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involucre six-leaved, leaves channelled. Root perennial, 
creeping.—Native of the South of France, Spain, Italy, 
Barbary, and Smyrna, on sandy sea coasts. 
4. Schoenus pilosus, or hairy bog-rush.—Culm round, 
sheaths of the leaves hairy, flowers in bundles.—Native of 
Guinea. 
5. Schoenus filiformis, or slender-stalked bog-rush.— 
Culm round, capillary, head oblong, involucre three-leaved. 
—Native of the Cape of Good Hope, as are the two fol¬ 
lowing. 
6. Schoenus striatus, or striated bog-rush.—Culm round, 
head ovate, involucre three-leaved. 
7. Schoenus capitellum.—Culm round, head ovate, in¬ 
volucre two leaved. 
8. Schoenus scariosus.—Culm round, head oblong, in¬ 
volucre one-leafed, glumes scariose at the edge. This has 
the appearance of Scirpus palustris.—-Native of the East 
Indies and the Cape of Good Hope. 
9. Schoenus radiatus, or melancranis radiata.—Head nearly 
globose. Bracteas numerous.—From the same country. Pe¬ 
rennial. Rather taller than the first. Bracteas, or barren scales, 
at the base of the head of flowers, from six to eight, one of 
them half an inch long, the rest gradually less, widely spread¬ 
ing, awl-shaped, rigid, and somewhat pungent. Head the size 
of a cherry, composed of innumerable, ovate, crowded spike- 
lets; their accompanying scales striated and dotted with purple. 
10. Schoenus nigricans, or black bog-rush.—Culm round, 
naked, head ovate, involucre two-leaved, with one of the 
valves awl-shaped and longer. Root perennial. Leaves 
linear, half round, shorter than the culm.—Native of Europe 
and Barbary, in bogs and marshes. In England not un¬ 
common : flowering in June. 
11. Schoenus compressus, or compressed bog-rush,— 
Culm roundish, naked, spike, distich shorter than the one- 
leafed involucre, spikelets many-flowered, leaves flat. Root 
perennial, fibrous a little creeping.—Native of Europe in 
bogs. On Hinton moor, and between Little Shelford and 
Whittlesford, in Cambridgeshire; near Darsingham-Bath, 
Norfolk; Chiselhurst, in Kent; Basford Scottum, in Notting¬ 
hamshire. Not uncommon in other counties of England : 
flowering in July. 
12. Schoenus ferrugineus, or rust-coloured bog-rush.—This 
is very nearly allied to Schoenus nigricans, but it is six times 
shorter and narrower. Head ferruginous as in that, but com¬ 
posed of a double spike, and hence very narrow. Each of 
these spikes consists of two flowers, very like those of ni¬ 
gricans.—Native of Gothland. 
13. Schoenus rufus, or brown bog-rush.—Culm round, 
naked, six inches high, spike, distich longer than the one- 
leafed, blunt, involucre, spikelets few-flowered, leaflets chan¬ 
nelled. Root perennial, creeping, horizontal.—Native of 
Scotland, in marshes; isles of Mull and Skye; and Dunglas 
Castle: it flowers in July. 
14. Schoenus fuscus, or dusky bog-rush.—Very like Schoe¬ 
nus albus in stature, size, appearance, and place, yet different 
in its glomerate brown spikelets, not fastigiate and white: it 
also flowers earlier. 
15. Schoenus tristachyos, or three-spiked bog-rush.— 
Culm round, jointed, even, heads three, terminating.—Na¬ 
tive of the Cape of Good Hope, as are also the two fol¬ 
lowing. 
16. v Schoenus cuspidatus, or cusped bog-rush.—Culm 
round, spikes panicled, shorter than the involucres. 
17. Schoenus aristatus, or awned bog-rush.—Culm round, 
leaflets, spikes aggregate, involucre one-leafed, glumes 
cusped. 
18. Schoenus compar, or equal-spiked bog-rush.—Culm 
round, leaflets a foot high, spikes aggregate, involucres one- 
leafed, shorter, glumes acute.—Native of the Cape of Good 
Hope. 
19. Schoenus flexuosus, or flexuose bog-rush.—Culm 
round, leafy, spikes panicled, glumes mucronate.—Native of 
the Cape of Good Hope, as is the following. 
