2 3 [ 9*9 ]
SCIRPUS fylvaticus.
Wood Club-rujh.
TRIANDRIA Monogynia.
G en. Char. Glumes chaffy, imbricated every way,
all fertile. Cor. none. Seed i .
Spec. C har. Stem triangular, leafy. Cyme leafy,
terminal: its ftalks naked and repeatedly fub-
divided. Spikes cluttered.
Syn . Scirpus fylvaticus. Linn. Sp. PI. 75. Sm. FI.
Brit. 57. Hudf. 21 . With. 77. Hull. 14.
Sibth. 24.
Cyperus gramineus. Raii Syn. 426.
J V i "r . GROULT, a very affiduous inveftigator of Englifh
plants, gathered this fpecimen of the Scirpus fylvaticus between
Hampftead and Highgate. It is perennial, flowers in June
and July, and loves moift fhady fltuations, but is by no means
frequently to be met with.
Root fibrous. Stem 3 feet or more in height, Ample, erect,
leafy, triangular, fmooth. Leaves linear, broad, taper-pointed,
ftrongty ribbed, fmooth, except the margin of the uppetmoft;
the radical ones numerous, forming a denfe tuft; the others
alternate. Panicle cymofe, fpreading, repeatedly branched,
the ftalks rough, each accompanied by a fheathing bra&ea
at its bafe. Spikes terminal, moft of them cluftered, fmall,
ovate. Glumes ovate, entire, bluntifh, keeled, green with a
tinge of brown towards the extremity. Stamina flender.
Style deeply three-cleft. Seed orbicular, with 3 angles, com-
prefied, whitifh, fmooth, its bafe enveloped with 6 or 8 briftles
twice as long as the feed when arrived at maturity.