PI. end.ph. 
74 40. Scirpus. 9. CYPERACEAS. 
Scirpus ruontanus capitulo brevior, Raii Syn. 429,9. 
Scirpus §. 
Scirpus csespitosus, Lin. S. P. 72. 
Leer’s hair. 
Turfy heaths; perennial; July. 
Culm densely tufted, very smoothly streaked, stiff, G in. 
high ; sheaths ending a short leaf ; lower hractece 3 or 
5-ribbed ; mucro white, thick. 
2. Scirpus pauciflorus. Fewflowered rush , 
Spike ovate, 6 or 7~dowered: traded unequal, shorter 
than the spike; radical scales very few. 
Scirpus, § 5, No. 1, Micheli N. P. G. 51. 
Scirpus Bceolhryon, Lin. Suppl. 108. 
Scirpus paucifiorns, Lightfoot Scot, 1078. 
Scirpus Kalieri, Villars JJelph. 2, 188. 
Hilly bogs; perennial; August. 
Culms many, 6 in. high, upright; barren culms taller; 
glumes obtuse, and apex whitish. 
3. Scirpus campestris . Champaign rush . 
Spike linear, 3 or 4 -flowered ; hr act ece equal, as long as 
the spike ; radical scales very few. 
Scirpus campestris, Roth Catal. 1, 85. 
Splashy fields; perennial; August. 
Culm 4 in. high, upright; spike when flowering linear; 
when fruiting oblong; hr act ece as long, or 2 to 3 times longer 
than the spike. 
4. Scirpus multicaulis . Many stemmed rush. 
Spike ovate, manyflowered ; hractece equal, not very 
short, obtuse ; radical scales 0. 
Scirpus cquiseti capitulis crassioribus et babitioribus, humiiis et multi- 
eaulis, Rupp. FI. Jen. a Hallero , 319. 
Scirpus palustris j8, Lin. FI. Lapp. 
Scirpus palustris, Ehr. Calam. 61. 
Scirpus multicaulis. Smith Ft. Brit. 48. 
Scirpus multicaulis, equiseti capitulis minoribus, Reliq. Ruddeck. 28, 2. 
Bogs; perennial; July. 
Foot thick ; culm 9 in. high ; sheath cylindrical ; spike 
ferruginous; glumes equal, ovate, obtuse, blackish, edge 
and point membranaceous, rib green. 
b. Scirpus. Spikes many, terminal; culm round or 3-sided * 
naked; leaves none ; root creeping ; hractece 2 or 3, leajlike. 
5. Scirpus lacustris . Lake rush . 
Culm round, elongated, smooth ; panicle branched ; spikes 
ovate; lower hractece long, upright; upper hractece short, 
horizontal. 
