MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA. Carex. 79 



Dan.tAGG. Leersl94.t.\4.fA. Schk. Car. 9.t. A.f.3. Ehrh. 



Phjtoph.7. 

 C. Psyllophora. Ehrh, in Linn. Suppl. 413. 

 C. minima, caulibus et foliis capillaceis, capitulo singulari tenui- 



ori, capsulis oblongis, utrinque acuminatis et deorsiim reflexis. 



Mich. Gen. GG. t.'SA.f. 1. 

 Gramen cypeioides minimum, seminibiis cleorsum reflexis pulici- 



formibus. Raii Sijn. ed.2.2G9.ed. 3.424. Pluk. Phijt.t.3\. 



f. 10. Moris. V, 3. 244. sect. S.i. 12./. 21. 



In spongy or muddy bogs, frequent. 

 Perennial. June. 



Root tufted, of many slender, smooth, branched fibres. Stems 

 from 6 to 12 inches high, slender, quadrangular, smooth, leafy 

 at the base only. Leaves equally slender and smooth, trian- 

 gular, not quite so tall ; sheathing and ribbed at the base, with 

 hardly any stipula. Catkin slender when in flower ; subsequently 

 its lower half becomes tumid, consisting of fertile. /Zore^s, the 

 upper of barren ones. Scales lanceolate, the lower ones forced 

 oft' by the reflexed, triangular, brown, smooth and nhrn'mg fruit ; 

 so that W'llldenow, as often happens, has altered the specific 

 character for the worse, few Carices having scales so deciduous. 

 The stamens with us are certainly 3. Stigmas 2. 

 The original Linnsean name being latin, like the classical generic 

 one, was most unadvisedly translated into Greek by Ehrhart ; 

 who being entrusted with the printing of the Suppl. Plant. 

 abused that trust, by corrupting the text in this and many other 

 instances, to the great displeasure of the younger Linnseus. 

 He therefore ought not to be followed in any such alterations. 

 Dr. Wahlenberg informs us, in his Ft. Lapp. 224, that C.puUcaris 

 is not found in Lapland, so that n.'339 of the Linnoean Fl. Lapp. 

 must be eitlier the following species, or C.dioica. I should, 

 by the description, take it rather for the following, which Lin- 

 naeus in his herbarium mistook for puiicaris. 



4. Qj. pancijlora. Few -flowered Carex. 



Catkin sim))ie, lax, of few flowers; the uppermost barren. 



Friiit sprea(lin<^-, dcflexed, awl-shajied, smootli. Stigmas 



three. 

 C. pauciflora. Li^htf.:y\3.t.G.f.2. Ililld. Sp. Pl.v.4.2\\. El.Ih: 



IHiG. Eui^'l. Hot! V. '29. t.2()\\. Ji'mrh Guide v. \ .S3. lUndc. 



Scot. 2G I. Dicks. IL Sice. fuse. 1 . 1 G. Don //. Dr. G8. Schk. Car. 



10. t. A./. 1. *' Host Grani. v. 1 . 33. t. 42." 

 C. patula. Uuds. 402. and G't? . 

 C. Lcucoglochin. Ehrh. in Linn. Suppl. 4\3. Phjtoph.S. ll'ahlcnb. 



Lapp. 22 L FL. Dan. t. 1279, not 1379. 



In al|)ine bogs, but rare. 



About lialf way up the mountain of Goat-fell, isle of .\rran, in a 



