A general name for the plants of the genus Scirpus (N. O. Cyperaceæ). b. Sometimes applied to the Reed-mace Typha.

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1677.  Plot, Oxfordsh., 145. Bearing at the top a little club, as in the other club-rushes.

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1776.  Withering, Brit. Plants (1796), II. 77. Pointed or 3-square Club-rush.

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1794.  Martyn, Rousseau’s Bot., xiii. 153. Club-rush or Bulrush.

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1861.  S. Thomson, Wild Fl., 218. There are the club or bullrushes.

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