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(About two feet high; with a few sword-shaped leaves. E.) Leaves flat 
towards the end. Globes of barren flowers uppermost; (yellow. Fertile 
flowers greenish. Germens with the style at length forming prickly 
heads as large as a hazel nut. Grev. E.) 
Greater Bur-reed. (Branched Bur-reed. Irish: Seisg Madrah. 
Welsh: Cleddyjlys cangenawg. E.) S. erectum. Linn. Curtis having 
characterized and figured another species; equally erect; we have 
adopted his specific character and trivial name. 
Ditches, marshes; and banks of rivers. P. July.* 
S. sim'plex. Leaves triangular at the base; the sides flat; fruit-stalks 
unbranched. Curt. 
Licks. H. S.— Curt. 341— (E. Bot. 745. E.)— FI. Dan. 932— Dod. 601. 3— 
Lob. Obs. 41. 4; Ic. i. 80. 2— Ger. Em. 45. 2— Park. 1206. 2— J. B. ii. 
541. 2— Ger. 41. 2— Pet. 72. 10— Park. 1205. 2. lowermost corner — H. 
Ox. viii. 13. row 2. 2. 
Grows upright like the preceding; but is a much smaller plant; though the 
globes of flowers are larger. 
(Unbranched Bur-reed. Welsh': Cleddyjlys undwf syth. E.) Marshy 
places; and sides of pools; particularly such as are found on heaths; and 
have been old gravel pits. P. July. 
S. na'tans. Leaves prostrate; strap-shaped; flat. 
Licks. IT. S.—E. Bot. 273— FI. Dan. 260—- Pet. 72. 11. 
Flowering stem very slender; not rising more than six inches above the 
water; undivided; supporting a few balls of sessile flowers; and those 
not larger than a pea. Leaves flat; floating on the water to a consi¬ 
derable length: Woodw. (somewhat pellucid. E.) Both before the 
stem shoots up; and after the flowering; the leaves; which much resem¬ 
ble grass, float on the surface of the water like those of Festuca Jluitans. 
The terminal ball of flowers is entirely barren, the lower ones are fertile. 
Style short. Summit slanting. (Stigma solitary, very short, ovate, 
peltate, oblique, on a short, thick style. The form of the stigma clearly 
distinguishes this species. Sm. E.) 
Floating Bur-reed. S. simplex natans fi. Huds. Pools, lakes, and slow 
rivers about Norwich. Llanberris; and in Yorkshire and Westmoreland. 
St. Faith’s Newton Bogs. Mr. Pitchford. Stagnant waters in the Moss of 
Restenat, Angus-shire. Mr. Brown. (Burwell Fens, Cambridgeshire. 
Rev. Mr. Hemsted. Near Manchester. Dr. Hull. FI. Brit. Cors y bol, 
Cors ddygai, kc. Anglesey. Welsh. Bot. E.) P. July. 
DIGYNIA. 
PHAL'ARIS.'f* Cal. two-valved, one-flowered, keeled, longer 
than, and inclosing the blossom : Nectary two-leaved. 
* (Curtis observes that the larvae of a Tenthredo antTof Phalxna Festucx prey upon 
the leaves; and that the rare insect, SphexJissipes, may sometimes be detected in a web 
under the leaves. E.) 
t (Tocaop, shining; characteristic of the seeds. E.) 
