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  1. Two plants: the great reed-mace or cat's tail
  2. Typha latifolia with chocolate-brown
  3. tight-packed flower spikes reaching up to 15
  4. cm/6 in long, and a type of sedge Scirpus
  5. lacustris with tufts of reddish-brown flowers
  6. at the top of a rounded, rush-like stem. T.
  7. latifolia grows in large patches in reed
  8. swamps, while S. lacustris is found beside
  9. water. Both are widely distributed and used
  10. for basket-weaving and thatching.
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