Typha major. Greater Catstail. 



TYPHA Linnet Gen. Plant. Mqnoecia Trian&ria. 



Masc. Amentum cylindricum. Cat. obfoletus, 3 phyllus, 

 Cor. 0. Fem. Amentum cylindricum, infra mafculos. Cat 

 capillo villofo. Cor. o. Sem. 1. infidens pappo capillar!. 



Raii Syn. Herb^e graminifoli;e hoh cuxmifer.e flore imperfecto seu stamineo. 



TYPHA UtifoUa foliis fubenfiformibus, fpica mafcula femineaque approximatis» Lin. Syft. Vegetab* 

 p. 702. Sp. pi. 1377. 



TYPHA clava unica. Haller. hiji. n. 1305. 



TYPHA latifolia. Scopoli Fl. Carniol. p. 214. 



TYPHA paluftris major. Bauhin. p» 20. 



TYPHA paluftris maxima. Parkin/on, 120^ 



TYPHA Ger. emac. 46. Raii Syn. p. 436. Great Catftail or Reed-mace. Uudfom PL AngU ea 1 , 2. p. 400. 

 Lightfoot. FL Scot. 538. 



RADIX perennis, repens, craffitie pollicis* articulata, | ROOT perennial, creeping, the thicknefs of one's 



fpongiofa, radiculis, flbrillofis, albidis inftru&a, | thumb, jointed, fpongy, furnifhed with fmall 



fureuli albidi, teneri, in mucronem rigidam i fibrous roots of a whitifh colour, the young 



abeuntes, more tritici canini. | moots white, tender» terminating in a fharp 



£ hard point, like that- of the common couch 



J grafs. 



CULMtJS tripedalis ad fexpedalem, fimplex, ereclus, | STALK from three to fix feet high, fimple, upright* 



foliofus, teres, laevis. %. leafy, round and fmooth. 



FOLIA alterna, erecta, tortuofa, ball fubenfiformia, | LEAVES alternate, upright, twitted, at bottom fword 



carnofa, fuperne plana, glauca, unciam fere £ fhaped and flefhy, at top flat, and of a blueifh 



lata, bi aut tripedalia, longiffima vagina cau- £ colour, about an inch in breadth and two or 



lem involventia. | three feet in length, inclofing the flalk in a 



t very long Iheath. 



SPATHiE duae, deciduae, una ad fpicas mafculae bafin, | SHEATHS two, deciduous, one placed at the bottom 



altera ad ejus medium. £ of the male fpike, the other at the middle. 



FLORES mafculi numerofiffimi in x^mento ere6to, cul- | FLOWERS of the male very numerous, in an up- 

 mum terminante. | right Catkin, terminating the flalk. 



CALYX, nullus. £ CALYX wanting. 



COROLLA, nulla. | COROLLA wanting. 



STAMINA: Filamentum antequam antherge polli- ^ STAMINA: the Filament before the fhedding of 



nem dimittunt, brevifiimum, fuftinens An- | the pollen is very fhort, fuftaining from one 



theram unam ad quatuor, demifib polline pen- | to four Antherae, the pollen being fhed, they 



dulum, et antheris longius ; Anthers ob- £ hang down and become longer than the an- 



longae, flavae, quadrifulcatae, glandula viref- | therae ; Anthers oblong, yellow, with four 



cente terminatae. fig. 1. 2. 3. 4. . ■$ grooves, and terminated by agreenifh gland. 



I jk- *• 2. 3- 4- 



FLORES feminei numerofiffimi, in amento, mafculino J FLOWERS of the female extremely numerous, in a 



fubjeclo et contiguo. t catkin placed under and contiguous to the 



I male catkin. 



PISTILLUM: GERMENovatum, minimum, pedunculo y PISTILLUM: Germen oval, very minute, fitting on 



brevi infidens ; Stylus fuperne incraffatus ; | a fhort footftalk ; Style thickened above ; 



Stigma nigrum. | Stigma black. 



SEMEN minimum, pedunculatum, ariftatum, pedun- f SEED very fmall, fitting on a footftalk, and termi- 



culo pappofo. fig. 5. I nated by an arifta, the footftalk downy, fig. 5. 



RECEPTACULUM amend mafculi pilofum. | RECEPTACLE of the male-catkin hairy. 



THE appearance of the Typha Major, when its fpike is nearly ripe, is fufficiently ftriking to engage the at- 

 tention even of the moil incurious ; it is not therefore to be wondered at, that Gentlemen, who are fond of 

 Plants, fhould introduce it on the edges of their ponds, or that Painters mould make it a confpicuous Plant 

 in their reprelentations of water; the Gentleman fhould however be apprized, that it has a creeping root, 

 which encreafes very much, foon choaks up a fmall piece of water, and overpowers other aquatics ; thus dif- 

 ficult to keep within proper bounds, the moft eligible mode of cultivating it is found to be in fome border of 

 the garden, where, if the foil be moift, it will flourifh and produce fpikes more abundantly than in the water. 

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