140 TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Sparganium. 
casual observer by its tall stems and great mace-like, brown spikes, which 
flower in July. E.) 
Great Cat’s-tail. Reed Mace. (Irish: Bodan dull. Welsh: Cynf- 
fon y gatk. HesgenfelfedogJ'wyaf. E.) Banks of rivers, fish-ponds, and 
in marshes. P. July.* * 
T. angustifo'lia. Leaves semi-cylindrical: (equal with the culm. E.) 
Spike with the barren and fertile florets a little distant. 
Curt. 171—(. E. Bot. 1456. E.)— FI. Dan. 81 5 — Tourn. 301— II. Ox. viii. 
13. row 3. 2— Parle. 1204. 2. 
Leaves, spike, and spike-stalk much more slender, though the plant grows 
as tall and as firm as T. latifolia. The fertile and barren spikes generally 
about one inch asunder. Woodw. Leaves sheathing the stem, semi- 
cylindrical below, flat and strap-shaped towards the end. 
Lesser Cat’s-taie. (Welsh: Cynffon y gath leiaf. E.) Ditches and 
ponds. Clay pits in Norfolk and’Suffolk, frequent. Mr. Woodward. 
Pool near Chartley House. Mr. Bagot. (Sides of the Cam below Ditton. 
Dr. Manningham. Crosby, near Liverpool. Dr. Bostock. In a pit on 
Alne Hill, near Sheffield, Warwickshire: Rufford in Purt. In Angle¬ 
sey. Welsh. Bot. Loch of Lindore, Fifeshire. Mr. D. Don. Hook. Scot. 
Middle of Woolwich Common. P. June—July. E.) 
Var. 2. When growing among rocks, and its roots confined, it becomes 
smaller, with spikes more numerous. Linn. 
(On the authority of Dillenius, Smith thinks this variety may be considered 
a species : distinguished by leaves linear, flat, half the length of the 
culm: barren and fertile catkins distant: culm very slender.” Mr. 
Winch concurs in this opinion as regards specimens from Switzerland; 
but to discover a plant exactly answering to the above description, grow¬ 
ing indigenously in Britain, may be no easy task. E.) 
(E. Bot 1457. E.)— Loh. Adv. 41. Ic. 1. 81— J. B. ii. 540. 
(Dwarf Cat’s-tail. T. minor. FI. Brit. E.) Hounslow Heath. R. Syn. 
SPARGA'NIUM.f Flowers crowded into spherical heads: 
barren and fertile on the same plant. 
Bar. Cal. three-leaved. 
Fert. Cal. three-leaved. Fruit a juiceless Drupa, su¬ 
perior, of one cell, and one seed. 
S. ramo'sum. Leaves triangular at the base, the sides concave: fruit- 
stalks branched. 
Curt. 342—(E. Bot. 744. E.)— Kniph. 12— Leers 13. 11— H. Ox. viii. 13. 
row 2. 1—• Tourn. 302. C. B. Th. 228— Dod. 601. 2— Lob. Obs. 41. 3; Ic. 
i. 80. 1— Ger. Em,. 45. 1— Parle. 1205. 1— Pet. 72. 9— Cam. Epit. 732— 
J. B. ii. 541. 1— Matth. 990— Ger. 41. 1. 
* (The down of the amentum has been used to stuff cushions and mattresses. Both 
this and the following species are highly ornamental on the margins of ponds, and 
afford favourable shelter to wild fowl; but in pools of small extent they should be cau¬ 
tiously introduced as they increase b} T root more rapidly than may be desirable in such 
situations. The spikes matured form curious and beautiful objects, and it is said the 
plants will flourish even in a moist border of the garden. E.) 
*f- (From ff7roi.pyuvov, a band, or ribbon j descriptive of the long leaves, as in S. na - 
tans. E.) 
