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E. B. 543. St. 13. 3. R. viii. 310, 311.— Creeping, sometimes 

 tuberous. St. 1 — 3 feet highi, leafy. Spikes large, sometimes 

 solitary. Stigmas 3, or rarely 2.— Salt marshes. P. VII. 



E. S. I. 



3. S. syhat'icus (L.) ; spikes clustered in a large cymose very 

 compound terminal panicle, clusters stalked and sessUe, general 

 bracts several leaflike, gl. blunt apioulate, nut obovate bluntly 

 trigonous.— £. JB. 919. St. 36. 8. S. viii. 313.— St. 2—3 feet 

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

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

 apiculate, stoles long and rooting, may possibly be found.] — 

 Damp vroods and banks. P. VII. E. S. I. 



3. S. triguHei- (L.) ; st. acidely triquetrous throughout, spike- 

 lets in a small cymose panicle, gl. notched muoronate glabrous 

 fringed with rounded blunt lobes, nut " roundish-obovate plane- 

 convex smooth."— .B. B. 1694. St. 36. 3. R. viii. 305.— St. 

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

 base, the uppermost ending in a short broad triquetrous leaf. 

 Lower bract long and rigid, resembling a prolongation of the 

 stem. Spikelets small, stalked and sessile. Anth. with a short 

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

 London; the Arun, Sussex; and the Tamer near Calstock. 

 ComwaU. P. VIIL E. 



[jS. pun' gens (Vahl) ; st. acutely triquetrous throughout, 

 spikelets few sessile, gl. notched mucronate smooth with acute 

 lobes, nut roundish-obovate plane-convex smooth. — E. B. 8. 

 2819. R. viu. 804. 8. Rothii Hoppe? St. 36. 4. St. 6— 

 18 in. high, slender ; with several sheaths at the base ending in 

 long narrow keeled leaves. Lower bract ver;f long and rigid, re- 

 semb ing a prolongation of. the stem. Spikelets large, ovate, 

 blunt, aU sessile. Anth. with a subulate fringed point. Stig- 

 mas 2.— St. Ouen's Pond, Jersey. P. VI. VIL] 



4. 8. carindtus (Sm.) ; si. terete below bluntly trigonous up- 

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

 slightly asperous and pilose fringed, nut "convex on the back 

 smooth."— .B. B. 1983. S. Duvallii Hoppe, St. 36. 2. R. viii. 

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

 the uppermost ending in a 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. B. 



6. S. lacus'tris (L.) ; st. terete, spikes in a terminal twice- 

 compound panicle, gl. notched mucronate glabrous fringed, nut 

 bluntly trigonous obovate, stigmas 3. — E. B. 666. St. 36. 1. R. 

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



