Carex. \ CYPERACE.E. 329 



Ballyphehane-bog, near Cork ; Mr. J. Drummond. Wet bank at 

 Luggelaw, County of Wicklow ; Doctor M' Creiyht. Ft. June. % . 

 — Stouter and taller than the last; spikelets with more numerous 

 flowers, lower one compound. Cal.-scales with two, close, green, 

 generally tough nerves, reaching to the summit. 



* * * * Barren and fertile flowers in separate spikes : the 

 barren mostly solitary. Bracteas leafy, often sheathing. 



f Stigmas three. 



18. C. pendula, Htids. Great pendulous Carex. Sheaths 

 elongated, nearly equal to the flower-stalks ; fertile spikes cy- 

 lindrical, very long and drooping ; fruit ovate, shortly acumi- 

 nate, bifid at the extremity, closely imbricated ; leaves broad. 

 Br. Fl. ed. 3. p. 397. E. Bot. t. 2315. E. Fl. v. iv. p. 95. 



Moist woods and ditches. Ditch-bank on the east side of the Royal 

 Canal between the north road and Glassnevin, in Powerscourt-woods 

 and other places in the County of Wicklow. Near Belfast; Mr. Tem- 

 pleton. Fl. May, June. %. — Well distinguished by its long, pendulous, 

 cylindrical spikes. 



19. C. strigosa, Huds. Loose pendulous Carex. Sheaths 

 elongated, equal to the flowerstalks ; fertile spikes slender, fili- 

 form, nearly erect ; fruit ovato-lanceolate, nerved, slightly re- 

 curved, loosely imbricated ; leaves rather broad. Br. Fl. ed. 3. 

 p. 397. E. Fl. v. iv. p. 95. E. Bot. t. 994. 



Moist woods and shady places. Plentiful at the Dargle, and Wood- 

 lands. Fl. May, June. % .— One to two feet high. Cal.-scales a 

 little shorter than the fruit. Readily distinguished from the following 

 species by its erect and longer fertile spikes. 



20. C. sylvatica, Huds. Pendulous Wood Carex. Sheaths 

 half as long as the flower-stalks ; fertile spikes filiform, rather 

 slender, slightly drooping; fruit broadly ovate, much acumi- 

 nated, cleft at the point ; leaves narrow. Br. Fl. ed. 3. p. 397. 

 E. Fl. v. iv. p. 96. E. Bot. t. 995. 



Moist woods, frequent. Fl. May, June. %. — Similar to the last; 

 but the spikes are shorter and broader ; the fruit very different, gla- 

 brous, and so acuminated as to terminate in a long beak. Cal.-scales 

 longer in proportion. 



21. C. spierostachya, Swartz. Dense short-spiked Carex. 

 " Sheaths shorter than the flower-stalks ; fertile spikes about 

 three, distant, erect, ovate, dense, many-flowered ; fruit ovate, 

 triangular, ribbed, smooth, with a deeply cloven beak, mem- 

 branous at the orifice." E. Fl. v. iv. p. 98. E. Bot. Suppl. 

 t. 2770. Br. Fl. ed. 3. p. 398— C. distans, Fl. Ban. t. 1049. 



Mourne Mountains, County of Down ; Doctor M l Creiyht, from 

 whom I received specimens. Fl. July, Aug. %. — Stem from nine to 

 fifteen inches high, erect, firm, triangular, smooth, leafy at the base. 

 Leaves chiefly radical, upright, firm, flat, taper- pointed, for the most 

 part smooth, except a slight and marginal roughness, their height 

 scarcely half that of the stem. 



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