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S C I R P U S acicularis.
Leajl Club-rujh.
TRIANDRIA Monogynia.
G en. C har. Glumes chaffy, imbricated every way,
all fertile. Cor. none. Seed i.
S pec. C har. Stem with 4 angles, with a blunt fheath
at its bafe. Spike ovate, acute, terminal, folitary.
Outer glumes the largeft.
S y n . Scirpus acicularis. Linn. Sp. PI. 7 1 . ‘ Sm. FI.
Brit. 5 1 . Tludf. 18. Sibth. 23. Dickf. H. Sice,
fafc. 14. 1.
S. minimus, capitulis equifeti. Raii Syn. 429.
Cyperus acicularis. With. 78. Hull. 13.
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- H IS minute Scirpus grows in damp heathy places, where
water has ftagnated during the winter, but is very rarely met
with. Ourfpecimen came from Wan ft e ad Park, Eflex, in the
middle of Auguft.
Root fibrous, perennial. Stems numerous, fimple, from 2 to
4 inches high, very flender, ereft, roundifh when frefh, but
marked with 4 fmooth angles, which in drying become very
confpicuous. The bafe is invefted with a tight blunt beardlefs
fheath. Leaves few, fhorter than the Hems, obfoletely quadrangular,
being flat above, and fomewhat rounded beneath.
Spike fmall, folitary, terminal, ovate, acute, compofed of 5 or 6
flowers, whofe glumes are truly imbricated in every direction,
not two-ranked, fo that it properly belongs to this genus, and
by no means, either in charafter or habit, to Cyperus. Each
glume is fharply keeled, pointed; the margin membranous j
the 3 lowermoft are rather the largeft, and fometimes barren.
Seed elliptical, without any briftles at the bafe.