382 97. CYPEEACEiE, 



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

 tuberous. St. 1—3 feet high, leafv. Spikes large, sometimes 

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



E. S. T. 



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

 compound terminal panicle, clusters stalked and sessile, general 

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

 trigonous.—^. B. 919. St. 36. 8. R. 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 

 apiculate, stoles long and rooting, may possibly be foundj — 

 Damp woods and banks. P. VII. E. S^ I. 



3. 8. triqiiSter (L.) ; st. acutely triquetrous throughout, spike- 

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

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

 convex smooth."—^. 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 Aruu, Sussex: and the Tamer near Oalstock, 

 OornwaU. P. VIIL E. 



'^S. pun'gem (Vahl) ; st. acutely triquetrous throughout, 

 spikelets few sessile, gl. notched mucronate smooth with acute 

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

 2819. R. viii. 304. 8. Rotkii Hoppe P St. 36. 4. St. from 6— 

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

 long narrow keeled leaves. Lower bract very long and rigid, re- 

 sembling a prolongation of the stem. Spikelets large, ovate, 

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

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



4. 8. carindtus (Sm.) ; st. round 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. 1983. 8. Duvattii Hoppe, St. 36. 2. R. viiL 

 808.— -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. VTI. E. 



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

 compound panicle, gl. notched mucronate glabrous fringed, nut 

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

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



