122 MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA. Carex. 



rides, not always present. Barren catkins from 3 to 5, crowded, 

 triangular, sharp-pointed ; their scales lanceolate, taper-pointed, 

 more or less awned, strongly keeled^ of a uniform dark brown, 

 rather downy. Fertile catkins 3 or 4, erect, stalked, thick, cy- 

 lindrical, pointed, especially when tipped with a few barren j^o- 

 rets ; their scales ovate, smooth, tapering into a long, sharp, 

 rough, awn. Stam. 3. Stigm. 3. Iruit ovate, triangular, pale 

 brown, smooth, finely ribbed, tumid, inflated, not compressed 

 like the last, terminating in a broad, shortish, deeply cloven 

 beakf with 2 sharp distant points. Seed small, whitish, trian- 

 gular. 

 Haller's n. 1404 is commonly taken for this plant, and it is possi- 

 ble he might have bad it in view, along with some of our last- 

 described, under that number, as well as under his 1398 and 

 1399. Neither this eminent wM-iter, nor Linnaeus, was well ac- 

 quainted with these common Carices, Mr. Curtis being the first 

 who well explained them. The late Mr. Davall, from whom I 

 have Swiss specimens of the riparia, thought Haller had it not, 

 though he has referred to its synonyms, intermingled with those 

 of other species. If X\\g: fruity and the awns of the scales, be at- 

 tended to, no mistake can be made. 



bb, C. IcBvigata. Smooth -stalked Beaked Carex 



Catkins cylindrical ; fertile ones stalked. Scales all pointed. 

 Sheaths very long. Fruit triangular, with a cloven beak. 



C. l^vigata. Sm. Tr. of L. Soc. v. 5. 272. Fl. Br. 1005. Engl. 



Bot. V. 20. t. 1387. Hook. Scot. 2G9. Willd. Sp. PL v. 4. 295. 



'' Schk. Car. t. S, s, s./. 1 62." Willd. 

 C. patula. Schk. Car. \\5.t. B, b, b./. 116. 

 C. sethiopica, Schk. Car. 107. t. Z.f. 83. 



In marshes, and boggy thickets. 



In a marsh near Glasgow. Mr, J. Mackay. Near Aberdeen. Prof. 

 J. Beattie, jun. On Warley Common, Essex ; also in Cornwall 

 and Sussex. Mr. E. Forster. 



Perennial. June. 



Root tufted, with long stout fibres. Herbage of a bright light 

 green, quite smooth in every part, except the upper bracteas 

 being rough at the edges, the lower one at the tip only. Stems 

 from 2 to 4 feet high, triangular j leafy in the lower part. Leaves 

 erect, about one third of an inch broad, pointed, striated, the 

 uppermost only rough-edged towards the extremity ; all with 

 long, close, striated, smooth sheaths. Bracteas leafy, long and 

 narrow , w^ith very long sheaths. Catkins cylindrical, erect ; 

 barren ones usually 2, an inch long, or more, rather lanceolate, 

 acute ; their scales light brown, lanceolate, acute, for the most 

 part tipped with a small point, or awn. Fertile catkins 2 or 3, 

 on very long, capillary, smooth stalks, much exceeding the 



