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TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Scntpus. 
(3) Straw triangular: spikes in panicles: panicle naked. 
S. tri'queter. Straw triangular, naked: spikes lateral, egg-shaped, 
blunt, nearly sessile or on fruit-stalks: sharp point of the straw 
upright: (summits two : seed smooth. 
Hook. FI. Lond. 92 — E. Bot. 1694. E.)— Pluk. 40. 2. 
( Stem a yard high, angles more or less acute. Spikes generally accom¬ 
panied by a small floral leaf; sometimes quite sessile. E. Bot. E.) The 
height of the pointed top of the straw above the clusters of florets varies 
in different specimens. Roth, by a nice discrimination, adds, this 
species has not a triangular culm with sharp edges, but one of three sides 
with blunt edges.” Annals of Botany, v. 1; and thus extending from the 
base to the summit. E.) 
Triangular Club-rush. Pointed or Three-square Club-rush. Sea 
shore; banks of large rivers exposed to the tide, as the Thames, both 
above and below London. (Acle Dam, between Norwich and Yarmouth, 
Mr. Woodward. E.) P. July—Aug. 
(4) Straw triangular: spikes in panicles : panicle leafy . 
S. sylvatYcus. Straw triangular, leafy: umbel leafy: fruit-stalks 
naked, trebly compound : spikes crowded: scales entire. 
Kniph. 12—(E. Bot. 919. E.)—C. B. Th. 90.— IT. Ox. viii. 11. 15— J. B. 
ii. 504. 2—Fl.Dan. 307 —Lob. Adv. 38. 1—Ger. Em. 30. 5— Park. 1171. 
2 — Branch of the umbel, Leers, 1. 4. 
Leaves very broad, keeled; terminating in a blunt, coloured projection : the 
edges and keel rough with strong hairs. Seeds encompassed with about 
six short hairs rising from the base. ( Spikes terminal, most of them 
clustered, small, ovate. Stamens slender. Style deeply three-cleft. E. 
Bot. Stem a yard high, very leafy. Spikelets very small, numerous, 
dark green, ovate. E.) 
Millet Cyperus Grass. Wood Club-rush. Wet shady places. Ditch- 
ingham, Norfolk. Mr. Stone. Near York. Mr. Aikin. A little east of 
Breakinbridge over the South Esk, on the south side. Mr. Brown. (About' 
Kendal. Mr. Gough. Between Hampstead and Highgate. Mr. Groult, 
in E. Bot. Garn Dingle, Denbighshire; between the cave and the river 
that runs from Henllan Mill. Mr. Griffith. By the river Stour, about 
Blandford; near White Cliff Mill, &c. Pulteney. On the banks of Team, 
and in Ravensworth woods, Durham. Winch Guide. Oversley Mill¬ 
pond. Purton. Edghaston Pool, near Birmingham, plentiful. E.) 
P. July. 
S. maritYmus. Straw triangular: panicle compact, and leafy: scales 
of the spiket three-cleft; the middle segment awl-shaped : 
(spikes clustered: summits three. E.) 
Var. 1. Round-rooted, (swelling into knots or tubers. E.) 
C. B. Pr. 24. Th. 215—Park. 1263. 4 — If. Ox. viii. 11. 9—Panicle, Scheuch. 
9. 9. 
Var. 2. Spreading. 
Curt. 284— (E. Bot. 542. E .)—Ger. 20. 7— C. B. Th. 8 6—Ger. Em. 22. 7— 
Park. 1266. 6. right-hand plant—H. Ox. viii. 11. 25 — J. B. ii. 495. 1. 
left-hand plant — Dod. 338. 1 — Lob . Obs . 39. 2— Branch of the panicle, 
Scheuch. 9. 7. and 8. 
