii. 313.- St. 2—3 feet 

 high. Spikes very many, small, greenish, ovate. L. broad, flat. 

 Stigmas 3. — [S. radicans (Schk.)-, spikes all stalked, glumes not 

 ftpiculate, stoles long and rooting, may possibly be fouid.]— " 

 Damp -sypoda and bank?., P. VII. , , E. S. I, 



■ 3. S: triqtieUr (L.); «<. a&dely .triqMetr(ntS thronghcmt, mike- 

 lets in a stilall cymqse panicle, gl. notched miicrouate glabrous 

 friirged with rounded blunt lobes, niit " roundish-obovate plane- 

 convex smooth."— ^: 5. 1694. St. 36. 3; iJ. viii, 305.— St. 

 3—4 feet high, with concave faces ; 1 or 2 long shefithfe at the 

 base, the uppermost- ending in a short hrodd triquetrous leaf. 

 Lower bract long and rigid, resembling a prolongation, of the 

 stem. Spikelets small, stalked" and sessile. . Anfh. with a short 

 beardless point. Stignifis 2. — Muddy banks of the Thames near 

 London: the Arun, Sussex jiand the Tamer hear Calstock, Com- 

 waE. P. VIIL , , ^,: ' ' , ' , ^ E. 



\_S. pun' gens (yshSi); st. acutely triquetrous throughout, spike- 

 lets few sessile, gl. notched mucronate smooth with acute lobes, 

 nut roundish-obovate plane-convex smooth. — H. £. S. 2819. 

 JR. viii. 304. St. 36. 4.— St. from 6— 18in. high, slender,; with 

 several sheaths at the. base ending in lo?u/ narrow keeled leaves. 

 Lower bract very long and rigid, r.esembling a prolongation, of 

 the ste,m. Spikelets large, ovate, blunt, all sessile. Anth. with 

 a subulate friaged point. Stigmas 2. — St. Ctien's Pond, Jersev. 

 P. VI VII.] ' ' ^: 



4. \S. carindtus (Sm.) ; st. round below' bluntly trigonous up- 

 wards, spikes in a small cymoae panicle, gl. notched mucronate 

 slightly asperous' and. pilose fringed, nut " cinvex on the back 

 smooth."— .B. A 1983. S. Duvalli «. 30. 2. iJ. viii. 308.— 

 St. 2 — 4 feet high; with 1. 'or 2 long^ sheaths at the base, the 

 uppermost ending in 3, leaf 3 or 4. in. long. Lower bract much 

 overtopping the panicle. Stigmas 2. — By rivers, near London 

 and in Sussex and Kent. , P. VI. VII. " E. 



5. S. lacus'tris (L.) ; st. ter.ete, .spikes in a terminal twice- 

 compound panicle, gl. notched mrioronate gUhrous fringed, nut 

 hhmtly.trigoiwiis obovate, stigmas 3. — E. B..' QQQi St. 36. 1. S. 

 yiii. 306.— Far-creeping. 1 St 4—6 feet high, naked ; with 1 or 



