MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA. Carex. 87 



Gramini cyperoidi ex nionte Ballon simile, spica totali e pluribus 

 spicis compositii. Raii Syn.422. Pluk. Alm.l78. Pfiyt. t. 34. 

 f. T; bad. 



In marshy watery meadows. 



Perennial. Maxj, June. 



Root creeping, running deep into the ground. Stems erect, 12 or 

 18 inches high, with 3 rough unequal angles. Leaves sheath- 

 ing the lower part of the stem, but scarcely reaching its sum- 

 mit, grass-green, flat, taper-pointed, rough at the edges and 

 keel. Spike oblong, bluntish, of a rusty brown, soft, moderately 

 compressed, but by no means two- ranked, composed of nume- 

 rous ovate acute spikelets, whose upper y/ore/s are barren, lower 

 fertile. Several of the lower more distant spiAreZe^s, as well as 

 one or more at the top, consist almost entirely of fertile Jiorefs; 

 while the numerous crowded ones in the middle part of the com- 

 mon spike or catkin are almost completely barren ; and as these 

 wither, leaving the others to ripen seed, they give a peculiar as- 

 pect and character to the present species. Bracteas ovate, acute, 

 rusty, keeled, with a white membranous margin, often torn; the 

 lowermost with a slender leafy poiat, not so long as the spike. 

 Scales much like the bracteas. Fruit ovate, bordered, rough- 

 edged, with a cloven beak. Stigmas sometimes 3. 



15. C. divisa. Bracteated Marsh Carex. 



Spike dense, once or twice compounded. Spikelets of bar- 

 ren and fertile florets, the latter inferior, most numerous. 

 Bractea leafy, erect. Fruit not spreading. Root creep- 

 ing. 



C. divisa. Huds. ed. 1. 348. ed. 2.405. H. Br. 973. Engl. Bot. 



vA6.t.\096. Gooden.Tr.ofL.Soc.v.2.\57.t.l9.f.2. Willd. 



Sp.PZ.u. 4.233. Hook. Scot. 262. Schk. Car.l9.t.RandV,v. 



/. 61. 

 Gramen cyperoides ex monte Ballon, spica divulsa. Raii Si/n. 423} 



the synonyms doubtful. 



In marshes, especially towards the sea. 



Near the Hithe at Colchester, and elsewhere. Mr. Newton. By 

 Hithe in Kent. J. Sherard. Near Acle bridge, Norfolk. Mr.C. 

 Bryant. At Cley. Mr. Woodicard. Near Hull. Mr. Teesdale. 

 At Kennington. Mr. Groult. 



Perennial. May, June. 



Root stout and contorted, creeping widely, with strong fibres. 

 Stems upright, but rather weak and slender, a foot or more in 

 height, triangular 3 roughish in the upper part. Leaves narrow, 

 erect, bright green, sheathing the base of the stem, various in 

 length. Spike about an inch long, dark brown, not reddish, 

 ovate J with an upright, leafy, triangular bractea, from 1 to 3 



