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S C I R P U S casfpitofus.
Scaly-Jialked Club-rujli.
TRIANDRIA Monogyma.
G en. C har. Glumes chaffy, imbricated every way,
all fertile. Cor. none. Seed 1.
Spec. C har. Stem round, ftriated, fheathed, and
inverted with numerous fcales, at the bafe. Spike
terminal. Outer glumes largeft.
Sy n . Scirpus caefpitofus. Linn. Sp. P i. 71. Sm. FI.
Brit. 49. Hudf. 17. With. 73. Hull. 13.
Relh. 18. Abbot. 10. Rel. Rudb. t. 28. ƒ . 1 .
S. montanus, capitulo breviori. Raii Syn. 429.
C o m m o n on barren turfy heaths, among ling and coarfe
grafles, flowering in July.
Roots perennial, fibrous, not creeping, of many zigzag,
thick, Ample fibres. Stems numerous, in denfe tufts, ereft,
from 2 inches to a foot high, liriated, fmooth; clothed at the
bafe with 2 or 3 very fhort leaves with long membranous
furrowed (heaths, and inverted moreover with numerous, imbricated,
ovate, thick, furrowed, white and ' Aiming fcales,
feemingly abortive leaves, (for the innermoft are often pointed,)
which clearly diftinguifh this fpecies from fome nearly related
to it. The fpikes are fmall, folitary, terminal, of a reddifli
chefnut colour, fhining, ere6t, of which the two outer glumes
are the largeft and have a leafy point; and though every glume
has its own 3 ftamina and ftyle, thefe larger ones only, for
the moft part, ripen feed. Stigma generally in 3, rarely 4,
divifions. Seed elliptical, triangular, fmooth, brown with
green edges, its bafe furrounded by about 6 briftles, rathe?
longer than the feed, forked at their points.
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