MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA. Carex. 125 



58. C. hirta. Hairy Carex. 



Herbage hairy. Fertile catkins ovate-cylindrical, remote. 

 Scales avvned. Sheaths nearly as long as the flower- 

 stalks. Fruit hairy, tumid, with a deeply-cloven beak. 

 Stem rough-edged. 

 C. hirta. Linr2..S/3.P/. 1389. WdU.vA.ZW. FLBr,]007. Engl. 

 Bot. V. 10. t. 68.5. Hook. Scot. 270. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 11.16. 

 Leers 206. t. 16./. 3. Schk. Car. 127. t. U, u./. 108. Ehrli. 

 Calctm. 100. 

 C. anonvma. Fl. Don. t. 425. 

 C. n. 1403. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 198. 



Cyperoides polystachyon lanuginosum. Scheuc/iz. Jgr. 4/8. 

 Gramen cyperoides polystachyon lanuginosum. Raii Sun. 418. 

 Moris. V. 3. 243. sect. 8. t. 12./. 10. Fluk. Almag. 178. Phyt. 

 t. 34. f.6. 

 /3. Fertile catkins compound. Schk. t. V, u.f. B. 

 In wet meadows, woods, and watery places, frequent. 

 (3. At Copgrove, Yorkshire. Mr. D. Turner. 

 Perennial. May, June. 



Boot creeping extensively, with long, stout, scaly runners, and 

 denselv shaggy radicles. Whole herb clothed, more or less co- 

 piously, with fine, soft, shaggy hairs, which the Bishop of Car- 

 lisle has observed occasionally to disai)pear almost entirely, in 

 wet situations, except at the 'top of the sheaths of the leaves, 

 never quite smooth, and usually thickly bearded. Stem erect, 

 2 feet high, leafy, with 3 sharj) rough angles. Leaves scarcely 

 so tall, u))right,'flat, rough-edged, i)ointed, most hairy beneath. 

 Bracteas like the leaves,'" their sheaths, which are often smooth, 

 embracing nearly the whole of each Jlower-stalk. Barren cat- 

 kins 2 or 3, lanceolate, erect, light brown, their filmy-edged 

 scales pointed ; lower ones awned 3 fertile 2 or 3, distant, stalk- 

 ed, erect, cylindrical, or somewhat ovate, about an inch long ; 

 their scales ovate, smooth, membranous, keeled, with long, slen- 

 der, rough awns. Stam. 3. Stigm. 3. Fruit ovate, tawny, 

 ribi)ed, always, I believe, hairy, tumid all round, though scarcely 

 inflated j the heak broad, rough, deeply cloven, acute. Seed 

 roundish, with 3 angles, tii)ped with i)art of the style. 

 The separate catkin in FL Dan. t.37[), which luis been tliouglit to 

 belong to this species, may perhajjs be C. Jiliformis, like the 

 j)rinripal figure. Schkuhr having rightly determined the ano- 

 nymous i)late t. \i:> of that work to be (\ hirta, renders the 

 other less important. Plukenet's /. 31./. 6, must be intended 

 for this, though tlie leaves answer better to C.JihJornns. 

 A specimen of Sehkuhr's variety, our p, gathered m ^()rkshlrcby 

 Mr. Turner, has not only the lower i)art of eacli Jtrtde catkin 



