SCIRPUS. 349 
ribbed and transversely. striated crowned with the turbinate base 
of the style, bristles short deciduous.—H. B. 749. St. 10. 
R. viii. 294.—Root fibrous with slender runners. St. numerous, 
slender, erect, 3—4 in. high. Spikes very small.—In damp 
places upon heaths. P.?, A. (Koch) VII. VIII. 
6. Scirpus Linn. 
* Bristles 6. Spikes numerous.—} St. triangular ; panicle leafy. 
1. S. maritimus (L.); spikes stalked or sessile in a dense ter- 
minal cluster, bracts several leaflike, gl. bifid with acute lobes and 
a central point, nut obovate trigonous smooth.—E, B. 542. St. 13. 
3. R. viii. 310, 311.—Root creeping, sometimes tuberous. St. 
1—3 feet high, leafy. Spikes large, sometimes solitary. Stigmas 
3, or rarely 2.—Salt marshes. P. VII. 
2. 8. sylvaticus (L.); spikes clustered in a large cymose very 
compound terminal panicle, clusters stalked and sessile, general 
bracts several leaflike, gl. obtuse with a minute apiculus, nut ob- 
ovate obtusely trigonous.—H. B.919. St. 36.8. R, viii. 313.—St. 
2—3 feet high. Spaces very numerous, small, greenish, ovate. 
L. broad, flat. Stigmas 3.—[S. radicans (Schk.), spikes all 
stalked, scions long and rooting, will probably be oan’: =Darup 
woods and banks. P. VII. 
Tt Stem triangular; panicle naked. 
3. S. carinatus (Sm.); st. round below bluntly trigonous up- 
wards, spikes in a small cymose panicle, g/. notched mucronate 
slightly punctate-scabrous and pilose frmged, nut “ convex on the 
back smooth.”—E. B. 1983. $8. Duvalii S¢. 36. 2. R. via. 308.— 
St. 2—4 feet high, convex-faced, with 1 or 2 long sheaths at the 
base, the uppermost terminating in a leaf of 3 or 4 in. long. 
Lower bract much longer than the panicle. Stigmas 2.—By 
rivers, near London and in Sussex. P. VI. VII. : 
4. S. triqueter (L.); st. acutely triquetrous throughout, spikes 
in a small cymose panicle, g/. notched mucronate glabrous fringed, 
lobes rounded obtuse, nut “ roundish-obovate plane-convex 
smooth.”— E. B. 1694. St. 36.3. R. viii. 305.—St. 3—4 feet high, 
with flat or concave faces; 1 or 2 long sheaths at the base, the 
uppermost terminating 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 ; 
and the Arun, Sussex. P. VIII. 
[5. S. pungens (Vahl); st. acutely triquetrous throughout, 
spikelets few sessile, gl. notched mucronate smooth, lobes acute, 
nut roundish-obovate plane-convex smooth.—E. B, S, 2819. R. 
