472 c. JCNCAGiNACEiE. [ Triglochin . 
hilum . — Marsh Herbs, with narrow radical leaves. Flowers 
spiked or racemed. 
1. Triglochin. Anthers almost sessile. Ovary 1, 3 — G-celled. Flowers 
in a straight naked spike or raceme. 
2. Scheuchzeria Anthers on a slender filament. Ovaries 3. Flowers 
in a flexuose bracteate raceme. 
1. Triglochin Linn. Arrow-grass. 
Perianth of 6 erect, concave, deciduous sepals, 3 inner in- 
serted a little higher than the 3 outer ones. Stamens 6, 
inserted near the base of the sepals : anthers almost sessile. 
Ovaries 3 — 6, united into one 3 — 6-celled. Stigmas 3 — 6, 
sessile, plumose. Capsules 3 — 6, 1 -seeded, united by a longi- 
tudinal receptacle , from which they usually separate at the base. 
Flowers in a naked straight spike or raceme. — Named from 
rpuc, three , and y\wxiv, a point; from the three points or valves 
of the capsules in the common species. 
1. T. palustre L. ( Marsh A.) ; fruit 3-celled nearly linear. 
E. B. t. 366. 
Wet meadows, and by the sides of rivers and ditches in marshy 
situations, plentiful. 2f. 6 — 8. — Leaves all radical, linear, fleshy, 
slightly grooved on the upper side, sheathing and membranous at the 
base. Scape 8 — 10 inches high, terminating in a lax, simple spi/ie or 
raceme. Flowers small, greenish. Capsules 3, linear, united by a com- 
mon receptacle, so as to form a solitary long 3-celled fruit , each cell 
separating at its base, and suspended by the extremity, containing 
one seed, and not dehiscent. 
2. T. maritimum L. ( Sea-side A.) ; fruit 6-celled ovate. 
E. B. t. 255. 
Salt marshes, not unfrequent. It. 5 — 9. — Larger than the last 
and stouter, differing essentially in its fructification, which is formed 
of 6 combined capsules, constituting a broadly ovate fruit, not sepa- 
rating and suspended by their summits, as in T. palustre. 
2. Scheuchzeria Linn. Scheuchzeria. 
Perianth single, somewhat petaloid, of 6 reflexed sepals ; the ' 
inner ones narrower. Stamens 6. Filaments slender. Anthers ' 
erect, elongate. Ovaries 3. Stigmas sessile, papillose. Cap- 
sules 3, inflated, 2-valved, 1 — 2-seeded. — Flowers racemose I 
with a hractea at the base of their stalks. Named in honour of 
the three Scheuchzers, Swiss botanists. 
1. S . palustris L. ( Marsh S .) : E. B. t. 1801. 
Marshes, rare. Leckby Car, near Thirsk : Thorne Moor, near 
Doncaster; Bomere, near Shrewsbury; Wybunbury, Cheshire. 
Methven, near Perth. If. 7. — Leaves few, semi-cylindrical, slender, 
