80 MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA. Carex. 



peat bog. Light/. Near Glasgow. Hiids. On wet moors in the 

 Highlands. Dicks. On Ben Lomond. Rev. Dr. Walker. Ben 

 Nevis. Dr. Hooker and Mr. Borrer. To the north of Blair, 

 Mr. Winch; who found it also, for the first time in England, in 

 a peat moss near the south-west end of Crag lake, Northum- 

 berland. 



Perennial. June. 



Root creeping, scaly with long fibres. Herbage smooth. Steins 

 from 3 to 5 inches high, ascending, or erect, triangular, fur- 

 rowed. Leaves 2 or 3, sheathing the base of the stem, narrow; 

 channelled above. Catkin with one, rarely 2, terminal barren 

 florets ; and 2 or 3 fertile ones, reflexed as the seed ripens. 

 Stam. 3. Stigm. 3. Fruit of a pale rusty yellow, awl-shaped, 

 pointed, striated, rather longer than the scales of the catkin, 

 which are usually broken off by its reflexed position, as in the 

 last species. 



** CatJcins or spikelets, aggregate, each cornposed of barren 

 and fertile Jiorcts. Stigmas two. 



5. C. stellulata. Little Prickly Carex. 



Spikelets three or four, roundish, slightly distant. Barren 

 florets inferior. Fruit spreading, with a tapering undi- 

 vided beak. 



C. stellulata, Gooden. Tr. of L. Soc. v. 2. 144. Fl. Br. 906. Engl. 



Bot.v. 12. t. 806. Hook. Scot. 263. Forst. Tonbr. 103. Willd. 



Sp. PI. V. 4. 236. Schk. Car. 45. ^ C./. 14. Wahlenb. Lapp. 



231; excluding the reference to Schreher. 

 C. muricata. Huds. 406. Lightf .549. Leers 190. 1. 14. /. 8. Fl. 



Dan. t. 284. 

 C. echinata. Sibth. 28. Ehrh. Calam. 68. 

 C. n. 1366. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 187. 

 C. minor, radice fibrosa, foliis angustioribus, caule exquisite tri- 



angulari, spica sesquiunciali mutilata. Mich. Gen. 68. t. 33. 



/.9. 

 Gramen cyperoides spicatum minimum, spica divulsa aculeata. 



Rail Syn. 424. Scheuchz. Agr. 485. t. 1 1 ./. 3. 

 G. nemorosum, spicis parvis asperis. Bauh. Pin. 7 . Moris, v. 3, 



244.sec^8. f. 12./.26. 

 G. sylvaticum parvum tenuifolium, cum spicfi aculeata. Bauh. 



Hist. V. 2. 509. f.5\0. 

 In boggy meadows, especially on a barren soil, common. 

 Perennial. May, June. 

 Root tufted, rather woody, with many strong fibres. Herbage of a 



grass green. Stem 6-12 inches high, triangular, its edges 



roughish. Leaves flat, sheathing the base of the stem ; tapering 



and rough at the point. Spike erect, of 3 or 4 alternate, roundish 



spikelets, sometimes with a small brae tea under the lowermost. 



