MONOECIA-TRIANDUIA. Carex. 81 



each consisting of a few barren Jlorets in llicii lower part, and 

 several fertile ones above. Fruit sjjreading, ovate, ribbed, brown, 

 with a flat beak, which is green and rough at the edges, scarcely 

 cloven at the extremity. 



G. C. curt a. White Carex. 



Spikelets about six, elliptical, slightly distant, scarcely 

 bracteated. Scales ovate, membranous, about as long 

 as the ovate, tumid, smooth fruit. 



C. curta. Gooden. Tr.of L.Soc.v,2.\Aa. Fl.Br.967. Engl. Bot. 

 v.20.t.l3S6. Hook. Scot. 263. Forst. Tonbr. \ 03. Willd. Sp. 

 PL V. 4. 241. Car. Berol. 1 9. t. 2.f. 3. " Host. Gram. v. 1. 37. 

 t. 48." Schk. Car. 43. t. C.f. 13. Don. H. Br. 194. 



C. brizoides. Huds. 406. 



C. canescens. Light/. 550. Fl. Dan. t. 285. Wahlenb. Lapp. 232. 



C. elongata. Leers 197. t. 14. f.7. 



C. tenella. Ehrh. Calam. 98. 



C. n. 1360. Hall. Hist. V. 2. 185. 



Gramen cyperoides palustre elegans, spica composita asperiore. 

 Raii Syn. 423. 



G. cyperoides elegans, spica composita molli. Dill, in Raii Syn. 

 423. Pluk. Almag.178. Phyt. t. 34. f. 4. Rel. Rudb. 2. f. 34. 



G. cyperoides, spicis curtis divulsis. La:s. Pruss. 1 1 7. ^ 32. 



In watery meadows, and about the borders of pools and ditches, 

 rather uncommon. 



In a pool at Middleton, Warwickshire, towards Cole's hill j also 

 near Wrexham, Denbighshire, and in other places. Ray. In 

 bogs in Isla, about two miles from the Sound ; also in ditches 

 by Loch Leven. Herb. Light/. Common in marshy ground in 

 Mearn's shire. Pro/. Beattie. At Virginia water, Windsor forest. 

 Bishop o/ Carlisle. Near Blundeston, Suffolk. Mr. D. Turner. 



Perennial. June. 



Root slightly creeping. Stem a foot high, with 3 angles rough in 

 the upper part only. Z-eares narrow, erect, taper-pointed, rough 

 at the edges and keel, not quite so tall. Spikelets from 4 to 6, 

 scarcely more, alternate, of a short, tumid, oval shape, and a 

 pale silvery hue ; the upper ones crowded ; lowermost now and 

 then accompanied by a slender bractea. A few of the lower 

 Jlorets barren ; the rest fertile. Scales all ovate, membranous, 

 acute, with a green rib not reaching to the point. Fruit broadly 

 ovate, rather tumid, finely ribbed, not furrowed, smooth, with 

 an undivided point. Seed exactly elliptical, flattened, tipped 

 with the permanent style. 



The neat, tumid, pale, silvery-white spikelets readily distinguish 

 this Carex. 



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