92 MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA. Carex. 



the stem shows it to be almost cylindrical. The edges are 

 roughish. Leaves sheathing the lower part of each stem, erect, 

 about as tall as the stem, deep green, rough at the edges and 

 keel, very narrow, acute. Spike erect, ovate, or oblong, rather 

 acute, ] 4- inch long, twice or thrice compound, densely panicled, 

 scarcely lobed, and not at all open or spreading. Spikelets ovate. 

 Scales acute, membranous, very smooth. Barren Jlorets superior, 

 most numerous. Fertile ones about 6. Bracieas membranous, 

 ovate, acute ; the lowermost often ending in a rough, leafy point, 

 of no great length. Fruit brown, ribbed, smooth, tumid at one 

 side ; its beak gradually tapering from a broad base into a lan- 

 ceolate form, strongly serrated at the edges, notched at the tip. 

 Stam. 3. Stigm. 2. Seed semiorbicular. 

 Ray evidently indicates this species in his Synopsis, ed. 2. 268, 

 after his account of our following one, observing that it grows 

 in a scattered manner, not in dense tufts. This important cha- 

 racter, added to the remarks of the learned Bishop of Carlisle 

 and of Mr. Crowe, preclude all doubt of these two species being 

 certainly distinct, nor can any one who compares them with due 

 attention judge otherwise. 



20. C. paniculata. Great Panicled Carex. 



Spike thrice compound, loosely panicled, interrupted, 

 acute. Fruit spreading, with an abrupt serrated beak. 

 Stem sharply triangular, with flat interstices. 



C. paniculata. Linn. Sp. PI. 1383. mild, v. 4. 244. Fl. Br. 978. 



Engl. Bot. V, 15. t. 1064. Hook. Scot. 262. Leers 198. t. 14./. 4. 



Schk. Car. 33. t. D./. 20. Ehrh. Calam. 69. 

 C. n. 1368. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 188 ; syn. incorrect. 

 C. radice repente, caule exquisite triangulari, spica multiplici fer- 



ruginea j et spica multiplici fusca. Mich. Gen. Q^, t. 33./. 7. 

 Gramen cyperoides palustre elatius, spica longiore laxa. Raii Syn. 



422. Moris, v. 3. 244. sect. 8. t. 1 2./. 23. 

 Cyperus alpinus longus inodorus, panicula ferruginea minus sparsd. 



Scheuchz. Prodr. 27. t.S.f. 2. 



In wet pastures and spongy bogs. 



Perennial. June. 



Root of many long stout fibres, by no means creeping, but tufted. 

 Plant twice the size of the foregoing, with much broader leaves. 

 Stem much stouter, 2 or 3 feet high, and essentially distinguished 

 by having 3 acute rough angles, whose intermediate spaces are 

 flat, striated, without any central rib. Spike panicled in the 

 first instance, the branches spreading, spiked, twice compound, 

 with numerous ovate, crowded, sessile, brown or rusty spikelets. 

 Scales membranous, ovate, acute, smooth. Barren^ore^* supe- 

 rior, numerous J fertile few. Fruit rounded below, convex. 



