338 Class XXI. Order III. 



ovate, reflexed, with a curved two-toothed beak, lon- 

 ger than the ovate-lanceolate scale. 



A slender carex of the middle size, with short, oval, yellow- 

 ish fruit-spikes. Moist ground. June. Perennial. 



CAREX PLANTAGINEA. Broad leaved Sedge, 



Barren spike one ; fertile spikes four, distant ; fruit 

 elliptical, three cornered, pedicelled, smooth, shorter 

 than the ovate, pointed scale; root -leaves lanceolate, 

 nerved. 



A low species with very broad, lanceolate, spreading leaves, 

 Woods, May. Perennial. 



CAREX ANCEPS. Sharp edged Sedge. 



Barren spike one ; fertile spikes three, remote, the 

 lower ones pedunculated ; fruit ovate, nerved, mem- 

 branous at the mouth, longer than the oblong, mucro- 

 nate scale. 



Below the middle size. Angles of the cu*m extended and 

 almost winged. Leaves linear-lanceolate. Low grounds. May, 

 June. Perennial. 



CAREX FLEXUOSA. Slender Sedge. 



Barren spike one ; fertile spikes about four, remote, 

 filiform on drooping stalks ; fruit distant, alternate, ob- 

 long, beaked, bifid, twice as long as the ovate, mucro- 

 nate scale. 



Syn. CAREX DEBILIS. MX. 

 CAREX TEXUIS. Rudge. 



A very slender carex with flaccid spikes. Found in wet mea- 

 dows &c. June. Perennial. 



CAREX PSEUDO-CYPERUS. Large spiked Sedge. 



Barren spike one ; fertile spikes four, geminate, pe- 

 dunculated, pendulous, cylindrical ; fruit ovate-lanceo- 

 late, two pointed, reflexed, equal to the setaceous scale. 



Very large with long, stout, cylindrical, pendulous spikes, ex- 



