Order 1. 
TRIANDIUA MONOGYNIA. 
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872 Spike solitary, Culm very smooth. Sheaths inflated 
873 Spikes several. Culms 3-cornered, Leaves broadish keeled 
874 Spikes several, Culms 3-cornered, Leaves very narrow setaceous 
875 Spikes several. Culms round leafy. Spikes sessile clustered shorter than the involucrum 
876 Spikes several. Culms 3-cornered, Leaves nearly filiform 3-cornered, Peduncles rough. Flowers erect 
877 Spike solitary. Culms round spongy soft. Sheaths not inflated 
878 Umbel compound. Culm branched 
879 Spike solitary. Culms simple 3-comered roughish 
880 Head globose, Spikelets oblong convex about 8-flowered, Involucr. 4-leaved, Leaves channelled lax 
881 Spikelets solitary and in pairs sessile, Involucr. 1-leaved, Culm setaceous 
882 Spikelets ovate much clustered, Culm rather 3-cornered, Leaves channelled 
883 Stem 3-cornered leafless ascending or decumbent, Spikelets about 5 oblong obtuse very shortly stalked 
884 Heads simple and clustered ovate, Spikelets oblong, Involucr. very long 
885 Spikes distichous, Spikelets spreading filiform, Florets distant. Umbel upright 
886 Spikelets aggregate ovate rather squarrose in heads, Involucr. longer than umbel, Lvs. and involucr. rough 
887 Umbels many rayed compound. Spikes elongate, Spikelets linear-lanceolate, Involucr. 4-leaved long 
888 Lvs. linear shorter than the 3-cornered culm, Invol. 3-leaved, outer leaf very long, Spikel. lane. Scales obtuse 
889 Spikelets linear-lanceolate. Umbels corymbose fascicled, Involucr. about 6-leaved 
890 Culm 3-cornered naked. Umbel 3-leaved supra-decompound, Spikes clustered rounded, Spikelets subulate 
891 Spikelets about 3 linear. Valves obcordate mucronate distinct spreading. Umbel loose 
892 .Spikelets linear-lanc. alternate clustered. Glumes obtuse, Involucr. 3-leaved longer than the trifid umbel 
893 Spikelets linear-lanc. alternate very close. Valves acute, Invol. about 3 or 5-leaved very long. Umbel 3-5-fid. 
894 Spikes oblong loose, Spikelets subulate alternate capitate, Invol. very long spreading, Rays of umbel altern. 
895 Spikelets lanceolate roundish headed compact, Valves ovate 1-nerved, Involucr. longer than the umbel 
896 Spikelets lin.-lanc. distant acute, Rays of the umbel about 7 terminal shorter than the 3-5-leaved involucrum 
897 Spikes corymb. Spikel. lin.-lanc. flattened, Invol. and rays of umbel very long corymbose with leafy stem . 
898 Spikes corymbose, Spikelets linear. Valves remote obtuse obovate spreading in fruit. Umbels loose 
899 Spikes nearly sessile imbricated round, Spikelets ovate oblong spreading 
900 Spikelets in corymbose fascicles, Spikelets linear-lanceolate dense, Invol. 3-leaved, Leaves very rough 
901 Umb. 6-7-rayed compound, Heads many-spiked, Spikel. lin. many-flowered, Invol. 3-leaved reflexed rough 
902 Stem taU terminated by a reflexed involucrum of many very long narrow leaves 
903 Head globose sessile solitary, Involucr. very long 
904 Umbel rather contracted, Invol. very long, Spikelets clustered, Valves ovate carinate acute 
905 Head 1 or 3 sessile round, Invol. many leaved long, V alves carinate hooked 
906 Heads about 3 sessile clustered, Spikelets very dense rather imbricated 
907 Umbel compound. Spikes cylindrical imbricated backwards, Involucres many-leaved 
908 Umbel compound. Spike cylindrical, Spikelets very spreading, Bractes longer than the spikelets 
909 Leaves shorter than the 3-cornered culm rough at edge, Umb. contracted, Invol. many-leaved, Spikel. sub- 
reflexed, Scales keeled striated 
910 Spikes cylindrical sessile, Spikelets oblong. Bract setaceous longer than spikelets, Invol. many-leaved 
911 Common peduncle shorter than the spikes 
of a brown color. The ancients made their paper from the pellicle found between the flesh and bark of the 
thick part of the stalk ; ribbons of which were united till they formed the size required, and then pressed and 
dried in the sun. The top of the stalk, with the umbel of flowers, adorned the temples, and crowned the 
statues of the gods. Antigonus used the stalks for ropes and cables to his fleets, before the use of spartum 
{Lygeum spartum, still used on the coast of Provence for small vessels, and also in Spain was known. Pliny 
says, the whole plant was used for making boats ; and Bruce says, they have no other boat in Abyssinia. That 
traveller found it growing in the rapid course of the river Jordan, and he there remarked that it constantly op- 
posed one of the angles of its stem to the current, as if to elude the violence of the waves. Perhaps, if the 
observation were applied to similar plants in our own rivers, the same result would be obtained. The root was 
chewed for its juice, which is also practised in Abyssinia with various species of cyperus, and with those of 
maize. The papyrus is indigenous in Calabria as well as in Ethiopia and Egypt, in stagnant water ; but only in 
the cahshes or swamps of the Nile, and never in the stream as has been supposed. To thrive in our stoves, it 
requires to be placed in a cistern of water with rich mud at the bottom. Plants so treated, at White Knights, 
near Reading, have attained a large size, and flower freely. 
129. KyUinga. In memory of P. KyUing, a Danish botanist, who died in 1696. 
130. Marisais. A word derived from the Celtic mar, a marsh, in allusion to the situations in which it is 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
131. Remirea. The Guiana' name of the plant. 
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