Carex.] CYPERACE/E. 327 



spike ; fruit ovato-acuminate, plano-convex, acute, angular, 

 divergent ; stem very acutely triangular ; leaves broad. Br. VI. 

 ed. 3. p. 394. E. Fl. v. iv. p. 90. E. Bot. t. ;307. 



Wet shady place9 and ditches. Fl. June. %. — Two feet or more 

 high. Stem stout, rough, as well as the broad leaves at their margin. 

 Bracteas small, setaceous. Spike large, greenish. Fruit pale, rough 

 at the margin of the lengthened beak, and bifid at the point. 



10. C. teretiuscula, Gooden. Lesser panicled Carex. Spike- 

 lets sterile at their extremity, scarcely compound, and collected 

 into a slender cylindrical interrupted spike ; fruit ovato-acumi- 

 nate, even above, not margined, gradually attenuated into 

 rather a long serrulated bifid beak; stem bluntly triangular; 

 leaves very narrow. Br. Fl. ed. 3. p. 394. E. Fl. v. iv. p. 91. 

 E. Bot. t. 1065. 



Boggy, watery meadows. In the marble-hole, Cranmore, near Bel- 

 fast ; Mr. Templeton. Fl. May, June. %. — Resembling the follow- 

 ing- species, but does not, like it, grow in clumps. It is also much 

 smaller, with far narrower leaves, blunter stems, with browner, more 

 acuminatedy/'UiV, which is less broad, less gibbous beneath, less flat on 

 the upper side, destitute of margin and of raised lines at the base. 



11. C. paniculata, Linn. Great panicled Carex. Spikelets 

 sterile at their extremity, compound, collected into a sort of 

 panicled spike ; fruit ovate, gibbous beneath, slightly margined, 

 flat above, and striated at the base, acuminated into rather a 

 short bifid serrulated beak ; stem acutely triangular ; leaves 

 broad. Br. Fl. ed. 3. p. 394. E. FL v. iv. p. 92. E. Bot. 

 t. 1064. 



Swampy and spongy bogs, frequent. Fl. June. %. — Roots densely 

 tufted. Stern much stouter than the last, two to three feet high, and 

 essentially distinguished by having three acute rough angles, whose 

 intermediate spaces are flat, striated, without any central rib. 



* # * Spikeltts aggregated, their loivermost flowers sessile. 

 Stigmas two. 



12. C. stellulata, Gooden. Little prickly Carex. Spikelets 

 few (3 — 4), sterile at their base, roundish, distant ; fruit ovate, 

 much attenuated, plano-convex, acute, angular, spreading, rough 

 at the margin. Br. Fl. ed. 3. p. 395. E. Fl. v. iv. p. 80. E. 

 Bot. t. 806. 



Marshes and heathy places, common. Fl. May, June. %. — A span 

 to a foot high. Leaves nearly as long as the stem. Distinguished by 

 its few, much-beaked capsules, placed in small rounded spikelets, and 

 which spread, when ripe, in every direction. 



13. C. curta, Gooden. White Carex. Spikelets sterile at 

 their base, about five, rather distant, elliptical ; bracteas very 

 minute (except the lower one) ; fruit broadly ovate, acute, 

 plane above, slightly convex beneath, subobtusangular, faintly 



