MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA. Caiex. 89 



numerous fertile ones below, ovate when in blossom, afterwaicls 

 globose and more spreading, all rather near together, even the 

 lowermost not more than its own length distant from the next. 

 This lowest spikelet is rarely somewhat enlarged, or compound. 

 Bracteas ovate, membranous, keeled, the bristly point of the 

 lower one sometimes rising much above the spikelet. Scales 

 ovate, rusty-coloured, pointed, with a green keel. Fruit longer 

 than the scales, ovate, green, finally brown, spreading, exter- 

 nally convex, with a broad, fiat, rough-edged, cloven beak, 

 whose points render the whole spike prickly, as the name ex- 

 presses. Stigmas 2, long and twisted. 



In some Swiss specimens the fruit is partially elongated, and tu- 

 mid ; apparently diseased. 



/3 appears to be a variety, caused by dryness of soil, having smaller 

 rounder sjnkelets, all quite simple, and a rather smoother stem. 

 Schkuhr represents the beak of i\\efruit shorter than in our 

 Shropshire plant, but this is not always so correctly attended to 

 in his exquisite figures as most other characters. 



17. C. divulsa. Grey Carex. 



Spike elongated, lax. Spikelets of its lower half finally very 

 distant, mostly single. Fruit erect, smooth-edged ; rough- 

 ish at the cloven point of the beak. Root fibrous. 



C. divulsa. Gooden. Tr. of L. Soc. v. 2. 160. Fl. Br. 975. Engl. 



Bot. V. 9. t. G29. Willd. Sp. Pl.v. 4. 235. Sclik. Car. 20. t.W,w. 



f. 89. " Host. Gram. v. 1. 42. t. 55." 

 C. canescens. Huds. 405. 



C. muricata /3. IVahlenb. in Stockh. Trans, for 1803. 143. 

 C. divisa. Don. H. Br. 196. 

 C. nemorosa, fibrosa radice, caule exquisite triangulari, spicit 



longa, divulsa, seu interrupta, capitulis omnibus solitariis. Mich. 



Gen. 69. t. 33./. 1 1 . 

 Gramen cyperoides spicatum minus, spica longa divulsa seu in- 

 terrupta. Raii Sijn. ed.2. 269 ; with a good description : ed. 3. 



424 J with a false reference to Lasel, introduced by Dillenius. 



Petiv. Cone. Gram. 6. n. 184. 

 G. cyperoides gracilealterum, glomeratis torulis spatiodistantibus. 



Lob. Illustr. 61. 

 G. cyperoides, echinata et rara^ spica, nemorosum minus. Barrel. 



Ic. t. 20. f. 2. 

 /3. Carex nemorosa, fibrosa radice, caule exquisite triangulari, 



^spica longa, divulsa, seu interrupta, capitulis solitariis prseter- 



quarn ultimo. Mich. Gen. 69. t.33.f. 10; copied and coloured in 



Schk. Car.t.D,d.fS9. 



In moist shady pastures, not uncommon. 



Perennial. May, 



Root tufted, of many stout, jjartly shaggy, fibres. Herbage bright 



