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seem to be from the books. I cannot find it at Babington's station 
on Shane's Castle Island. It is certainly extinct on Harbour Island, 
as I fear is the fate also of Carex Buxbaumii. On the little islet near 
MaghaiTy it is in some plenty, but the bounds are so small that it 
will scarcely continue very long even there. The Rev. Mr. Robin- 
son had another station on the County Tyrone shore of Lough Xeagh, 
but he has not seen it for some time, and fears that it has disappeared 
from that station also." Mr. Stewart could not find a suigle specimen 
in the station in County Derry, where he gathered it four years ago. 
Narrow Small Heed. 
German, Vernachlasslyfe^ S<:Ju-Jf. 
Tribe YIII.—PHRAGMITIDE.E. 
Spikelets open during flowering, arranged in a lax open panicle, late- 
rally compressed, each containing 1 to 7 perfect florets, sometimes with 
a male one at the base. Glumes equal or slightly unequal, as long as 
or shorter than the florets. Pales 2, scarious, the lower one keeled. 
Stamens 3. Styles long; stigmas 2, protruded near the apex of the 
florets, between the margins of the pales. Caryops laterally com- 
pressed. 
GENUS XX/.-P HRAGMITES. Trin. 
Spikelets stalked, arranged in a loose open panicle, with elongate 
branches which are spreading at least during the time of flowering, 
laterally compressed, open during flowering, each containing from 
1 to 6 stalked perfect florets with another male one at the base. 
Glumes 2, very unequal, the lower one much the smaller^ both shorter 
than the florets, pointed but not awned, parchmentlike. Pales 2, 
very unequal, membranous, the lower one lanceolate-subulate, entire, 
not awned, the upper one much smaller, with 2 keels on the back. 
Axis, with long silky hairs between the florets. Lodicules 2, thick. 
Stamens 3. Styles 2, elongate ; stigmas hairy, protruded at the sides 
of the flower between the apical margins of the pales. Caryops 
glabrous, free, oblong-ovoid, scarcely furrowed. 
The name of tliis genus of grasses is derived from ©paypair, a hedge. 
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