Reed Mace

Reed Mace (Typha) - Graceful water-plants, hardy, easily grown, and very ornamental whether at the waterside or cut for decoration. T. latifolia is a native plant, growing in tufts of two-rowed flat leaves, 18 to 24 inches long and 1 or 1 1/2 inches wide. From the centre of each tuft springs a stem 6 or 7 feet high, terminated in the flowering season by a close cylindrical spike 9 inches long, which is of dark olive, but changes to brownish-black as it ripens. T. angustifolia is like it except in the size of the narrower leaves and spike, and of the two is perhaps the more graceful. T. minor is a smaller form of it. T. minima is the smallest of the hardy kinds, 12 inches to 18 inches in height, with slender rush-like leaves and dense or globose heads, those of the other kinds being much longer than they are broad. Other kinds found in water gardens are T. stenophylla, with narrow leaves turned in a spiral and short thick spikes; and T. Shuttleworthii, like latifolia as to general appearance, but with leaves of a showy golden-green.

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