^ -n •'-g-i.ai.v., nuu lu tilC UlUlC Ui LUC iViUllt;; 
ever lome hotamlts may affert to the contrary, the fine powder contained 
that contained m the capfules cf the Ferns. 
, *^9 relative to the Typha, and to learn whether it encreafcs in any confiderable degree from 
tne ieed, 1 propole linking round Ibme pond where it is not known to grow, feveral Iplkes with the feeds iuft 
canning to blow and lhall relate the efFedls of this experiment under the Sparganium, or Burreed. 
1 ne parts of fructification in this plant being very minute, are with difficulty inveftigated. Linnsiis, who 
examined and defcribed them without the affiftance of a magnifier, is therefore excufable, if he has not been fo 
accurate m his defcnption of them, as he Is in moft others, 
e Calyx which he delcribes does not appear to be the Calyx, but rather Ibme of the hairs proceeding from 
tbe receptacle, _ and which indeed appear^ more evidently to be fo, from the hairy appearance of the receptacle 
when the Itamma are dropt off ; on one Filament are fupported one, two, three, or four Anthers:, and that indif- 
crimmately, fo that there does not appear to be any great propriety in placing it in the order Triandria, it would 
be much lefs puzzling, and perhaps more agreeable to the fyftem, to place it in the order Polyandria, there be- 
ing many ftamina, and all of them united to one receptacle. 
The ufes to which this plant are applied are but few. 
The Roots are faid to be eaten as a fallad. Halier, hijl. ex. auEl. Gledit. 
The downy feeds ferve for fluffing pillows. Haller, bijl. 
Coopers ufe the leaves to fatten the hoops round their calks. L/«. ex au£l. Ruppit. 
According to Halcer, cattle eat the leaves which are fufpeaed to be poifonous by Schreber. 
It grows m ponds, ditches, and by the fides of rivers in many places about London, and flowers in July. 
TYPHA an^ujiifoUa foliis femicylindricis, fpka mafcula femineaque remotis. Lin, Sj/fi. vegeiah. p. yoz. 
THE Typha Minor is a much fcarcer plant about London than the Major, from which it diflers Ipeclfi- 
eally in having much narrower leaves and flenderer fpikes, the male fpike being alfo diftant from the female about 
an inch ; in the Arudure of its parts and its general oeconomy it refembles the other. 
I have obferved it growing near Baterfea, where it Is now deftroyed ; alfo on the middle of Woolwich Common, 
Xypha minor. Smaller Catstail. 
TYPHA L'mnai Gen. P/. Monoecia Triandria. 
Masc. Amentum cylindricum. Cal. oblbletus, 3 
phyllus Cor. o. Fem. Amentum cylindricum, infra 
mafculos. Cal. capillo villofo. Cor. o. Sem. 1. inll- 
dens pappo capillari. 
Ran Syn. Herr.® gRamniiFoli^e non culmiferje flore imperfecto seu stamineo. 
Sp. pl. 1377. 
TYPHA clava mafcula a feminina remota. Haller, hijl. 1306. 
TYPHA anguftifolia. ScopoU, F/. Carniol. p. p. 214. 
TYPHA paluftris minor. Bauhin pin. p. 20. 
TYPHA minor Parkinfon^ 1204. Raii Syn. 436. 
Hudfon. FI. Hngl, ed. 2. p. 4C0. 
where the Botanifl may probably find it a hundred years hence, 'it flowers at the fame time as the Major. 
