70 35. Cyperus. 9. CYPERACEAE. Pl.end.ph. 
rough; sheath truncated, brown ; hractece 3 or 6, leaflike; 
bracteolce 2 or 4, bristlelike ; spikelet 2-rowed, hermaphro- 
dite, umbelled ; umbels compound. 
Cyperus longus . Long cyperus , 
Culm leafy ; umbels subcorymbose ; involucrum 3 or 
4-leaved, unequal; radii unequal, very long, naked; invo - 
lucellum setaceous ; spikelets linear, alternate, distant, flat. 
Cyperus longus, Raii Syn. 425, 1 ; Ger. em. 30 ; Lin. S. P. 67. 
Cyperus longus odoratus. Park. 146. 
Sweet cyperus. English Galingale. 
Bogs; perennial; July to September. 
Root very long, brown; culm smooth, erect, slender, 2 or 
3 feet high, base leafy ; leaves very long, light green ; sheath 
short, pale, scariose; umbels 6 in. high; spikelet 10 or 
12-flowered ; involucellum white ; glume oblong ; apex 
nicked; edge pale, scariose; keel green, smooth. 
Root diuretic, emmenagogue, tonic; also sweet-scented, 
the scent improving by being kept in powder. 
V. 36. CLADIUM. Schrader. Pricklerush . 
Spathelle 1, imbricate, 1 -flowered, outer smaller and 
empty; glume lies none; stamens 2; style not jointed ; stig- 
mata 2, 3, or 4; drupe long, rather 3-sided; putamen brittle, 
thin; nut long, elliptical, rather 4-furrowed, upper part 
naked, nucleus white. — Root creeping, fistulous, round, 
branchy, tumid and knobby at the bottom; leaves flat, 
linear, edge and ridge prickly, sheath short; ligula none; 
corymbus terminal or axillary; spikelets 2 or 3-flowered. 
Cladium Germanicum . German Pricklerush . 
Culm round; corymbus crowded; spikelet fascicled. 
Cyperus longus inodorus sylvestris, Ger. em. 29; Raii Syn. 426, 4. 
Cyperus longus inodorus vulgaris, Park. 126:4. 
Pseudo-cy perus palustris, Micheli N. P. G. 55. 
Schcenus Mariscus, Lin. S. P 62. 
Cladium Germanicum, Schrader Germ. 7 5. 
Prickly bogrush. 
Marshes, especially saline; perennial; July and August. 
Leaves dry, very long; sheaths very smooth; corymbi 
in pairs; peduncles long; bractece ovate; spikelet shining, 
2-flowered, ovate, crowded ; glumes light brown, obtuse ; 
drupe red, shining. 
