106 MONOEGIA— TRIANDRIA. Carex. 



yellowish green 5 pendulous when ripe, from half an inch to an 

 inch long) scales ovate, pointed, keeled. Barren catk'm lanceo- 

 late, erect, with lanceolate tawny scales. Stam. 3. Stigvias 3. 

 Fruit about the length of the scales, rather obovate, slightly 

 ribbed, smooth, obtuse, equally triangular in the upper part, 

 tipped with a very small, abrupt beak, scarcely visibly notched. 

 Seed obovate, triangular. 

 Morison's sect. 8, t. 12./. IG is erroneously quoted for this species 

 by Ray, and others who perhaps copied him. The figure repre- 

 sents C. pibdifera. 



38. Qj.flava. Yellow Carex. 



Sheaths short, nearly equal to the flower-stalks. Fertile 



catkins roundish-ovate. Fruit triangular, smooth, with a 



cloven beak curved downward. Stem nearly smooth. 

 C.flava. Linn. Sp.P/. 1384. ?Fi«d.u. 4. 268. H. fir. 990. Engl. 



Bot. V. 18. M294. Hook. Scot. 266; omitting the variety. Dicks. 



H. Sicc.fasc. 3. 14. FL Dan. t. 1047. Leers 198. t. 15./. 6. 



Schk.Car.72. t.U.f.36. 

 C. n. 1380. Hall.Hist.v.2.\92. 

 Gramen palustreechinatum. Raii Syn. 42\. Ger.Em.l?./. Lob. 



Ic. 15./. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 497./. 498. 

 G. palustre aculeatum germanicum. Bauh. Pin. 7. Theatr.lOO.f. 

 G. cyperoides palustre^ aculeatum, Moris, v. 3. 243, sect. 8. 1. 12. 



/. 19. 



In boggy meadows, frequent. 



Perennial. May, June. 



Root fibrous, tufted, scarcely creeping. Stem erect, from 9 to 1 2 

 inches high, triangular, smooth, except occasionally near the 

 summit J leafy at the base. Leares bright grass green, erect, 

 various in height, broadish, fiat, ribbed, rough at the edges and 

 keel, and marked with 2 prominent rough lines, on the upper 

 side, near the point, as observed by Mr. J. D. Sowerby. Bracteas 

 leafy; the upper ones widely spreading, with extremely short 

 sheaths; lowermost larger, less spreading, with a longer sheath, 

 almost equal to the stalk of the lowest catkin. Catkins all nearly 

 upright ; the barren one lanceolate, not always single, its scales 

 light brown, keeled, obtuse, with membranous edges ; fertile 2 

 or 3, ovate or nearly globose, tawny-yellow; the lower one 

 generally stalked ; some of them occasionally tii)ped with a few 

 barren //ore^s. ScaZes ovate, acute, tawny, with abroad greenish 

 rib. Stam. 3. Stigm. 3. Fruit green, at length yellow, ovate, or 

 obovate, triangular, turgid, smooth, ribbed, with a smooth cloven 

 beak, more or less remarkably bent downward, and considerably 

 longer than the scales. Seed small, triangular, black. 



