102 TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Scirpus. 
Chocolate-headed Club-rush. (Welsh: Clwp-jfraynen goch-ddu. E.) 
Highland mountains. Pentland Hills. Grev. Edin. Ellingham Fens, 
Norfolk. Mr. Woodward. (On Poringland Heath, near Norwich. Mr. 
Crowe. In ditches near Bungay. Mr. Woodward. Prestwick Carr, 
Northumberland. Mr. Winch. Hinton and Foulmire Moors, Cambridge¬ 
shire. Relhan. Bog on Epping Forest, between Walthamstow and 
Wanstead. Mr. E. Forster, jun. Bot. Guide. Houghton Moor, near 
Newbold, and Marshes near Beverley. Teesdale. AberfFraw, Anglesey. 
Welsh Bot. E.) P. August. 
S. flu'itans. (Straws cylindrical, alternate: stem leafy, branched, 
flaccid: summits two: seed destitute of bristles. 
Dicks. H. S. — E. Bot. 216— FL Dan. 1082— H. Ox. viii. 10. 31— Scheuch. 
7. 20. 
Spikes terminal, of few flowers. Stem flexuose, most slender in the lower 
part. Leaves awl-shaped, keeled, spreading at nearly a right angle with 
their sheaths; those under water almost capillary. Flower-stalks two to 
three inches long. Summits long and feathery. Sm. E.) Stems floating. 
Plant from six to eight inches in length. 
Floating Club-rush or Club-grass. (Welsh: Clwp-frwynen nofiad- 
wy. E.) Shallow waters on heaths, and in ditches. Charley Forest, in 
bogs and old gravel pits. Pulteney. In small rills of water about New¬ 
ton Cartmel. Mr. Hall. Salesmoor, near Manchester. Mr. Robson. (On 
Putney and Hounslow Heaths. Hudson. In ditches near Cleadon, Dur¬ 
ham. Mr. Winch. Anglesey. Welsh Bot. Braid Hill marshes. Grev. 
Edin. E.) P. July. 
(2) Spikes several ; straw cylindrical. 
S. lacus'tris. Straw cylindrical, naked: spikes several, egg-shaped, 
on fruit-stalks, terminal: (bracteas generally much shorter 
than the panicle. Sm. 
Hook. Fl.Lond.9 1— E. Bot. 666— FI. Dan. 1142. E.)— H. Ox. viii. 10. 1— 
Ger. 31. 3— C. B. th. 178— J. B. ii. 522. 2 —Dod. 605. 1—Ger. Em. 35. 3 
— Park. 1191. 1— Leaves , Trag. 674. 1. 
(As a species, it is readily known from every other, by its great size (several 
feet in height), the roundness of the stem from the base to the summit, 
and its large panicle of spikelets, which rises above the involucres. 
Hook. 
Bull-rush. In clear ditches, ponds, and the borders of lakes and rivers. 
P. July—Aug. E.) * 
Var. 2. (Stem glaucous, two feet high. Panicle not higher than the brac- 
tea. Spikes more crowded, darker, with broader glumes, dotted with 
purple. Sm. E.) 
* When fodder is exhausted, cattle will live upon it. Cottages are sometimes 
thatched, and pack-saddles staffed, with it. Bottoms of chairs are commonly made of 
this rush. If cut at one year old- it makes the fine bottoms : coarser are made of it at 
two years old ; and such as are still older, mixed with the leaves of Iris pseud-acorus, 
make the coarsest of all. Mats are likewise formed, either of S. lacustris alone, or 
mixed with the aforesaid leaves. (Employed to a great extent in filling up the seams 
between the staves of casks. In hot weather the Tartars lie upon mattresses made of 
these rushes. FI. Lond. E.) Goats and swine eat it. Cows and sheep refuse it. 
