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J* I 



TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Carex. 



95 



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Mr. Woo 



Cultivated in a rich wet 



soil, the bunch became as much branched as in the preceding. 



GoODENOUGH. 







17. C. Spike more than doubly compound, branched but teretius'cula* 



compact, rather acute: spikets crowded, M. florets 

 at the top : capsules expanding; straw roundish. 



Linn. Tr. ii. 19. 3, 



Root fibrous. Straw when in flower but \ the length of the 

 leaves : in seed, 12 or 18 inches high ; 3-cornered, angles rough, 

 acute, but the sides have a longitudinal projection which gives 

 the whole a rounded appearance. Leaves rigid, sheathing near 

 half the straw, rough on the keel and at the edges. Spike egg- 

 oblong, rather pointed. Fl. leaf, the lower one very short, 

 ending in an awn ; shorter than the spiket. Spikets and their spi- 

 cule egg-shaped, pointed, sitting. M.fl. uppermost numerous. 



Caps, rough at the edges, expand- s 



2. GoODEN. 



Fern, about 6 ; placed below. 



ing ; when ripe, longer than the scales. Summits 

 in Linn. Tr. ii. 16*3. who observes that it comes very near the 

 C. paniculata, but is only half the size of that in all its parts. 

 Marshes near Norwich, discovered by Mr. Crowe. [At Ful- 



bburne. Mr. Relhan.] 



P. May. 



(3) Spikes 1 male y the others female: floral leaves mem- 

 branaceous. 



IS. C. Sheaths membranaceous, not leaf-like, inclosing digita'tsu 



half the fruitstalk; spikes strap-shaped, upright, 



:est; capsules distant. 



Mich. 32. Q-Scheuch. 10. 14-C 



9. % ; th. 48. 



Root fibrous. 



Leaves longer than the straw when in flower, 

 lough at the edge, quite smooth on the keel. Fern, sp* of about 

 7 florets. Cap sales pubescent, not cloven. Summits 3. Goodek. 

 Leaves in a thick tuft. Stems obscurely triangular slender, not 



rough, one half to one foot high, entirely naked, except some 

 * Irown leafy sheaths at the base. Barren spike half inch 

 long, closely tiled, from the same sheath with the uppermost fer- 

 tile spike, and being shorter, overtopped by it. Scales numerous, 

 Jrellowish brown, membranaceous and shining at the ends, and so 



Fertile spikes 3 or 4, alter- 

 nate, distant, about an inch long, on fruit-stalks. Florets alter- 

 nate, distinct. Scales like those of the barren spikes, as long as 

 the capsules. Caps, obscurely triangular, tapering to a biunt 



point. Style divided half way down into 3 summits. Wood- 

 war eu 



bluntly rounded as to seem lopped. 



