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TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 'Carex. 87 



cumstance at all times distinguishes it from the C. dioica, which 

 has a creeping root. Straw smooth ; 3 to 12 inches high. Spike 

 terminating, cylindrical* Summits 2. Goodenough. L. Tr. 142» 

 Leaves bristle-shaped, bright green, in tufts, half as long as the 

 straw. Spike f the male part slender, closely tiled* M. Flowers: 

 Scale somewhat oval. F. F leavers : Scales broad at the base, 

 embracing the germen, tapering to a point. Capsules longer 

 than the scales, at first pressed to, afterwards expanding, at last 

 bent back, in which state shining brown, spear-shaped both 

 ways, at a little distance much resembling a flea, Woodw. 



Flea Seg. Turfy and muddy bogs. Sides of Ingleborough 

 and other mountainous situations. Curt. — [Boggy meadows, 

 Norfolk, and near Bungay, Suffolk. Woodward. — Malvern 

 Chace. Mr. Ballard. — Pdlam near Darlington. Mr. Robson. 



Charley forest, Pujlteney, — On St. Vincent's rock 



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M. and F. florets: F. florets paueiflo'ra. 



about 3, not closely set^ expanding : M. floret gene- 

 rally 1^ terminating. 



Dicks. h* s. — Light/. 60 2. at p. 77 • 



Root branched. Straw (3 to 5 inches high,) upright trian- 

 gular, leafy, scored. Root-leaves few, sword-shaped, pointed, 

 naked, stem-leaves 2, shorter than the straw. Spike terminating, 

 upright. Barren Flowers 2 or 3, brown ; fertile flowers 3 or a, 

 greenish. Huds # 



Carex patula. Huds. 402 and 657. St. — Few-flowered Seg. 



Boggy soil halfway upGoatfield mountain in the Isle of Arran, 

 near a place where peat is dug in the ascent of Brodwick Castle. 



-Lightf. — Mountainous heaths. Near Glasgow. Huds. 



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Spike compound: loth male and female florets in each 



[C. atrata.] 



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4. C. Spikcts generally 3, (or 4,) distant: capsules di- stellula'ta. 



verging; entire at the rim ; acute. . ' 



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Root fibrous. Leaves very slender, the edges and the keel a 

 little rough, particularly upwards. Straw 3-cornered, whilst v 

 flowering 3 inches high, afterwards much longer, and taller than ■ 

 the leaves. Caps, only slightly or not at all cloven at the end. 

 Summits 2. Goodenough. L. Tr, ii« 144. Spikets with both 



