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base of the style without teeth.— E. B. 985. St. 40. 7— Root 
slightly creeping. St. 6 — 12 in. high. L. narrowly-linear. 
Spikelets whitish. Bristles 9 — 12. Filaments slender. — /3. sor- 
dida ; spikelets brownish, in small oval clusters often overtopped 
by the outer bracts. — Turfy bogs. P. VII. 
2. R. fusca (Sm.) ; spikelets in an oval head considerably 
shorter than the outer bracts, stam. 3, bristles with ascending 
teeth, base of the style with erect teeth.— E. B. 1575. St. 40. 6. 
— Root creeping extensively. St. 6 — 8 in. high. L. nearly fili- 
form. Spikelets brown. Bristles 6. Filaments dilated. See 
Leiyhton in Mag. Nat. Hist. viii. 676. — Bogs, rare. South-west 
of England. Ireland. P. VII. VIII. E. I. 
5. Eleocharis R. Br. 
1. E. palustris (R. Br.) ; spikes terminal solitary oblong, 
glumes rather acute, stigmas 2, nut roundish-obovate plano-con- 
vex with rounded margins smooth crowned with the broadly- 
ovate base of the style and shorter than the 4 bristles, base of 
the st. clothed with membranous obtusely-truncate sheaths. — 
E.B. 131. St. 9. — Root extensively creeping. Sheaths almost 
exactly transversely-truncate with a very obtuse point on one 
side. — Wet and marshy places. P. VI. 
2. E. multicaulis (Sm.) ; spikes terminal solitary oblong, 
glumes obtuse, stigmas 3, nut acutely triquetrous smooth crowned 
with the broad triquetrous base of the style as long as the 6 bristles, 
base of the st. clothed with obliquely truncate rather acute sheaths. 
—E.B. 1187. St. 78. 11.— Root slightly creeping. Sheaths 
truncate but with a rather acute angle on one side. — Marshy 
places. P. VII. 
3. E. acicularis (Sm.) ; spike terminal solitary ovate, glumes 
obtuse, stigmas 3, nut obovate-oblong compressed longitudinally 
ribbed and transversely striated crowned with the turbinate base 
of the style, bristles short deciduous. — E. B. 749. St. 10. — 
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. 
t St. triangular ; panicle leafy. 
1. S. maritimus (L.) ; spikes stalked or sessile in a dense ter- 
minal cluster, bracts several foliaceous, glumes bifid with an in- 
termediate point : segments acute, nut obovate trigonous smooth. 
— E. B. 542. St. 13. 3.— St. 1—3 feet high, leafy. Spikes 
large, sometimes solitary. Stigmas 3, or rarelv 2. — Salt marshes. 
P. VII. 
