PLend.ph. 9* CYPERACE^E. 4*0. Scirpus. 77 
11. Scirpus sylvaticus. Wood rush. 
Panicle very branched, corymbose, bracteate ; culm 
3-sided, leafy ; spikelets crowded ; glumes not nicked, mu- 
cronate ; bractece 3, leaflike 5 unequal. 
Cyperus gramineus, Rati Syn. 426, 5. 
Cyperus gramineus miliaceus, Ger. cm. SO. 
Pseudocy perus miliaceus, Park. 1171. 
Scirpus sylvaticus, Lin . S. P. 175. 
Millet cyperus grass. 
Damp woods; perennial; July. 
Culm single, upright, 2 feet high, hollow at top, leafy ; 
leaves broad, acute, shining; sheaths smooth ; ligula small; 
bractece 2 or 4*, lower longer than the panicle ; upper small, 
loose, truncated ; spikelets dark green. 
X. 41. ELEOCHARIS. R. Brown. Cluhrush . 
Spathelle 1 , all alike fertile ; glumelles bristlelike, bristles 4, 
denticulate; style dilated at bottom, jointed to the ovary ; 
stigmata 2 or 3; akenium lenticular, dilated at bottom, 
crowned with the hardened style.— Root annual, fibrous, 
or perennial, creeping, horizontal ; culm simple, round or 
angular, smooth; sheaths truncated, leafless; spike 1, ter- 
minal, upright, naked ; glume imbricate all round ; leaves 0, 
except on the barren culms. 
a. Culm bristly , thread shape ^ angular ; root fibrous. 
1. Eleochcrris acicularis. Needlelike club rusk. 
Culm 4-angled, bristly ; spike ovate, acute ; bractea half 
the length of the spike; root fibrous; stigmata 3. 
Scirpus minimus capitulis equiseti, Rail Syn. 429, 8. 
Scirpus acicularis, Lin. S. P. 71. 
Cyperus acicularis. With. 78. 
Eleocharis acicularis, Rcemer Sys. Veg. 154. 
Wet heaths and bogs; perennial; August. 
Root fibrous, in tufts; culms many; sterile culms long, 
recurved, obtuse, threadshape, smooth, knotty ; sheaths very 
fine ; spikes 5 to 1 1-flowered, turning black ; glumes ovate, 
obtuse, rib green ; akenium white, shining ; bristles 4, fall- 
ing off. 
b. Culm round ; root creeping. 
2. Eleocharis palustris . Marsh chibrush „ 
Culm round; spike oblong; glumes lanceolate, acute; 
root creeping ; stigmata 2 ; bractea very small, 
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