122 MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA. Carex. 



rides, not always present. Barren catkins from 3 to 5, crowded, 

 triangular, sharp-pointed j their scales lanceolate, taper-pointed, 

 more or less awned, strongly keeled, of a uniform dark-brown, 

 rather downy. Fertile catkins 3 or 4, erect, stalked, thick, 

 cylindrical, pointed, especially when tipped with a few barren 

 Jlorets ; their scales ovate, smooth, tapering into a long, sharp, 

 rough, awn, Stam. 3. Stigni. 3. Fruit ovate, triangular, pale 

 brown, smooth, finely ribbed, tumid, inflated, not compressed 

 like the last, terminating in a broad, shortish, deeply cloven 

 beak, with 2 sharp distant points. Seeds small, whitish, trian- 

 gular. 

 Haller's n. 1404 is commonly taken for this plant, and it is possi- 

 ble he might have had it in view, along with some of our last- 

 described, under that number, as well as under his 1398 and 

 1399. Neither this eminent writer, nor Linnseus, was well ac- 

 quainted with these common Carices, Mr. Curtis being the first 

 who well explained them. The late Mr. Davall, from whom I 

 have Swiss specimens of the riparia, thought Haller had it not, 

 though he has referred to its synonyms, intermingled witli those 

 of other species. If the fruit, and the awns of the scales, be at- 

 tended to, no mistake can be made. 



55. C. Icpvigata. Smooth-stalked Beaked Carex. 



Catkins cylindrical; fertile ones stalked. Scales all pointed. 

 Sheaths very long. Fruit triangular, with a cloven beak. 



C. laevigata. Sm. Tr. of L. Soc. v. 5. 272. Fl. Br. 1005. Engl. 

 Bot. V. 20. 1. 1387. Hook. Scot. 269. Willd. Sp. PL v. 4. 295. 

 " Schk. Car. t. S, s, s./ 1 62." Willd. 



C.patula. Schk. Car. 1 15. i. B, b, b./. 116. 



C. sethiopica. Schk. Car. 107. t. Z.f 83. 



In marshes, and boggy thickets. 



In a marsh near Glasgow. Mr.J.Mackay. Near Aberdeen. Prof. 

 J. Beattie,jun. On Warley Common, Essex j also in Cornwall 

 and Sussex. Mr. E. Forster. 



Perennial. June. 



Root tufted, with long stout fibres. Herbage of a bright light 

 green, quite smooth in every part, except the upper bracteas 

 being rough at the edges, the lower one at the tip only. Stems 

 from 2 to 4 feet high, triangular J leafy in the lower part. Leaves 

 erect, about one-third of an inch broad, pointed, striated, the 

 uppermost only rough-edged towards the extremity j all with 

 long, close, striated, smooth sheaths. Bracteas leafy, long and 

 narrow, with very long sheaths. Catkins cylindrical, erect j 

 barren ones usually 2, an inch long, or more, rather lanceolate, 

 acute ; their scales light brown, lanceolate, acute, for the most 

 part tipped with a small point, or awn. Fertile catkins 2 or 3, 

 on very long, capillary, smooth stalks, much exceeding the 



