MONOECIA— TIIIANDRIA. Carex. 101 



C. limosa y, rariflora. Wahlenb. in Stockh. Trans, for 1803.162. 



Willd. Sp. PL V, 4. 294. 

 C. limosa (d, rariflora. Wahlenb. Lapp. 242. 



In the alpine Highlands of Scotland. 



At the head of a glen, called the Dell, among the mountains of 

 Clova, Angusshire, near the limits of perpetual snow, Mr. G. 

 Don. 



Perennial. July. 



Riither larger than the last, from which it differs in its widely 

 creeping root, and less pointed or beaked fruit, but to which it 

 is much more related than to C. limosa, especially in its/rwi^ 

 which has 3 equal bluntish angles, with rather concave, smooth 

 interstices, not striated or ribbed. C. limosa belongs to a tribe 

 with compressed fruit. The leaves are roughish at the edges, 

 towards the point. Bractea strongly keeled, with a very short, 

 ribbed sheath. Scales of all the catkins very dark, ovate, pointed. 

 Fertile catkins rather ovate-oblong than linear. Stigmas 3, 

 long, often cohering lengthwise. 



32. C. Pseudo'Cyperus . Bastard-cyperus Carex. 



Sheaths scarcely any. Fertile catkins dense, cylindrical, 

 drooping, many-flowered. Scales awl-shaped. Fruit 

 spreading, lanceolate, furrowed, rough-edged, with a 

 deeply cloven beak. 



C. Pseudo-cyperus. Linn.Sp.Tl. XZ^l . mild. v. 4.295. H. Br. 



986. Engl. Bot. v. 4. t. 242. Hook. Scot. 265. Dicks. H. Sice. 



/asc.7.14. Schk.Car.\\^.t.U,m.f.\02. '' Fl. Dan. t. \\\7." 



'* Host Gram. v. 1. 63. t. 8j." Ehrh. Calam. 90. 

 C.n. 1397. Hall. Hist. v. 2.196. 

 Gramen cyperoides, spica pendula breviore. Raii Sijn. 419. 



Moris. V. 3. 242. sect.S. t. 12./. f). Bauh. Pin. 6. Theatr. 8.>./. 

 Graminis cypcroidis genus, Pscudo-cyj)erus Lobelio, spicis vel 



panniculi's pendentibus ex longis pediculis. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 



496./. 

 Pseudo-cyperus. Lob. Ic. 76.f Ger. Em. 29./. 

 In wet shady places, and about tiie margins of rivers and ponds, 



not very uncommon. 

 On Ilounslow heath. Bishop of Carlisle. On St. Faitlrbbogs near 



Norwich. 

 Perennial. Junt;. 

 Nothwithstanding its great size, and bright green colour, this 



species is more allied to 2 or 3 of the foregoing than to any of 



the following. The root is fibrous. Stem a foot or more in 



heiglit, with 3 sharp rougli angles, and crowned with several 



long, recurved, leafy, taj)er-pointed huicicas, slightly sheathing 



at the base, with manv rou^h ribs, and rougli edge.n. Fertile 



