84 MONOECIA— TRIANDRIA. Carex. 



fig. i, k, I, from a starved specimen of C. loUacea. His fig. h is 

 far more correct. 



10. C. remota. Remote Carex. 



Spikelets several, solitary, simple, remote, nearly sessile. 

 Bracteas very long, overtopping the stem. Fruit ovate, 

 vi'ith a slightly cloven beak. 



C. remota. Linn. Sp. PL 1383. mild. v. 4. 239. Fl. Br. 969. 

 Engl. Bot.v.\2.t. 832. Hook. Scot. 263. Fl. Dan. t.370. Leers 

 ]f)7. t. 15./ 1. Rel. Riidh. \.f. 27. Schk. Car. 4G. t. E.f. 23. 

 Elirh. Calam. 58. 



C. axillaris. Linn. Sp. PI. 1382. Li^in. Ms. 



C. n. 1357. Hall. Hisf. v. 2. 184. 



C. angustifolia, caule triquetro, capitulis piilchellis, S:c. Mich. 

 Gen. 70. n. 2, 3. t.33.f. 15, 16. 



Gramen cypcroides angustifolium, spicis parvis sessilibus in folio- 

 rum alis. Rail Si/n. 424. Pluk. Almag. 1 78. Phijt. t. 34./. 3. 

 Moris. V. 3. 243. sect. 8. t. 12./. 17. 



In moist shady places, by rivulets and ditches. 



Perennial. May, June. 



Root tufted, with stout smooth fibres. Herbage pale and slender. 

 Stem about a foot high ; leafy, smooth and roundish below ; 

 triangular and rough-edged in the upper part. Leaves narrow. 

 Spikelets several, ovate, many-flowered, pale, yellowish ; the 

 lower ones solitary, and about 2 inches asunder, each accom- 

 panied by a very long, narrow, leafy bractca, whose bristly point 

 rises above the stem j the upper ones smaller, crowded toge- 

 ther, destitute of bracteas. Barren florets inferior, with 3 sta- 

 mens. Fertile rather more numerous. Fruit ovate, ribbed, 

 beaked ; evidently, though not deeply, cloven at the extremity, 

 rather longer than the scales. 



11. C axillaris. Axillary Clustered Carex. 



Spikelets several, remote, sessile ; the lower ones com- 

 pound, with very long bracteas. Fruit ovate ; its beak 

 deeply cloven. 



C. axillaris. Gooden. Tr. of L. Soc. v. 2. \5\. t. 19. f. I. Fl. Br. 



970. Engl. Bot. v 14. t. 993. mild. Sp. PI. v. 4. 239. Schk. 



Car. 47. t.R.f.62. 

 In marshes, and the neighbourhood of wet ditches, on a strong soil. 

 Near Putney. Mr. Curtis. At Earsham, Norfolk. Mr. Woodward. 



Found in Switzerland by the late Mr. Davall. 

 Perennial. June. 

 Nearly akin to the last, but larger, with broader leaves, and smaller 



bracteas, except the lower one. The bracteated spikelets are 



generally compound in their lower part. Beak of the fruit more 



