C 131 3
S CIRPUS paluftris.
Marfh Club-rujh.
T R IA N D R IA Monogynia•
G en. C h ar. Glumes chaffy, imbricated every way, all
fertile. Cor. none. Seed one, beardlefs.
S p e c . C h ar. C u lm ro u n d , n a k ed . S p ik e fomewha t
o v a l, terminal.
S y n . S c irp u s p a lu ftr is . Linn. Sp. PL 70. Hudf. FI,
An. 17. With. Bot.Arr. 46. Relh. Cant. 18.
S c . E q u ife t i c a p itu lo ma jor i. Rail Syn. 4 2 9 .
V e r y common every where in ditches, marfhes, and rivulets.
The root is perennial, creeping, throwing out many yel-
lowifh fibres, and producing thick tufts of upright, cylindrical,
fmooth, naked items, becoming ftriated when dry, clothed at
their bafe with a clofe, blunt {heath, which is inverted with
two or three other fhorter, more membranous, and reddilh
{heaths. The plant feems perfedtly deftitute of leaves. The
fpikes are folitary at the end of each Item, erect, oblong,
appearing oval from the fpreading of their fcales in flowering,
and fometimes accompanied by a fmall, membranous, clofe-
prefled bradtea. Glumes oval, folitary, acute, with a membranous
edge. Filaments {lender, as in all grafly plants; antherse
large, yellow, projecting entirely beyond the glumes. Style
fliort, with three long, taper, downy ftigmas. Seed roundifh,
fmooth, yellow, with a brown apex. This Scirpus flowers in
June and July, and varies very much in fize occafionally.