



TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Carex. 89 



Naked Seg. C. leporina. Huds. — Marshes and watery places, 

 [On Westbromwich heath, on the south side.] P. June. 



7. C. Spikets axillary, solitary, distant^, nearly sitting: remo'ta. 



floral-leaf very long t capsules undivided at the end. 



£. tot. 832-i/. ox. viii. 12. 17-Leers 15. l-Fl. dan. 37C- 

 Mich. 33. 15 and \ti-Pluk. 34. 3. 



Spikes very small, the lower often on short fruit-stalks, Linn. 

 A very elegant plant. Stems several together, 1 to 2 feet high, 

 slender, weak, 3-cornered, leafy below, above the lowermost 

 floral-leaf rough, below smooth. Leaves numerous, slender. 

 Spikes 5 to 8, sitting, spear-shaped, the 3 or 4 lowermost in the 

 bosom of the floral-leaves, the upper naked. Floral-leaves, the 

 lowermost longer than the stem, the 2 or 3 next above gradually 

 shorter than the lowermost. Scales spear-shaped, when young 

 with a green keel, and silvery membranaceous edges ; when the 

 seeds are ripe, yellowish. Style divided about the point of the 

 capsule into *2 summits. Capsule longer than the scales. Woodw. 

 Leaves, edged with exceedingly fine teeth. * 



Remote Stg* Moist woods and sides of wet ditches. 



P. May, June. 



g. C. Spikets axillary, often 3 together, distant, sitting : axillaris. 



floral-leaf long : capsules cloven at the end. 



Linn. Trans, ii. If). 1. 



Neither this nor the preceding species can well be mistaken 

 for any other, and though in many circumstances they agree one 

 with the other, yet the following observations of Dr. Goodenough 

 are abundantly sufficient to distinguish them. In C\ axillaris 

 the straw is strong and rigid ; in C, remota soft and feeble. 

 C. axillaris has 3 to 5 Spikets growing together ; the remota has 

 never more than I at the base of each leaf. Caps, in remota 



entire, in axillaris cloven. Linn. Tr. ii. p. 151 #j 



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May, J 



9. C. Spike conical, composed of many sitting spikets incur'va 



crowded together : involucrum none : straw curved. 



Lightf.fl. 2A~Allion.jl. 9Z. 4-f/. dan. 132.* 



Rcot creeping. Stalk 3 or 4 inches high, indistinctly trian- 

 gular. Leaves smooth; channelled, about the length of the 



* Scheuch. prodr. 4, 3, had been referred by Dr. Stokes to this spe- 

 cies, but Dr. Coodenough says it belongs to Haller's C. fioetida, and that 

 it is entirely different from the incurva, as well in the foliage as in the 

 fapsule and husks. 





