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Triglochin.] each carpel, basilar, erect, anatropous. Fruit of 3 or 6 free or connate coriaceous nutlets separating from a central axis. Seeds erect, cylindric or ovoid, terete or compressed; testa membranous; embryo straight.

1. T. striatum, Ruiz and Pav. Fl. Per. iii. 72; var. filifolium, ''Buch. Index Crit.'' (1868) 59.—Rhizome short, stoloniferous. Leaves numerous, very narrow-linear or almost filiform, semiterete, variable in length, shorter or rather longer than the scape. Scape 3–10 in. high; raceme usually occupying about one-half the length. Flowers numerous, shortly pedicelled, minute, about $1⁄12$ in. diam. Outer perianth-segments broadly ovate; inner smaller and narrower. Perfect stamens 3, at the base of the outer segments; three inner abortive, without pollen, sometimes altogether wanting. Fruit globose, $1⁄10$ in. diam., of 3 perfect carpels separating from a central axis and leaving 3 scale-like barren ones attached to it.—Buchenau in Pflanzenreich, Heft iv. 14. T. striatum, ''Benth. Fl. Austral.'' vii. 166. T. triandrum, ''Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i. 208; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 236; Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 278. T. flaccidum, ''A. Cunn. Precur. n. 321; Raoul, Choix,'' 41. T. filifolium, ''Sieb. ex Sprang. Syst.'' iv. 142; ''Hook. Ic. Plant.'' 579.

2. T. palustre, ''Linn. Sp. Plant.'' 338.—Rhizome short, stoloniferous. Leaves all radical, much shorter than the scape, narrow-linear or filiform, semiterete, upper surface faintly grooved. Scape slender, 6–24 in. high; raceme elongating after flowering. Flowers numerous, shortly pedicelled, minute, green or greenish-purple. Perianth-segments ovate, all equal. Stamens 6, all fertile; anthers purple. Fruit appressed to the rhachis, linear-clavate, ¼ in. long; carpels 3, very slender, almost awned at the base, attached to the axis by the tip.—''Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xiv. (1882) 300.