[TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Typha. 
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(C. secalina. “ Fruit deeply concave at the inner side, being so greatly 
compressed as to have no considerable cavity, by which character it es¬ 
sentially differs from C. hirta; the beak, moreover, being longer, nar¬ 
rower, rough at the edges, and somewhat membranous at the orifice.” 
C. stictocarpa. In habit agreeing with C. pulla and globularis , but with 
cc fruit all over finely besprinkled with minute, brown, or reddish, de¬ 
pressed dots.” 
C. angustifolia. “ Leaves linear, acute, extremely narrow, channelled, or 
involute.” 
According to Smith, are supposed to have been observed in Scotland, but 
seem to require confirmation. E.) 
(KOBRE'SIA. Barr. FI. Catkin with opposite scales , imbri¬ 
cated in two rows. Cal. inner scale. Bloss none. 
Fert. FI. Cal. Outer scale. Bloss. none. Seed one, 
loose. 
K. carici'na. Catkins aggregate, crowded, alternate. 
E. Bot. 1410. 
Roots densely tufted, crowded with the brown sheathing bases of old 
leaves. Stems solitary, simple, naked, round, striated, from three to 
five inches high ; angular and rough-edged at the top. Leaves several, 
radical, spreading or recurved, linear, channelled, acute, rough-edged, 
shorter than the stem; their longish sheaths closely embracing its base, 
each crowned with a short, membranous stipula. Catkins four or five, 
alternate, brown, crowded into an ovate, upright spike, not an inch 
long, having a short, sheathing, brown, membranous bractea, or two, 
at its base. 
Compound-headed Kobresia. K t caricina. Willd. Carex hybricla. 
Schk. Schosnus monoicus. E. Bot. On mountains, in moist muddy 
spots. In the county of Durham. Mr. Dickson. On Cronkley Fell, and 
about Widdy Bank. In Teesdale Forest. Rev. J. Harriman. 
P. Aug. Sm. Eng. FI. E.) 
TY'THA.* Catkin cylindrical: Bloss. none. 
Barr. FI. Cal. Three bristle-shaped leaves. 
Fert. FI. Florets on the same plant, below the bar¬ 
ren ones. 
Cal. Soft hairs : Seed one, on a feathery stalk. 
T. latifo'lia. Leaves somewhat sword-shaped: spike with the bar¬ 
ren and fertile florets close together. 
Curt. \n—(E. Bot. 1455. E.)—Kniph. 6— Fuchs. 823— J. B. 527. 3—H. 
Ox. viii. 13. row 3. I—FI. Dan. 64 5—Lonic. i. 174. 1—Matth. 863— Ger. 
42— Trag. 681— Dod. 604— Lob. Obs. 42. 1 ; Ic. 1. 8L. 1— Ger. Em. 46— 
Lonic. i. 173.1. b.—Park. 1204. l—J. B. ii. 527. 1 and 2. 
( Stem six feet high; leaves three feet long, about an inch wide, convex on 
one side. Spike , or cylindrical club, dark brown, six inches long. 
Smith justly remarks, this singular plant must be familiar to the most 
* (Tu<f>7] of the ancient Greeks j from a bog or marsh ; the natural situation of 
these plants. E.) 
