MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA. Carex. Ill 



My copy of Schkuhr's Carices goes no further than t. D, d, d, so 

 that I cannot verify Willdenovv's reference to that admirable 

 and most correct work. Wahlenberg's C. binervis, Stockh. 

 Trans, for 1 803. 157, is our speirostachya, n. 28, he having been 

 misled by a specimen of the latter, which was not then known 

 in England. 



44. C prcBCOx, Vernal Carex. 



Sheaths about equal to the very short flower-stalks. Cat- 

 kins all elliptical, rather crowded. Scales of the fertile 

 ones pointed. Fruit pear-shaped, downy, with an abrupt 

 entire point. 



C. praecox. Jacq. Austr. L 446. Willd, Sp. PL v.U 262. Gooden. 

 Tr.ofL.Soc.v.2A70. FL Br. 994. Engl. Bot.v. 16. M099. 

 Hook. Scot. 267. Lond. t. 22. Relh. ed. 2. 367. Schk. Car. 68. 

 t. F.f. 27. 



C. saxatilis. Huds. 408. 



C. montana. Light f. 55 1 j not of Hudson. 



C. fiUformis. Lm/200. t.\G.f 5. 



C. stolonifera. Ehrh. Calani. 99. 



C. n. 1381. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 192 j without any doubt. 



Gramen cyperoides vernum minimum. Raii Syn. 42\. 



G. cyperoides spicatum. Ger. Em. 22. f 



G. cyperoides spicatum, foliis caryophylleis. Moris, v. 3. 243. 

 sec^8. t.\2.f. 11. 



G. spicatum, foliis Veronicae caryophyllatse. Lob. Ic. 10./. 



Cyperoides vernum, caule rotundo-triquetro, spicis seminalibus 

 densioribus, binis, vel tcrnis, squamis ferrugineis, obtuse mii- 

 cronatis, ct tamquam in aristulam prolongatis, capsulis turbi- 

 natis subhirsutis trilateris. Mich. Gen. 64. n. 70. Segu. Veron. 

 V. 1. 122. t. I./.3. 



On dry heaths and hillocks, and in open barren pastures, very 

 abundant. 



Perennial. April. 



Root branched, creeping, with several procumbent leafy shoots. 

 Stem ascending obliquely, from 3 to 6 or 8 inches high, firm, 

 triangular, smooth ; leafy at the base only. Leaves several, 

 forming close tufts, short, harsh, spreading, or recurved, pointed, 

 keeled, flattish, ribbed ; rough at the edges, points and ribs ; 

 their colour rather glaucous, and pink-like. Jiractcas short, 

 very narrow, erect, often wanting ; their sheaths tubular, tliough 

 short and abrupt, dilated upwards. Flower-stalks hardly reach- 

 ing beyond the sheaths. Fertile catkins generally 2, near to- 

 gether', erect, elliptic-oblong, dense, but not many-tlowered ; 

 their 5ra/cA- ovate, brown, witli a green ril), and small point. 

 Barren catkin solitary, longest, elliptic-oblong, rather obtuse 

 and club-shaped, witli blunt, rusty, pale- ribbed scales. Stam.3. 



