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This is articulatus, Fl. Brit., Fl. Herborn.; and compressus of Sibthorp and Relhan. Moris. s. 8 t. 9 f. 2. Scheuchz. 331. 1. R. Syn. 433. 8. but I cannot refer to the ''Sp. Pl., where the definition is petalis obtusis''.

In the the panicle is more branched, the branches more slender, and spreading, the divisions of the calyx narrower and longer, the capsule smaller, much more taper-pointed, and lighter-coloured; culm of fewer joints, that, and the leaves, less compressed. It is a taller plant, sometimes above three feet high, and it ripens later.

This I take to be ''Moris. s.'' 8. t. 9. f. 1. certainly Scheuchzer, p. 334. 4. who says: "Calami tribus quatuorve communiter genuculis distincti,—Flosculi nunc dilutiùs nunc obscuriùs fusci aut spadicei,—Vasculum seminale triquetrum, in acutum mucronem terminatum." It is likewise J. articulatus of Relhan; and nemorosus of Sibthorp.

My differs from both the former in several particulars:—The panicle is much lighter-coloured; the peduncles, which are divaricated, and even bent back, are evidently thicker than those of the, the panicle of which resembles this more than that of the. Then the smallest capsule of this;—the pale-coloured bunches of florets,—and particularly the elliptic obtuse segments of the calyx, with a broad scariose margin, fully distinguish it from the other two. It is, besides, a firmer plant, the nodes in the leaves being scarcely perceptible without a considerable degree of pressure;—the culm and leaf are quite round, and it never have more than two joints in the stalk!

I find no description of this species besides the short one in ''Fl. Brit. articulati var. β'', "culmo erectiore, panicula ramosiori,