106 TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Cyperus, 
(E. multicau'lis. Straw cylindrical: seed acutely triangular, as well 
as the permanent base of the style. 
E. Bot. 1187. 
Whole plant rather smaller than the preceding. Stems very numerous, 
eight or ten inches high, with one or two purplish sheaths at the base. 
Spike smaller, more acute and slender, than in the last, and rather 
darker coloured. One or two of the lower flowers often viviparous. 
Seed smaller and browner than that of E. palustris , having a triangular 
beak. At the base of the germen are five or six rough bristles, more or 
less deciduous. Eng. FI. 
Many-stalked Spike-rush. Welsh: Clwp-frwynen galafawg. Scirpus 
midticaulis. FI. Brit. With. Ed. 6. S. palustris, (3 minor. Wahl. Hook. 
Linn. FI. Lapp. Turf bogs, and wet commons, not very uncommon 
either in Scotland or England. First noticed in the Isle of Skye, by 
Mr. John Mackay, in 1794, and in England by Mr. E. Forster. We 
have specimens from Mr. Winch, who is inclined to consider this plant 
merely a variation of the preceding. In general appearance, they are 
alike, and the distinctive characteristics, as above stated, have been ques¬ 
tioned by other authorities. P. July. E.) 
(E. acicula'ris. Summits three: seed numerously furrowed, without 
bristles at the base: filaments permanent. 
Hook. FI. Lond. 49 — E. Bot. 749 — FI. Dan. 287 — H. Ox. viii. 10. row 
3. 37— Plotfs Ox. f. t. 9 ./. 3 —Pluk. 40. 7. 
Forms a dense turf, from one to four inches high. Straw and barren stems, 
(sometimes taken for leaves, of which properly there are none,) as fine as 
a horse hair ; according to Smith decidedly quadrangular; to Hooker, 
compressed, grooved. We have now several specimens before us, yet 
so slender and setaceous is this minute rush, that even with the aid of the 
magnifier we should scarcely venture to decide this point, though we 
are inclined to believe that the stem does in fact assume both forms. 
Glumes acuminate, brown. Seed whitish, egg-oblong, furrowed longitu¬ 
dinally, having a small blunt beak. This plant has been by different 
authors assimilated with Cyperus, according to the suggestion of Retzius ; 
with Scirpus more generally, and recently with the new genus Eleocharis. 
Its characters must be admitted to be somewhat anomalous; and the 
absence of setae at the base of the seed, which bristles, together with 
the seed being crowned with the permanent base of the style, are essen¬ 
tial constituents, render us apprehensive it will scarcely find a resting 
place here. 
Least-spike-rush. Slender Club-rush. Welsh: Clwp-frwynen leiaf. 
Scirpus acicularis. Huds. Lightf. Hook. Sm. FI. Brit. Cyperus acicula - 
ris. With. Ed. 6. Watery heaths, marshes, and bogs. Malvern Chase. 
Stokes. Epping Forest, near Wanstead. Mr. E. Forster, jun. FI. Brit. 
Abundant in Anglesey. Rev. Hugh Davies. By Loch Clunie, Perth¬ 
shire. Mr. Winch. Margin of Loch Foy, Derry. E. Murphy, Esq. 
P. Aug. E.) 
CYPE'RUS.* Husks chaff-like : tiled in two rows. Bloss. none. 
Seed one: naked. 
C. lon'gus. Stem triangular : umbel leafy, more than doubly com¬ 
pound: fruit-stalks naked: spikes alternate. 
* (Kv7 rapes, a vase; in allusion to the form of the root, E.) 
