264 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Illustrations. — De CandoUe, " Plantes Grasses," tab. 118. Curtis, " Flora 
Londin." 3, pi. 113. Sowerby, "English Bot." ed. 3, pi. 533. Reichenbach, 
" Flora German." 23, tab. 57. Zenker, " Flor. Thuringen," 5, tab. 579. 
A European species long cultivated in gardens, and sometimes 
run wild in areas where it is not indigenous. It makes a fine mass 
Fig. 154. — S. muUiceps Coss. and Dur. 
of golden-yellow when in bloom, resembling acre at a distance, but 
the flowers are smaller and the leaves very different, being linear and 
arranged in six spiral rows, not triangular with a broad base. In 
foliage it somewhat resembles 5. Lydium and 5. gracile, but both 
of these have white flowers. Occasionally the characteristic spiral 
arrangement of the leaves is absent. Usually correctly named in 
gardens. 
