S CIR P U S glaucus,
Glaucous Club-rush,
TRIANDRIA Monogynia,
G en. Char. Glumes chaffy, imbricated every way,
all fertile. Cor. none, Seed 1.
Spec. Char. Stem round, naked, glaucous. Panicle
cymose, not higher than the bractea. Spikelets
conglomerated, ovate. Stigmas two.
S yn. Scirpus lacustris (3. Sm. FI. Brit. 52. Huds. 19,
With. 75. Hull.ed. 2. 17,
S. palustris humilior. Scheuchz. A g r . 356.
Juncus sive Scirpus medius. Raii Syn. 428. Bauh9
Theatr. 181.
T h e late Mr. J. Mackay sent us specimens of this in 1800,
from the sides of a salt-marsh, to the west of Ardbigland in
Galloway. That in our plate was gathered near ditches in
the marshes at Shoreham, Sussex, by Mr. W . Barrer, who has
found the same near Cley, Norfolk; nor is it indeed a rare
plant in such places. W e do not hesitate to separate this
from S. lacustris, t. 666, as it differs in being much smaller,
(not above two feet high) of a glaucous hue, with a less compound
panicle, which does not rise above the upper bractea,
The spikelets moreover are crowded, ovate, darker in colour,
their glumes broader, and, as Dr. Stokes well observes in W ithering,
dotted with purple in their paler part. The stem
being round all the way up, besides most of the above characters,
distinguishes it insmcarinatus, t. 1983. The stigmas are
only two, as in this latter, but we find some flowers with two,
others with three, in Norfolk specimens of lacustris.