MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA. Caiex. 1 13 



cimens, in p. 267 of the same work j so Dillenius has it twice 

 over in the 3d edition. — Linnaeus, in like manner, adopted it 

 from Plukenet's figure alone, while he described at the same 

 time a specimen of the same, by the name of montuna. That 

 of pilulifera has been generally retained. It alludes to the glo- 

 bular shape of the catkins, globulorum cemulis, and not to the 

 fruit. 



46. C. tomentcsa. Larger Downy- fruited Carex. 



Sheaths extremely short. Fertile catkins one or two, 

 nearly sessile, cylindrical, obtuse, with acute scales. 

 Fruit globose, slightly triangular, densely downy, with 

 a short, cloven beak. 



C. tomentosa. Linn. Mant. 123. Willd. Sp. PL v 4. 2G3. Sm. Tr. 



of L. Soc. V. 5. 269. Fl. Br. 996. Engl. Bot. v. 29. t. 2046. 



Dicks. Dr. PL 43. FL Dan. t. 1404. Leers 200. t. 15. / 7. 



Schk. Car. 69. t.F.f 28. 

 C. sphserocarpa. Ehrh. Calam. 89. 

 C. n. 1373. HaU. Hist. v. 2. 190. 

 Cyperoides angustifolium montanum, folliculis seminum villosis. 



Scheuchz. Jgr. 423. 



In meadows in the south of England, very rare. 



Near Merston Measey, Wiltshire. Mr. E. Teesdale. 



Perennial. June. 



Root creeping, with scaly shoots, and long shaggy fibres ; the 

 scales, as well as those that envelop the leaves and stems at the 

 base, of a deep blood-red brown. Stems erect, a foot or more 

 in height, with 3 sharp angles rough upwards ; leafy fit the bot- 

 tom only. Leaves of the present year not one third the height 

 of the stem, erect, acute, flat, grass-green, somewhat hairy, 

 rough-edged, ribbed. Bracteas leafy, scarcely rising above the 

 stem J the sheath of the lowermost extremely short ; of the rest 

 hardly any. Fertile catkins commonly 2, often one only, 

 nearly or quite sessile, dense, erect, oblong, obtuse ; the lower- 

 most cylindrical, seldom an inch long ; the rest shorter, ellij)- 

 tical, but never so crowded, rounded, or spreading as in C. j)i- 

 luUfera; their .scr//^5 ovate, broad, acute, brown, with a dilated, 

 pale midrib. Jiarren catkin longest, lanceolate, tumid, erect, 

 with pale, rusty, obtuse scales ; its upper half very rarely com- 

 posed of fertile florets ; but it is usually quite solitary and dis- 

 tinct. Statu. 3. Stigm. 3, sessile. 'Fruit globular, with 3 

 very slight, brown angles, a little flattened, green, clothed with 

 copious whitish down, longer and more abundant than in the 

 foregoing, turning tawny by keeping ; l>r(ik very short and thick, 

 erect, deeply cloven. Seed pale, obscunly triangular. 



