MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA, Carex. 79 



Dan. t. 166. Leers 194. t.U.f.X. Schk. Car. 9. t.A.f.3. Ehrh. 

 Phijtoph. 7. 



C. Psyllophora. Ehrh. in Linn. SuppL 413. 



C. minima, caulibus et foliis capillaceis, capitulo singular! tenui- 

 ori, capsulis oblongis, utrinque acuminati.s et deorsum reflexis. 

 Mich. Gen.66.t.33.f. 1. 



Gramen cyperoides minimum, seminibus deorsum reflexis pulici- 

 formibus. Raii Syn. ed. 2. 269. ed. 3. 424. Pluk. Phyt. t.Z4. 

 f. 10. ilfom,'y.3.244.sec^8. M2./. 21. 



In spongy or muddy bogs, frequent. 



Perennial. June. 



Root tufted, of many slender, smooth, branched fibres. Stems 

 from 6 to 12 inches high, slender, quadrangular, smooth, leafy 

 at the base only. Leaves equally slender and smooth, trian- 

 gular, not quite so tall ; sheathing and ribbed at the base, with 

 hardly any stipula. Catkin slender when in flower^ subsequently 

 its lower half becomes tumid, consisting of fertile ^ore^5, the 

 upper of barren ones. Scales lanceolate, the lower ones forced 

 off by the reflexed, triangular, brown, smooth and ?,\\m\x\g fruit; 

 so that Willdenow, as often happens, has altered the specific 

 character for the worse, few Carices having scales so deciduous. 

 The stamens with us are certainly 3. Stigmas 2. 



The original Linnsean name being latin, like the classical generic 

 one, was most unadvisedly translated into Greek by Ehrhart ; 

 who being entrusted with the printing of the Suppl. Plant. 

 abused that trust, by corrupting the text in this and many other 

 instances, to the great displeasure of the younger Linnaeus. 

 He therefore ought not to be followed in any such alterations. 



Dr. Wahlenberg informs us, in his Fl. Lapp. 224, that C. pulicaris 

 is not found in Lapland, so that n. 339 of the Linnsean Fl. Lapp. 

 must be either the following species, or C. dioica. I should, 

 by the description, take it rather for the following, which Lin- 

 naeus in his herbarium mistook for pulicaris. 



4. C. paudflora. Few-flowered Carex. 



Catkin simple, lax, of few flowers ; the uppermost barren. 

 Fruit spreading, deflexed, awl-shaped, smooth. Stigmas 

 three. 



C.pauciflora. Lightf.543.t.6.f.2. fVilld. Sp. PL v. 4.2]]. Fl.Br. 



966. Engl. Bot. v. 29. t. 204 1 . Winch Guide v. 1 . 83. Hook. 



Scot. 26]. Dicks. H.Sicc.fasc.l.]6. Don. H.Br. 68. Schk. Car. 



\0.t.A.f.4. " Host Gram.v. 1.33.^.42." 

 C. patula. Huds. 402. and 657. 

 C. Leucoglochin. Ehrh. in Linn. Suppl. 4]3. Phytoph.8. Wahlenb. 



Lapp. 224. Fl. Dan. t. 1279, not 1379. 

 In alpine bogs, but rare, 

 .'^bout half way up the mountain of Goat-fell, isle of Arran, in a 



