TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Sch<enus. 107 
( Jacq. PI. Par. 207 — E. Pot. 1309. E.)— H. Ox. viii. 11. 13- — Fuclis. 453 — 
Trag. 915/ ( improperly referred by C. B. to his C. rot. vulg .)— J. B. ii. 
501. 1 — Matt. 26. left half of the fig. — Ger. 28. 1— Dod. 338. 2 — Eob. 
Obs. 40. 1 — Ger. Em. 30. i— Parle. 146.3. ( descr. n. 4.) C.B. Th. 216 — 
Blackw. 316 —Branch of a panicle, Scheuch. 8. 12. 
{Stem two to three feet high, with a very large umbel. E.) Fruit-stalks 
sometimes twelve or thirteen, forming a sort of umbel, the outer spokes 
of which become gradually shorter and shorter. Spikets slender, chesnut- 
coloured. Scop. 
Sweet Cyprus. English Galingale. Isle of Purbeck, near a chapel 
on the side towards Portland Island. Ray. (Diligent inquiry has failed 
to find it there. Pulteney. E.) Not found on St. Faith’s Bogs, as men¬ 
tioned by Huds. Ed. 2. (By a little rivulet that runs into Whit- 
sand Bay, between St. David’s town and St. David’s Head, the only 
certain British station of this plant. July 25, 1775. Sir J. Cullum, Bart. 
Never found near Norwich. FI. Brit. It has since been gathered in an 
old fish-pond at the back of a cottage at Walton in Gordano, Somerset¬ 
shire, by Mr. Dyer. E. Bot. E.) P. July.* 
(C. fus'cus. Umbel compound, with three unequal leaves beneath: 
spikes crowded, spreading every way : stigmas three: straw tri¬ 
angular. 
Hook. FI. Lond. 85— FI. Dan. 179— Leers, 9. t. 1. f 2. 
Stems about six inches high, smooth and pliant. Spikes numerous. Gl. 
brown, more or less dark, pale at the keel; the lower ones gradually 
deciduous with the seed. Stamens two. Hook, though other authors 
describe them as three. 
Brown Cyperus. Cyperus fuscus. Linn. &c. Discovered by A. H. Ha¬ 
worth, Esq. on the sides of a ditch in a meadow half a mile from Little 
Chelsea. A. Sept. 
Mr. W. Christy has favoured us with a specimen, (also from the neighbour¬ 
hood of Little Chelsea), of what we are disposed to consider a diminutive 
variety of C. fuscus, not more than three inches high, and greatly re¬ 
sembling Moris. H. Ox. 8. t. 11. f. 38. C. longus minimus pulcher 
panicula compressa nigricante.” E.) 
SCHQE'NUSf. Husks chaff-like, of one valve, crowded, the 
outer ones barren. Bloss. none. Seed one; globose 
within the husks. Spike of very few flowers. 
(S. nigricans. Straw cylindrical, naked: spike an egg-shaped head: 
involucrum two-leaved, one valve awl-shaped, longer than the 
other. 
Dicks. H. S. — E. Bot. 1121— II. Ox. viii. 10.28— Fructif Scheuch. 7. 12. 14. 
About a foot high. Boot of strong fibres, crowned with black scales or 
sheaths, remnants of old leaves. Leaves setaceous, rigid, shorter than 
the straw head of flowers, formed of several dark purplish spikelets. 
* The root is agreeably aromatic to the smell, and warm and bitter to the taste. Mo¬ 
dern practice disregards it j but perhaps it is not inferior to some more costly medicines 
brought from abroad. 
t Sxoivo i, a rope 5 for making which this plant is adapted. E.) 
