530 TYPHACE^. [Typha. 



In slow streams, rivers, ponds, ditches and watery pits, in various places. Fl. 

 Julv, August. H.. 



E. Med.—khoM Ryde, rare. In a liltle pool near Beaperfarm. In the brook 

 between St. Jolin's and Little Smallbrook farm, sparingly, 1844. In the upper 

 pond at Knigliton house, plentiCully. Little pool between Stapler's heath and the 

 farm. In the stream both above and below Horring-furd bridge, and flowering 

 freely. In a little pool under the cliff at Foreland, Dr. BM-Salter. 



W. Med. - By tlie Medina at Shide bridge, abundantly. Marsh below Caris- 

 brooke castle. By the great pond near the church in the grounds at Gatcombe. 

 Marsh-dilches at "Gurnet bay, with the following species. Plentiful and very 

 large in the pond by Kingston copse. Near the western arm of the Newtown 

 river, with the next.' In the clay-pit at Squire's brickfield, at Ningwood, 1845. 

 Abi'ut the Medina and Yar, in plenty, Mr. SnookeH! 



The spikes of this species are employed, it is said (Loudon's Mag. vi. p. 367), 

 by the weavers of Spitalfields, &c., for cleaning their work, and are also sold to 

 the poor as a cheap but efficient hat-bru.sh. 



The species of Typha, like many other marsh-plants, have a very wide range 

 over the globe. I have observed T. latifolia growing abundantly on the swampy 

 shores of Morant Bay, in Jamaica, where however it appeared slightly to differ 

 from ihe European type in its greater height and comparative slenderness, as also 

 in the greener less glaucous colour of the leaves and more attenuated catkins. 

 The West-Indian plant may possibly be a distinct species. 



2. T. an gusti folia, L. Lesser Reed-mace or Cat's-tail. Leaves 

 linear convex below concave above, sterile and fertile catkins a 

 little apart, barren florets seated amidst chaffy scales. Br. Fl. p. 

 460. E. B. t. 1456. 



jS. Leaves very narrow, scarcely half their usual width. 



In similar places with the last ; the more common of the two with us, especially 

 in old clay-pits. Fl. July. If. 



E. Med. — Pond between Wootton bridge and King's quay, with the preceding 

 species. In a wet wood near Alverstone called Bordwood or Borthwick lynch. 

 Slipped land below the cliffs at Luccomb. 



W. Med. — In marsh-meadow ditches at Gurnet bay, plentiful but rarely flower- 

 ing. Almost filling a pool surrounded by wood near Cockleton farm, W. Cowes, 

 nearly 8 feet high and flowering abundantly. Liltle pool at Pallance gate, flower- 

 ing freely. Pool between Great Thorness and Elmsworth farms, with Myriophyl- 

 lum alterniflorum. Pool close to the rectory at Shalfleet. Extremely common 

 in pools and watery pits on the heathy ground about the western side of the New- 

 town river. 



0. In vast abundance and flowering freely in some old clay-pits on a rough 

 heathy waste a little E. of Cranmore farm, near Yarmouth, and adjoining Ning- 

 wood common, as also in another piece of heathy ground near the western arm of 

 the Newtown river, along with T. latifolia. Abimdant but not flowering in aban- 

 doned clay-pits in the brickfield at Lower Hampslead. 



Often as tall as the preceding, but much smaller, narrower and more slender in 

 all its parts. Stem, round, simple, erect, smooth. Leaves very long and narrow, 

 almost semicylindrical at ihe base, gradually becoming flatter towards the point, 

 where they are quite plane, very smooth on both sides and along their edges. 

 Barren spike terminal, as long as the fertile one, yellowish or snuff-coloured. 

 Fertile spike placed at an interval of about an inch below the barren, of a darker 

 brown colour. Filaments seated amid thin, chaffy, torn scales, various in size ; 

 anthers yellowish, with dark tips, twisted; pollen sulphur-yellow. Fertile florets 

 stalked, their pedicels springing from a greenish, conical, mamillary base. 



The var. /3. differs in no respect from the usual state of the species, excepting 

 in the narrowness of the leaves, which are scarcely ^rd of an inch wide. 



