TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Scirpus. 
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Stem slender, six inches high when in flower, twice as tall, like the other 
species, when in seed. Leaves few, narrow, much keeled at the back, 
grooved or channelled on the upper side. Spikes two or three, oblong, 
at first sessile, then pedunculated, longer than the involucre. Glumes 
oblong-ovate, greenish brown, obtuse, membranous, ribbed. Hook. 
Slender Mountain Cotton-grass. E. gracile. Roth. Hook. E+ iri- 
quetrum. Schrad. Host. P- July* E.) 
(E. pubescens of Eng. FI. distinguished by the stalks of the spikes baling 
downy, appears questionable, and not yet sufficiently understood, E.) 
SCIR'PUS.* Husks chaff-like, tiled on every side: B'Joss. 
none : Seed one, triangular, often woolly : ( Style simple 
at the base, deciduous. E.) 
(1) Spike single. 
S. ciespito'sus. (Straw cylindrical, scored, naked, sheathed with nu¬ 
merous scales at the base: spike terminal: outer glumes largest, 
with leafy points. 
E.Bot . 1029. E .)-Scheubh. 7 . 18— <7. B. ii. 523. 2 —C. B. Th. 79—FI. 
Dan . 167—77. Ox. 8. 10. row 3. 3 5—Pluk. 40. 6. 
In dense tufts. Stem from two to six inches high. Length of the spike 
and of its lower scales, in some specimens, extremely uncertain, as long 
as the spike, in others not half so long, and sometimes considerably 
longer, the point of the outer valve being extended into a kind of awn. 
This species is best distinguished from the preceding 7 py the green and 
leaf-like appearance of the upper sheaths at the bottom ofJdie straw. 
( Summits three, rarely four. Seed with about six for ked bristles at its 
base. E.) 
Scaly-stalked Club-rush. Deer’s Hair. (Welsh: Clwp-frwynen y 
fawnog. Gaelic: Cip-chaan-du . E.) Turf bogs arid dry heaths. 
P. J une—July.f 
S. pauciflo'rus. Straw cylindrical, scored, nuked, sheathed at the 
base: spike terminal; with few flowers ; longer than the outer 
glumes. E.) 
Scheuch. 7. 19— {E.Bot. 1122. E .)—Ger. Em.. <2 1. 3— Park. 3270.7. 
S. pauciflorus is very different in its habit from S~ ccespitosus , for, besides its 
f rowing single and not cespitose, the stems generally decline and separate 
om each other, instead of being upright and -close together; the stems 
are also more rigid, of shorter growth, and the jlowers fewer, as the 
name expresses. Woodw. (Smith also judge s this plant to be perfectly 
distinct from S. ccespitosus , with which Linn seus and Hudson had con¬ 
founded it; particularly in being almost who? fly destitute of scales at the 
roots, in the sheaths being straight, blunt. and lopped, in the lower 
glumes being shorter than the spike, and ir i having root-leaves. Smith, 
however, suggests the idea, that what ar' * here called leaves, ought 
perhaps rather to be considered as barren straws. FI. Brit. Seed sur¬ 
rounded by a few bristles. E.) 
* (From sirpo, to tie, or bind, as with rushes. E.) 
t (Of some value on the Highland mountains, as sj pring food for sheep. Lightfoot E.) 
