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S C I R P U S Savii.
Savi’s Club-rush.
TRIANDRIA JVLonogynia
Gen. Char. Spike of numerous flowers, all perfect.
Glumes imbricated in every direction, expanded,
concave, uniform, except 1 or 2 occasionally.
Corolla none. Filaments flat. Anthers linear.
Style neither jointed nor dilated at the base, deciduous.
Stigmas 2 or 3, downy. Seed with or
without rough bristles beneath; often pointed.
—Sm.
Spec. Char. Stems round, leafy below. Spikes 1—3,
terminal, shorter than the unequally two-leaved involucre.
F ru it subglobose, obtusely triquetrous,
rough with slightly elevated points.
Syn. Scirpus Savii. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. 207.
Bertoloni FI. Ital. v. 1. 288.
Isolepis Saviana. Rcem. et Sch. Syst. Veget. Mant.
2.V.2.63. Dietr.in W illd.Sp.Pl.ed.Q.v . 2 .100.
Scirpus filiformis. Sav. FI. Pis. v. 1. 47.
Scirpus setaceus. Riv. Bern. Cent. 1. 72. (excl.
plur. syn.)
Isolepis Hibernica. Schmidt MS. (apudDom. Shuttle
worth.)
(3. Spikes solitary, with a shorter involucral bractea.
Scirpus acicularis. Sealy in herb. nost.
T^/OOT fibrous. Culm very slender, erect, 8—10 inches
to a foot in height, several times branched in a dichotomous
manner at the base, and, below only bearing- a few leaves
much shorter and slenderer than the culms, otherwise
resembling- them, and terminating rather long, membranaceous
sheaths. Spikelets ovate, 1—3, terminal (unless the
larger leaf of the involucre be considered a portion of the
culm), subtended by a 2-leaved involucre, of which one leaf
is about twice longer than the spikelets, setaceous, green,
with a broad membranaceous margin on each side at the