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92. TYPHACE^. 
to the base : 2 lateral divisions keeled, compressed, blunt, fringed, 
black. Each fl. with a broad blunt black scale in front which is 
shorter and broader than it. — Hebrides, especially Skye. West 
coast of Ireland, especially Connemara. P. VIII. S. I. 
Order XCII. TYPHACE.E. \ 
Fl. moncecious, many, closely placed in cylindrical spikes or 
in dense globose clusters ; barren and fertile on dififerent parts 
or spike, the males uppermost. Perianth of 3 or more scales or 
hairs. Stam. 1 — 6, distinct or monadelphous. Anth. erect. — 
Fertile fl. Ovary free, solitary, 1-celled : ovule 1. pendulous. 
Style simple. Stigma unilateral. Fr. drj' or spongj-. Embryo 
with a cleft on one side.— Piaphides abundant. 
1. Typha. Spikes long dense cylindrical, upper part male, 
lower female. Stam. surrounded with hairs. Anth. 3 
together on one filament. Ovary surrounded by haire 
ultimately stalked. 
2. Spaegajn'itm. Fl. with a single 3 — 4-leaved perianth, 
in distant dense globose heads, the lower bracteate. Stam. 
free. Fruit dry, sessile. 
1. Ty'pha Linn. Pieed-mace. 
1. 7'. latifolia (L.) : 1. linear nearly fiat, sterile and fertile 
parts of spikes not separated, style exceeding the bristles, siig. 
oblique ovate-lanceolate.— II. 1455. i?. ix. 323. — St. 6 — 7 
feet high. L. overtopping the infiore.scence, very_ broad. Spikes 
very long, sometimes [var. media (Sy.)] there is a very short 
space between them : fertile blackish brown. — [In T. Shuttle- 
worthii (Koch), 7?. ix. 322, the style equals the bristles.] — Ponds 
and lakes. P. VI. VII. E. S. 1. 
2. T. anrjtistifolia (L.) ; 1. linear channelled below, stenle and 
fertile jMrts of spikes a little separated, style exceeding the 
bristles, stig. long filiform.—^. H. 1456. B. ix. 321.— St. 5—6 
feet high, much slenderer than in the preceding. L. very narrow 
overtopping the inflorescence. Spike very long, slender, sepa- 
rated by a tiowerless interval of about an inch ; fertile reddish 
lirown. — [T. 'gracilis (Schur). B. ix. 320, has a rounded spathJ 
ulate stigma.] — Lakes and ponds. P. VI. VII. E. S. iJ 
2. Spaega'nium Linn. Bur-reed. I 
1. .S'. erect' nm (L. em., Beck) ; 1. triquetrous at the base, »t\ 
brancfted above, fl. sessile [i>er..3egin. of female heads broad several-nerveiB 
