PLetid.ph. 9. CYPERACEiE. 42. Isolepis. 79 
Root horizontal, in tufts; culms many, sea-green, 3 feet 
high, stiff; sheaths 3 or 4, alternate brown, streaked, acute, 
apex ending in a short barren culm 2 or 3 in. long; panicle 
unequal, stiff, divaricating; lower hractea acute, upright, 
6 in. long; upper green, short, divaricated; heads 5 to 8, 
verrucose; spikelets rounded ; stamens 3. 
0. australis. Middle head sessile, the rest footstalked ; 
culm slender. 
Juncus minor acutus maritimus prolifer, P taken. Phyt. 40, 5. 
Scirpioides ^ 2, No. 2, Michel* N. P. G. 52. 
Scirpus australis, Lin. S. P. 72. 
Scirpus Hoiosclicenus i?, Smith FI. Br. 53. 
y. Romana. Head all sessile; culm very slender. 
Scirpioides § 3, No. 2, Micheli N. P. G. 52. 
Scirpus Romamis, Lin . S. P. 72. 
Scirpus Holoschoenus y. Smith FI. Br. 53. 
Isolepis Holoschoenus romamis, Roem. S. V. 151. 
c. Spike terminal , solitary or aggregate; hracteos 1 or 
2-leaved ; akenium streaked longitudinally. 
3. Isolepis setacea . Bridle smoothrush. 
Culm bristlelike, slender, unbranched ; spikes 1 to 4 , 
nearly sessile, horizontal; hractea 1, leaflike, long, upright, 
much shorter than the culm ; akenium roundish. 
Scirpus foliaceus humilis. Rail Syn. 430, 11. 
Juncellus Lobellii, Park. 1192. 
Grainen jtinceum maritimum exile Plimmoslii, Park. 1270 
Scirpus S 2, No. 5, Micheli N. P. G. 50. 
Scirpus setaceus, Lin. S. P. 73. 
Isolepis setacea, R. Brown Prod. 222. 
Plymouth rush. Small clubrush. 
Wet sandy ground; annual ; July and August. 
Root fibrous, in tufts; culms many, 3 in. high, rather 
stiff; sheaths ending in a short, channelled, barren stem; 
spike apparently lateral, ovate, 1, 4, 6, or 1 2-fiowered, va- 
riegated with white, green, and purple ; hractece sheathing, 
dilated at bottom, edge scariose, concave; akenium obovate, 
very small. 
XII. 43. TRICHOPHORUM. Persoon. Hares-tail 
Spathelle 1 , imbricate, all round ; glumetles bristlelike ; 
bristles 6, woolly, crisp, smooth, longer than the glumes, 
becoming exserted; stamens 3; style 1, not dilated at bot- 
tom, jointed, falling off’; stigmata 2 or 3; akenium ovate.— 
Root creeping, perennial, in tufts; culm angular, rough. 
