106 MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA. Carex. 



yellowish green j pendulous when ripe, from half an inch to an 

 inch long j scales ovate^ pointed, keeled. Barren catkin lanceo- 

 late, erect, with lanceolate tawny scales. Stam. 3. Stigynas 3. 

 Fruit about the length of the scales, rather obovate, slightly 

 ribbed, smooth, obtuse, equally triangular in the upper part, 

 tipped with a very small, abrupt beak, scarcely visibly notched. 

 Seed obovate, triangular. 

 Morison's sect. 8, ^ 12 /. 16 is erroneously quoted for this species 

 by Ray, and others who perhaps copied him. The figure repre. 

 sents C. pihdifera. 



38. Cjiava, Yellow Carex. 



Sheaths short, nearly equal to the flower-stalks. Fertile 

 catkins roundish-ovate. Fruit triangular, smooth, with a 

 cloven beak curved downward. Stem nearly smooth. 



C. flava. Linn. Sp.Pl. 1384, Willd. v. 4. 268. Fl. Br. 990. Engl. 

 Bot.v. 18. 1. 1294. Hook. Scot. 266; omitting the variety. Dicks. 

 H. Sice. fasc. 3. 14. Fl.Dan. t. 1047. Leers 198. t. 15./. 6. 

 Schk. Car. 72. t. H./. 36. 



C. n. 1380. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 192. 



Gramen palustre echinatum. Raii Syn. 421. Ger. Enu\7.f. Lob. 

 IcAb.f. Bauh.Hist.v. 2.497 .fA98. 



G. palustre aculeatum germanicum. Bauh. Pin. 7. Theatr. 109./. 



G. cyperoides palustre, aculeatum. Moris, v. 3. 243. sect. 8.t.]2. 

 f.V9. 



In boggy meadows, frequent. 



Perennial. May, June. 



Root fibrous, tufted, scarcely creeping. Stem erect, from 9 to 12 

 inches high, triangular, smooth, except occasionally near the 

 summit j leafy at the base. Leaves bright grass green, erect, 

 various in height, broadish, flat, ribbed, rough at the edges and 

 keel, and marked with 2 prominent rough lines, on the upper 

 side, near the point, as observed by Mr. J. D. Sowerby. Bracteas 

 leafy ; the upper ones widely spreading, with extremely short 

 sheaths ; lowermost larger, less spreading, with a longer sheath, 

 almost equal to the stalk of the lowest catkin. Catkins all nearly 

 upright } the barren one lanceolate, not always single, its scales 

 light brown, keeled, obtuse, with membranous edges 3 fertile 2 

 or 3, ovate or nearly globose, tawny-yellow ; the lower one 

 generally stalked 3 some of them occasionally tipped with a few 

 h^TTtn florets. Scales ovate, acute, tawny, with a broad greenish 

 rib. Stam. 3. Siigm. 3. Fruit green, at length yellow, ovate, or 

 obovate, triangular, turgid, smooth, ribbed, with a smooth cloven 

 beak, more or less remarkably bent downward, and considerably 

 longer than the scales. Seed small, triangular, black. 



