44 /Scirpus planifolius.
teristic of the flat leaves. The leaves are said by that botanist to be
nearly radical. All the specimens which I have found, with the exception
of one or two, have had radical leaves, and in those which had
alternate leaves, the alternation could readily be traced under a sheath,
formed by the leaves closely investing each other by folds, down to the
root. The table represents the plant about as large as it is usually
met with— specimens occasionally occur, which are larger. Grows in
damp boggy places in Jersey, near Woodbury, flowering in May—
Rare.
