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91. TYPHACE^. 
ovate-lanceolate.— i;. B. 1455. R. ix. 323.— St. 6—7 feet high. 
L. overtopping the inflorescence, very broad. Spikes very long. 
—[In T. Shuftl^vorthii (Koch.), JR. ix. 322, the style equals the 
bristles.]— Ponds and lakes. P. VI. VII. E. S. I. 
2. T. anffustifdlia (L.) ; 1. linear channeled below, sterile and 
fertile spikes a little separated, style exceeding the bristles, stig. 
long filiform.— i:. £. 1456. E. ix. 321.— St. 5— 6 feet high, much 
slenderer than in the preceding. L. very narrow, overtopping 
the inflorescence. Spikes very long, slender, separated by an in- 
terval of about an inch. — [7*. gracilis (Suhr.), R. ix. 320, has a 
rounded spathulate stigma.] — Lakes and ponds. P. VI, VII. 
E. S. I. 
[T. minor (Sm.) ; 1. linear-setaceous overtopped by the distant 
spikes. — E. B. 1457.— Keported to have been found on Houn- 
slow Heath. Dillenius. P. VII.] E. 
2. Spakga'nium Linn. Biir-reed. 
1. S. ramdsum (Huds.) ; 1. triquetrous at the base with concave 
sides, st. branched above, stigma linear, fl. sessile. — E. B. 744. 
R. ix. 326.— St. erect, about 2 feet high ; lower branches witli 
several heads, 1 — 3 fertile, the rest ban-en. Heads spherical. 
L. long, linear, erect. — Ditches. P. VII. E. S. I. 
2. S. sim'plex (Huds.); 1. trigonous at the base, d. simple, 
stigma linear, fr. slightly stalked subfusiform. — E. B. 745. R. 
ix. 325.— St. 1—2 ft. high, long, erect or ascending. L. long, 
often floating ; sheath slightly furrowed, not inflated. Heads 
many ; barren several, sessile ; fertile shortly stallced, especially 
the lowest. Fr. oblong, narrowed into a long beak, eUigtic- 
fusiform.— Ditches. P. VII. E. S. I. 
3. S. nutans (L.) ; st. simple flaccid, floating!. ver\' long linear 
from a dilated sheathing base, heads many distant, lower fertile 
heads stalked, male heads several sessile, fr. stalked obUmg not 
longer than its subulate leak.—S. affine Schn., R. ix. 417. — St. 
much thicker than in the next plant. L. grass-green, very long. 
Male heads fewer in oui- plant than in the Swedish. — Lakes 
in Scotland. Connemara, Ireland. Mr. D. Moore. Snowdon. 
Patterdale. P. VIII. E. S. I. 
4. S. min'imum (Fr.) ; st. simple flaccid, 1. linear floating blunt 
not enlarged at the base, heads few racemose or spiked distant, 
only 1 male head, fr. .nessile ovoid shortly beaked. — A', natans Sm., 
E. B. 273. R. ix. 324.— St. slender. L. pale, pellucid, long. 
Lowest fertile heads sometimes very shortly stalked. — Lakes 
and ditches. P. VII. VIII. E. S. I. 
