MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA. Carex. Ill 



My copy of Schkuhr's Cariccs goes no further than t. D, d, d, so 

 that I cannot verify VVilldenow's reference to that achnirable 

 and most correct work. Wahlenberg's C. Inncrvis, Slockh. 

 Trans, for 1803. 157, is our spciroslachya, 7i. 28, he having been 

 misled by a specimen of the latter^ whicli was not then known 

 in England. 



44. C. precox. Vernal Carex. 



Sheaths about equal to the very short flower-stalks. Cat- 

 kins all elliptical, rather crowded. Scales of the fertile 

 ones pointed. Fruit pear-shaped, downy, with an abrupt 

 entire point. 



C. praecox. Jacq. Amir. t. 446. Wilkl. Sp. PL v. 4. 2G2. Gooden. 

 Tr. o/L. Soc.v. 2. 1/0. Fl. Br. 994. Engl Bot.v. 16. t. 1099. 

 Hook. Scot. 267. Lond. t. 22. Relli. ed. 2. 367. Sch/c. Car. 68. 

 t. V.f. 27. 



C. saxatilis. Huds. 408. 



C. montana. Light/. 551 ; not of Hudson. 



C. filiformis. Leers 200. t. 1 6./. 5. 



C. stolonifera. Ehrh. Calam. 99. 



C. n. 1381. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 192 ; without any doubt. 



Gramen cyperoides vernum minimum. Raii Si/n. 421. 



G. cyperoides spicatum. Ger. Em. 22. f. 



G. cyperoides spicatum, foliis caryophylleis. Moris, v. 3. 243. 

 sect.S. t.\2.f.]\. 



G. spicatum, foliis Veronicfe caryophyllatse. Lob. Ic. 10./. 



Cyperoides vernum, caule rotundo-triquetro, spicis seminalibus 

 densioribus, binis, vel ternis, squamis ferrugineis, obtuse mu- 

 cronatis, et tamquam in aristulam prolongatis, capsulis turbi- 

 natis subhirsutis trilateris. Mich. Gen. 64. n. 70. Segu. Veron. 

 V. 1. 122. ^ 1./. 3. 



On dry heaths and hillocks, and in open barren pastures, very 

 abundant. 



Perennial. April. 



Root branched, creeping, with several procumbent leafy shoots. 

 Stem ascending obliquely, from 3 to (] or 8 inches high, firm, 

 triangular, smooth ; leafy at the base only. Leaves several, 

 forming close tufts, short, harsh, spreading, or recurved, pointed, 

 keeled, flattish, ribbed j rough at the edges, points and ribs j 

 their colour rather glaucous, and pink-like, Bracteas short, 

 very narrow, erect, often wanting} their s/feai/is tubular, though 

 short and abriq)t, dilated upwards. Flower-stalks hardly reach- 

 ing beyond the sheaths. Fertile catkins generally 2, near to- 

 getheri erect, elliptic-oblong, dense, but not many-flowered ; 

 their scales ovate, brown, with a green rib, and small point. 

 Barren catkin solitary, longest, elliptic-oblong, rather obtuse 



- and club-shaped, with blunt, rusty, pale-ribbed scales. Stam.3. 



