TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNTA. Carex. qq 



edges ; the lower on fruitstalks, the upper sitting, in the small 

 plants from the bosom of the leaves, and the lowermost, sometimes 

 almost at the root. Floral-leaves, in the larger plants 3 at the 

 base of the lowermost long, expanding, those above shorter, bent 

 back. Capsules short and thick, tapering to a point, pale 

 greenish yellow. Style divided nearly to the base into 3 summits* 

 Woodward. M. sp. has sometimes fern, florets at its base. St. 

 The length and the horizontal direction of the fl. leaf, together 

 with the globular heads of pointed capsules, render the investi- 

 gation easy. The long tapering point of the caps, distinguishes 

 this from the C. externa. Gooden. — Female spikes from 2 to 4. 

 Yellow Seg. Marsh hedge-hog Grass. Marshes and wet 



meadows, common. P. May, June. 



Var. 2. Lower sheath inclosing but half the fruitstalk, upper 

 ones nearly the whole. Fern, spikes 2, oblong, acute. Capsules 

 beak-pointed. 



Linn. Tr. ii. 20. 6. 



Ro9t creeping. Straw slender, upright, near a foot high, 3- 

 cornered, angles acute, rough. Leaves upright, narrow, rough 

 at the edge and on the keel, shorter than the straw. M. spike i, 

 terminating, slender, pointed, \ inch long or better. F. spikes 2, 

 (very rarely 3,) often distant, egg-oblong, acute, lower one oh a 

 longish fruitstalk, upper one nearly sitting. FL leaf, lower one 

 upright, tall as the straw, sheathing about half the fruitstalk. 

 Capsules somewhat 3-cornered, expanding, but not diverging, 

 beak-pointed and cloven at the end, fully as long as the scales. 



Summits 3. Carex fulva. Goodenough. Linn. tr. ii. 177. Dr. 



Goodenough, since the publication of the above memoir, autho- 

 rizes me to say, that having cultivated the C. fulva he is con- 

 vinced of its being only a variety of the C. flava. 



Eaton near Salop, found by the Rev. Mr. Williams. [Cherry 

 H in ton Fen, Cambridgeshire, and on the borders of Llyn Idwell 

 Lake, Carnarvonshire. Mr. Griffith.] P. Jane, July* 



25. C Sheaths very short, inclosing all the fruitstalk, the exten'sa. 



upper leaf-like part somewhat reflected : spikes 

 crowded : fem. spikes nearly globular : capsules 

 egg- shaped j acute. 



E. hot. 833-Lirix. Tr. ii. 21. 7- 



Straw a foot high or more, 3-cornered, angles bluntish, 

 smooth. Leaves narrow, towards the ends rough at the edge 

 and on the keel 



Sometimes there is a second M. sp 

 F. Spikes generally crowded at the base of the male, but some- 

 times the lower one is at a considerable distance, egg-shaped, or 

 conical, pointed, on short pedicles. Scales egg-shaped, dagger 

 pointed. FL leaves at the base of the fern, spikes, entiiely 



h 2 



M. Spike 1, si 



is a second M 