20. Schoenus capillaceus, or hair-leaved bog-rush.— 
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Culm round, leafy, spike subracemed, glumes cusped, leaves 
capillary. 
21. Schoenus ustulatus, or burnt bog-rush.—Culm round, 
leafy, spikes peduncled, pendulous, oblong, awned. It 
differs manifestly from Schoenus glomeratus, by its oblong 
spikes.—Native of the Cape. 
22. Schoenus spicatus, or spiked bog-rush.—Culm round, 
capillary, heads spiked, involucred.—Native of the Cape of 
Good Hope. 
23. Schoenus bobartise.—Culm compressed, head termi¬ 
nating, involucre five-leaved. Roots many, heaped, appear¬ 
ing to the bulbous with brown inflated coats, putting forth 
long perpendicular fibres. Leaves linear, often exceeding 
the culm; which is about a foot high.—Supposed to be a 
native of Ceylon. 
24. Schoenus stellatus, or starry bog-rush.—Culm sub- 
triquetous, spikelets conglomerate, with a leafy involucres 
coloured at the base. Root perennial. Plant a foot high or 
less. Spikes terminating, clustered, sessile, acuminate, 
whitish.—Native of the West Indies. 
25. Schoenus bulbosus, or bulbous bog-rush.—Culm 
round, filiform, spikes racemed, directed one way, involucres 
solitary. Root bulbous, covered with the rudiments of 
fallen leaves. Leaves numerous, bristle-shaped, erect, almost 
the length of the culm, separated at the base by white mem¬ 
branaceous scales. Flowers red, glomerate, small, in three 
or four little sessile alternate balls towards the top of the 
culm.—Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
26. Schoenus inanis.—Culm round, leafless, spikes pa¬ 
nicled, glumes acute.—Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
II.—With a three sided culm. 
27. Schoenus cephalotes.—Culm leafy, three-sided, in¬ 
volucre four-leaved, bent down, head oblong, terminating, 
Distinct from Scirpus cepholates.—Native of Surinam. 
28. Schoenus cyperoides.—Culm three-sided, leafy, umbel 
terminating, spikelets glomerate. Two feet high. Leaves 
sheathing, half a foot .long, linear, smooth, with the keel of 
the leaves subserrate.—Native of Jamaica. 
29. Schoenus cymosus—Culm three-sided, leafy, umbel 
terminating, compound, spikelets ovate, striated, glomerate. 
Root perennial. Culm a foot high, erect. Leaves linear, 
keeled, numerous on the culm ; the upper ones longer than 
the umbel.—Native of North America. 
30. Schoenus glomeratus.—Culm three-sided, leafy, flow¬ 
ers inbundles, leaves flat, peduncles lateral, in pairs.—Native 
of Jamaica and North America. 
31. Schoenus cladium.—Culm bluntly, three-sided, leafy, 
even, eight or ten feet high, leaves prickly in front, panicles 
diffused, spikelets one-flowered, sessile two stamened.—Native 
of Jamaica. 
32. Schoenus effusus.—Culm leafy, bluntly, three-sided, 
even, leaves prickly in front, panicles more erect, spikelets 
one-flowered, sessile, two-stamened.—This also is a native of 
Jamaica. 
33. Schoenus restoides.—Culms at bottom, compressed- 
ancipital, and very smooth, flowers panicled, sheath lanceo¬ 
late at the top. Almost a fathom in height.—Native of the 
West Indies. 
34. Schoenus Surinamensis, or Surinam bog-rush.—Culm 
leafy, three sided, peduncles corymbed, the lower ones alter¬ 
nate, distant, the upper ones crowded. From one to four 
feetjrigh, growing in tufts.—Native of the West Indies, in 
Jamaica and Surinam: also in the East Indies and China. 
35. Schoenus thermalis, or warm-bath bog-rush.—Head 
lateral, compound, subsessile, leaves ensiform, keeled. Root 
perennial. Culms six feet high, the thickness of a swan’s 
quill, stiff, even. Leaves sheathed, strict, even, erect.— 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
36. Schoenus laevis.—Culm three-cornered, leafy, heads 
lateral, glumes mucronate, spikes ovate.—Native of the same 
Cape, as is the following. 
37. Schoenus lanceus.—Culm three-cornered, leafy, spikes 
panicled, lateral, glumes and spikelets lanceolate. 
33. Schoenus 
