78 41. Eleochark 9. CYPERACEiE. 
PL end. ph. 
Scirpus equiseti capitulo majori, Rail Syn. 429, 7. 
Junctts aquaticus capitulis equiseti, Park. l]96. 
Juncus minor capitulis equiseti, Ger. em. 34. 
Scirpus palnstris, Lin. S. P„ 70.. 
Eleocharis palustns, Reenter Sys. Veg. 151. 
Bulbostylis palustris, Steven Mem. Mosq. 5, 355. 
Rivers and ditches; perennial; June and July. 
Root horizontal, stoloniferous ; culms unequal, in tufts, 
very soft, spongy, thick ; sheaths coloured ; apex brown, 
obliquely truncated ; spike ovate, cylindrical, neatly imbri- 
cate ; glumes equal, brown, edge scariose, rib green ; akenium 
yellow. 
XL 42. ISOLEPIS. R. Brown. Smoothfush . 
Spathelles 1, all alike, fertile; glumelles none; stamens 3 ; 
style not jointed to the ovary, base simple, falling off; stig- 
mata 2 or 3 ; akenium lenticular or 3-sided. — Root fibrous 
or creeping ; leaves 0, except the barren round culms ; 
spikes terminal, single ; spikelets lateral, sessile or capitate, 
footstalked ; hractece 2, glumaceous. 
a. Spike 1, terminal ; hractece 2 -valued, 
1. Isolepis fluitans . Floating smoot brush* 
Culm branched ; barren culms flaccid ; spike fewflowered. 
Scirpus equiseti capitulo ruinori, Raii Syn. 431, 12. 
Scirpus fluitans, Lin. S. P. 71. 
Isolepis fluitans, R. Brown Prod. 222. 
Ditches and ponds ; perennial ; July, August. 
Root fibrous ; culm very long, floating, rooting at the 
joints ; spike green, small ; stigmata 2. 
0. stolonifera. Culm channelled, leafy at the bottom ; 
spike 2-flow r ered. 
b. Spikelets terminal , aggregated , capitate; hractece 2, 
leajlike. 
2. Isolepis paniculala . Panicled smoothrusk . 
Heads globose, sessile or footstalked ; hractece unequal, 
the lower channelled, edge sawed, the upper shorter, bent 
down; culm round, naked, smooth. 
Scirpus maritimus, capitulis rotundiorihus glomeratis, Raii Syn. 429,6. 
Scirpioides $ 1, No. I, Micheli N. P. G. 52. 
Scirpus Holoschcenus, Lin. S. P. 72. 
Scirpus Holoschcenus a. Smith FI. Br. 51. 
Isolepis Holoschcenus, Rcem.Sys. Veg. 151. 
Salt marshes; perennial ; August to November. 
