MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA. Carex. 115 



C. glauca. Scop. Cam. V. 2. 22S. Pollich v. 2. 594. 



C. flacca. Schreb. Lips. append. 71. 669. Schk. Car.\ 17. <.0, P./. 57. 

 Wuhlenh. Stockh. Trans, for 1803. IGO. Elirh. Phytoph. 1)8. 



C. pendula. Schreb. Lips. 62. 



C. limosa|3. Leers20\. t. ]D.f.3 I 



C. n. 1408. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 200 ; with confused references. N. 

 1407 of this author is presumed to be the same. 



Cyperoides palustve, spiels purpureo-spadiceis, tenuibus pediculis 

 insidentibus. Scheucliz. Agr.467. 



Gramen cyperoides, foliis caryophylleis, spicis oblongis, e pedi- 

 culis longioribus pendulis. Raii S//n. 4\8. 



G. cyperoides nemorosum, spica subnigrfi recurva. Moris, sect. 8. 

 t. 1 2.f. 14. But not of Bauh. Theatr. 98 j nor is Morison's own 

 definition, v. 3. 243. n. 14, correct. 



/3. Carex Micheliana. Sm. Tr. of L. Soc. v. 5. 270. Fl. Br. 1 004. 

 Engl. Bot.v.32. t.22'36. 



C. ambleocarpa. fnild. Sp. PL v. 4. 307. 



Cyperoides foliis caryophylleis, caule exquisite triangulari, spicis 

 habitioribus, squamis curtis, obtuse mucronatis, capsulis turbi- 

 natis brevibus confertis. Mich. Gen. G2. t. 32. f 12. 



In moist meadows, pastures, groves, and wet barren heathy 

 ground, common. 



Perennial. May, June. 



Root creeping, sheathed with purplish-brown scales. Herbage 

 glaucous, very conspicuous in moist as well as dry weather. 

 Stem erect, from 8 to 18 inches high, roundish with 3 angles, 

 scarcely rough in any part. Leaves mostly radical, upright, or 

 partly recurved, broad, acute, rough-edged, not half so tall as 

 the stem, much resembling the foliage of pinks or carnations. 

 Bracteas leafy, the lowermost several inches long; their slicaths 

 short, crowned with rounded brown auricles. Fertile catkins 2, 

 often 3, cylindrical, obtuse, many-flowered, very dense, droop- 

 ing as they ripen, and at length pendulous, each on a slender 

 smooth stalk, many times longer than its sheath. Scales ovate, 

 more or less acute ; bluntish and entirelypointless, in thevaricty 

 /2 ; their colour like chocolate, with a greenish rib. Barren catkin 

 generally solitary, but very often accompanied by a smaller 

 one, and the upper portion of several of the fertile catkins fre- 

 quently consists of barren Jiorcts ; (5 is remarkable for having 4 

 completely barren catkins, with half another ; though only one, 

 compound ac the base, consisting entirely of fertile Jlorets. 

 Scales of the barren catkins usually obovate and obtuse, (hirk 

 brown with a yellow rib ; sometimes they arc partly acute, and 

 even pointed. .Stani.3. Stigm. 3, on ii shorl style. Fruit v\- 

 liptical, or somewhat obovate, ol)tuse, bluntly triangular, tumid, 

 more or less downy or rough, of a rusty green, soon becoming 

 black, destitute of a beak, though obscurely cloven. Seal 

 »hort, triangular, dark brown with pile angle.s. 



