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TRIANDRIA. 
CRO'CUS. Bloss. resembling six petals, upright, open : Sum¬ 
mits rolled in a spiral; coloured. 
PRIS. Bloss. with six divisions ; three outer segments re¬ 
flexed : Summits like petals. 
(2) Flowers with valves like Grasses, and husk-like calyxes. Perfect. 
NAR'DUS. Bloss. two-valved Cal. none : Seed invested with 
the permanent blossom. 
ERIOPIFORUM. Bloss. none : Cal. chaffy scales, imbricated 
all round: Seeds encompassed with very long silky 
hairs. 
SCIR'PUS. Bloss. none : Cal. chaffy scales, tiled on every 
side : ( Style simple at the base, deciduous. E.) 
(ELEO'CHARIS. Bloss. none: Cal. tiled all round, uniform, 
expanded: Seed crowned and articulated with the di¬ 
lated, hardened base of the style. E.) 
CYPE'RUS. Bloss. none: (Cal. chaffy scales, imbricated, 
two-ranked, uniform, compressed: Style simple at the 
base, deciduous : Seed naked. E.) 
SCH(E7NUS. (Bloss. none : Spike of very few flowers: Cal. 
chaffy scales, fasciculated ; outer ones barren : Seed 
roundish: Style simple at the base, deciduous. E.) 
(RHYNCHOSPCKRA. Bloss. none: Spike of very few flow¬ 
ers : Cal. imbricated all round, with many smaller, 
empty, external ones: Seed beaked with the dilated, 
hardened, permanent base of the style. E.) 
(3) Flowers with valves like Grasses and husk-like calyxes. Stamens 
and pistils in different flowers. 
CA'REX. (Barr. FI. Catkin imbricated : Cal. one valve or 
scale: Bloss. none. 
Fert. FI. Catkin imbricated : Cal. one-valved: Bloss. 
none: Summits three, rarely two: Seed one, in¬ 
vested with a swelling tunic. E.) 
(KOBRE'SIA. Bari'. FI. Catkin with opposite scales, imbri¬ 
cated in two rows : Cal. inner scale : Bloss. none. 
Fert. FI. Cal. outer scale : Bloss. none: Seed one, 
naked. E.) 
TY'PHA. Catkin cylindrical: Bloss. none. 
Barr. FI. Calyx indistinct, three-leaved. 
Fert. FI. Catkin under the barren flowers : Calyx 
soft hairs: Seed one, sessile on the hair like clown. 
