' fyPHA m a j o r . G r e a t e r C a t s t a i l .
TYPHA Lirnal Gen. Plant. Monoec ia T r ian d r ia .
M a s c . Amentum cylindricum. Cal. obfoletas, 3 phyllus.
Cor. o. F em. Amentum cylindricum, infra mafculos. CaL
capillo villofo. Cor. o. Bern. 1. infidens pappo capiilari.
Rail Syn. H erb® g r am in ifo l i® non cu lm ifer® flore im perfe c to seu st am in eo .
TYPHA lattfoUa foliis fiibenfiformibus, fpica mafcula femineaque approximatis. Lin. Syjl. Vegetab.
p. 702. Sp. pi. 1377.
TYPHA clava unica. Haller, hifi. n. 130$.
TYPHA latifolia. Scopoli FI. Carniol. p. 214.
T YPHA paluftris major. 'Bauhin. p. 20.
TYPHA paluftris maxima. Parkinfon, i204i
TYPHA Ger. emac. 46. Rail Syn. p. 436. Great Catftail or Reed-mace. Hudfon. FI. AngU ed. 2. p. 4.00.
Lightfoot. FI. Scot. 538.
[RADIX perennis, repens, craffitie pollicis, articulata,
fpongiofa, radiculis, fibrillofis, albidis inftrufta,
furculi alhidi, teneri, in mucronem rigidam
abeuntes, more tritici canini.
[CULMUS tripedalis ad fexpedalem, fimplex, ere&us,
foliofus, teres, lævis.
[FOLIA alterna, erefta, tortuofa, bafi fubenfiformia,
carnofa, fuperne plana, glauca, unciam fere
lata, bi aut tripedalia, longiffimâ vagina cau-
lem involventia.
jSPATHÆ duæ, deciduæ, una ad fpicæ mafculæ bafin,
altera ad ejus medium.
[FLORES mafculi numerofiffimi in Amento ere£lo, cuL
- mum terminante.
I CALYX, nullus.
[COROLLA, nulla.
[STAMINA : F il am en tum antequam antheræ polli-
nem dimittunt, breviffimum, fuftinens An-
theram unam ad quatuor, demiflo polline pendulum,
et antheris longius ; A ntheræ ob-
longæ, flavæ, quadrifulcatæ, glandulâ viref-
cente terminatæ. fig. 1.2. 3. 4.
J FLORES feminei numerofiffimi, in amento, mafculino
fubjedto et contiguo.
j PISTILLUM: GERMRNovatum, minimum, pedunculo
brevi infidens; St y lu s fuperne incraflatus ;
St ig m a nigrum,
j SEMEN minimum, pedunculatum, ariftatum, pedunculo
pappofo. fig. 5.
RECEPTÀCULUM amenti mafculi pilofum.
: ROOT perennial, -creeping, the thicknefs o f one's
thumb, jointed, fpongy, furniffied with fmall
fibrous roots of a whitiffi colour, the young
Ihoots white, tender, terminating in a lharp
; hard point, like that of the common couch.
: grafs.
| STALK from three to fix feet high, fimple, upright,
leafy, round and fmooth.
: LEAVES alternate, upright, twifted, at bottom fword
ffiaped and fleffiy, at top flat, and of a blueifli
colour, about an inch in breadth and two or
: three feet in length, inclofing the ftalk in a
very long fheath.
: BHEATHS two, deciduous, one placed- at the bottom
| of the male fpike, the other at the middle.
5 FLOWERS of the male very numerous,-, in an upright
Catkin, terminating the ftalk.
i CA L YX wanting.
■ COROLLA wanting.
; STAMINA: the F il am e n t before the Shedding of
the pollen is very ffiort, fuftaining from one
to four Antherae, the pollen being ffied, they
hang down and become longer than the antherae
; A n ther .® oblong, yellow, with four
grooves, and terminated by a greeniffi gland.
: fig- I 2- 3• 4-
: FLOWERS of the female extremely numerous, in a
catkin placed under and contiguous to the
male catkin.
: PISTILLUM : G ermen oval, very minute, fitting on
a ffiort footftalk; St y l e thickened above;
S t igm a black.
: SEED very fmall, fitting on a footftalk, and terminated
by an arifta, the footftalk downy, fir. c.
: RECEPTACLE of the male-catkin hairy.
THE appearance of the Typha Major, when its fpike is nearly ripe, is fufficiently ftriking to engage the attention
even of the moft incurious; it is not therefore to be wondered at, that Gentlemen, who are fond o f
Plants, ffiould introduce it on the edges of their ponds, or that Painters ffiould make it a confpicuous Plant
m their reprefentations of water; the Gentleman ffiould however be apprized, that it has a creeping root;
Pfoich encreafes very much, foon choaks up a fmall piece of water, and overpowers other aquatics; thus dif-
pcult to keep within proper bounds, the moft eligible mode o f cultivating it is found to be in fome border o f
I «ie garden, where, if the foil bemoift, it willflouriffi and produce fyikes more abundantly than in the water.