76 40. Scirpus. 9. CYPERACEiE. Pl.end.ph. 
Root yellow ; culm single or tufted, 4 feet high, upright, 
pale green, angles acute; hraeteola short, membranaceous; 
spikelets 3 or 5 ; glumes ovate, edge ciliated, apex blunt 
mucronated; apex of the anther cuspidate, small, white, 
diaphanous ; akenium obovate, edge rounded, very smooth. 
j3. foliaceus . Sheaths ending in a short leaf. 
9. Scirpus pungens. Prickly rush . 
Culm 6-sided; spikes glomerate, sessile; glumes ovate, 
rounded, apex 2-cut; anther aristated; sheath ending in 
short leaves; hractea 1 , upright, longer than the panicle. 
Scirpus q. Juncus acutus maritimus caule triquetro, rigido, mucrone 
pungente Plukenet, Raii Syn. 429, 5. 
Juncus acutus maritiuius caule triangulo, Park, 1196. 
Scirpus mucronatus, Wither. Bot. Arr. 2, 50. 
Scirpus mucronatus a, Huds. FI. Angl. 20. 
Scirpus triqueter #, Smith FI. Brit. 1, 55. 
Scirpus llothii, Hoppe Deutschl, FI. 3 6, 4. 
Sea-shore; perennial; August. 
Culm slender, firm ; sheaths all ending in leaves ; spikelets 
4 or 6, sessile; hractea. 3 or 4 in. long; glumes chesnut co- 
lour, rounded, lobes acute, rib not prominent. 
10 . Scirpus maritimus . Sea rush . 
Culm 3-sided, leafy ; panicle cymose, simple, bracteate ; 
leaves many, ridged ; hractea 2 to 5, pungent ; glumes mu- 
cron ate. 
Cyperus q. Gratnen cyperoides palustris, panicula sparsa, Parkinson 
(1266), Raii Syn. 425, 2. 
Gramen aquaticum cyperoides volgatius, Ger . em. 22. 
Scirpus maritimus, Lin. S. P. 74. 
Scirpus cyperoides, La Marcke FI. Fr. 3, 553. 
Salt marshes ; perennial ; August. 
Root creeping, scaly ; culm upright, rigid, 3 feet high, 
angles acute; leaves channelled, pointed, upper largest; 
sheaths smooth; panicle cymose, branchy, spreading; spike 
sessile or peduncled; hractea unequal, pungent, lower 
longest. 
conglohatus. Panicle simple, conglomerate ; spikes all 
sessile ; hractea mostly 2. 
y. nodosus. Root knobbed. 
Cyperus rotundus littoreus inodorus, Raii Syn. 426, 3. 
Cyperus rotundus littoreus, Ger. em. 31. 
Cyperus rotundus littoreus inodorus Anglicus, Park. 1264. 
Round-rooted bastard cyperus. 
