



90 TRIANDHIA. M0N0GYNIA. Carex; 



straw. Spike the M. flower at the top, the female at the base. 

 Summits 2. Lightf. Its conic and compact spike sufficiently 

 distinguishes it from the C. arenarta. Goodenough. From the 

 description of different authors it appears that the curvature of the 

 straw is no necessary part of its character, though Mr. Lightfoot 

 had supposed it to J^e so, and Dr. Goodenough tells me that in all 

 the specimens he had seen, it had a crooked straw. 



Deep loose sea sand at the mouth of the water of Naver, and 

 near Skelherry in Dunrosness in Shetland. Hope iny?. scot. 



P. July, Aug. 



arena'ria. 10. C. Spike leafy, oblong, rather acute: spikets many, 



the upper ones male, the lower female : straw curved. 



Dicks, h. s.-Mich. 33. 3 and ±-Pluk. 34. S-T&ese fig. are 

 drawn unnaturally upright — PL XX. B. in seed. 



Root the size of a pack-thread, creeping in the dry sand to a 

 great length; knots about 3-4 ths of an inch distant, not every 

 one throwing out leaves or fibres. Leaves somevhat rolled in at 

 the edge, in tufts arising from a brown, dry, withered sheath. 

 Spike > to L 2 inches long, generally bent, Spikets 4 to 10, oval- 

 spear-shaped, the upper crowded and without floral-leaves Floral- 

 leaves, the lowermost generally shorter than the spike, the next 

 above, and sometimes the 2 next also, as long as the spikets. 

 Scales oval-spear-shaped, pointed, yellowish brown with a green 

 keel. Capsules spear-shaped, shorter than the scales, convex on 

 the upper, flat on the lower side, slightly cloven at the end. 

 Style divided as it issues from the capsule. Summits bent back. 

 Woodw. Caps, bordered towards the top, 2 on each side, with 

 a membranaceous edge. Goodenough. 



Sea Seg. In loose moveable sand on the sea-shore. [Sea 

 beach at Yarmouth and Lowestoft. Mr. Woodward. — Beach 

 near Prestatyn, Flintshire, and Conway Marsh, Carnarvonshire. 

 Mr. Griffith.] P. June. 



Var. 2. Straw and spikes upright : Root fibrous. PL XX. A. 



the upright variety. B. a straw of the common sort in seedy to shew 

 the curvature, a. a. a. views of the capsule to shew its membra- 

 naceous border. About > inches high, stiff, upright. Root 

 fibrous, not creeping. Straw 3-cornered, naked, but sheathed 

 at the base by the leaves for about an inch from the root, haves 

 sheathing, slender, and channelled upwards, solid and 3-cornered 

 at the end, finely serrated at the edges and cprners, nearly as tall 

 as the straw. Partial Imolucrum half embracing the spike-stalk, 

 broad and leaf-like at the base, slender and pointed upwards. 

 Spike i2-rowed, I to. 1^ inch long, more than t inch broad ; spear- 

 shaped. Spikets sitting, many-flowered ( 1 4 or more) egg-shaptd, 

 upper spikets mostly male, the others mostly female. Scales 

 spear-shaped, skinny, yellow, v/ith a green midrib, ending in an 



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