128 MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA. Caiex. 



Perennial. June ? 



Of this I have seen but one specimen, and that none of the best. 

 The herbage is of a very slender habit, and smooth. Stem tri- 

 angular, 15 inches high, leafy at the bottom only. Leaves not 

 quite so tall, erect, linear, acute, extremely narrow, channelled, 

 or involute, at least when dry. Bracteas leafy, but flatter, 

 reaching nearly to the summit of the stem, without sheaths, or 

 auricles. Barren catkins 2, the uppermost stout, obovate, ob- 

 tuse, ^ an inch long ; the other ovate, much smaller j their 

 scales obovate-oblong, pointless, dark chesnut-coloured, with a 

 pale rib. Fertile catkin at a little distance below, on a shortish 

 stalk, erect, ovate, ^ of an inch long, with similar scales. Stam. 

 3. Stigm. all fallen. Fruit greenish ovate, slightly ribbed, 

 smooth, moderately compressed, with a very short, abrupt, 

 scarcely notched, beak. 



The leaves approach C. nardifolia, Willd. v. 4. 304 ; X\\e fruit and 

 scales C. stricta; but the stigtnas are unfortunately wanting. I 

 cannot refer this Cflrex to any described species, though in many 

 particulars it is not very remote from the following. Their 

 fruits however are altogether dissimilar. 



62. C.Jilifoiyjiis. Slender-leaved Carex. 



Fertile catkins ovate. Scales pointed. Sheaths nearly equal 

 to the short flower-stalks. Fruit ovate, hairy, with a 

 deeply cloven beak. Leaves linear, channelled, smooth. 



C. filiformis. Linn. Sp. PL 1385. IVilUl v. 4. 303. Gooden. Tr. 

 of L.Soc.v.2.\72.t. 20./. 5. Fl. Br. ]008. Engl. Bot.v.13. 

 t. 904. Hook. Scot. 270. Don. H. Br. 43. FL Dan. t. 1344. 

 Wahlenb. Lapp. 234. Schk. Car. 82. t. K.f. 45. 



C. angustifolia. Linn. Ms. in Sp. PL ed. 1. 975. 



C. tomentosa. Light/. 553. Huds. 650. 



C. hirta. FL Dan. 1.^379. 



C. lasiocarpa. Ehrh. Calam. 19. 



C. splendida. Willd. BeroL 33. t.\./. 3. 



In boggy meadows, not common. 



Plentifully at the south end of Ayr Links, Scotland. Dr. Hope. In 

 the Moss of Restenet, and other places in Scotland. Mr. J. 

 Mackay. In a bog near Aviemore, Strathspey. Mr. Borrer. 

 Near Eaton, Shropshire. Rev. E. Williams. Near Stoke, Nor- 

 folk. Rev. R. Forby. 



Perennial. June. 



Root creeping. Herbage smooth. Stem erect, leafless, except at 

 the very bottom, 2 feet high, straight, slender, round, rushy j 

 often triangular, with rough edges, at the summit. Leaves up- 

 right, straight, narrow, channelled, or involute, pointed rough 

 at the edges only, rounded at the back, without any keel. Brac- 

 teas very similar to the foliage, partly rising above the stem, with 



