T R I G L O C H I N paluftre.
Marß) Arrow-Grafs.
H E X A N D R I 4 Trigynia.
Gen. Char. • Cal. 3-leaved. Petals 3, like the calyx.
Style none. Capfule hurtling at the bate.
Spec. Char. Capfules linear, of three cells,
Syn. Triglochin paluftre. Linn. Sp. P I. 482. Hudf.
F I. A n. 15a. With. P ot. A rr. 378, Relh.Cant.
146. Sibth. Ox. 119.
Juncajo paluftris & vulgaris. R ail Syn. 435.
Gramen aquaticum tpicatum. Ger. em. 13,
T-I- HIS fpecies of Triglochin is full as common in wet boggy
meadows, as that we have figured tab. 255 is in fait marlhes,
flowering about the middle of fummer.
The root is fibrous, tufted, and perennial. Leaves ruthy,
fomewhat more flender and lefs flefhy than in the maritimum,
but like them femicylindrical, with a membranous, vaginating,
intrafoliaceous ftipula. Stalk folitary, ereft, longer than the
leaves, bearing a long, thick-fet, but flender, fpike of numerous
flowers, fmaller than thofe of the fpecies juft mentioned.
The moft ftriking and certain diftinction however between the
two is that the fruit of T. paluftre is much more long and flender,
having only 3 cells and 3 valves inftead of 6. Thefe valves,
feparating from the bafe, look like a three-barbed arrow-head.
All cattle will eat the Marfh Arrow-Grafs, and Dr. Withering
fays cows are extremely fond of i t ; yet we know not that
it has as yet obtained much attention from the experimental
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