

i04 TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Carex. 



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of leaves and stems. Leaves long, bright green, rough, the up. 

 permost nearly as long as the stem. Stems slender, triangular, 

 rough. Barren spike, Scales spear-shaped, the lowermost awned, 

 yellowish brown with a green keel. Fertile spike generally single, 

 loosely tiled, on a long slender fruit-stalk. Scales ovaUspear- 

 shaped, taper pointed, of a very rich shining brown, with a yel- 

 lowish green keel. FloraUleaves^ J at the base of the lower, 

 most spike, if more than 1 ; very slender, about an inch long. 

 Caps, oval, bluntish, bright sea-green. Summits long. Woodw. 

 Distinguished from C. recurva by its very short sheath, its egg- 

 shaped female spike, and by the shape and colour of its capsules, 

 which are brown when ripe and not black. Goodenouch. 

 M. spike single, slender, not an inch long. Caps, rather longer 

 than the scales, taper pointed, entire at the end. Summits 3. Fem. 

 spike 1 or 2, few-flowered. 



C. elegans. Wiidenow. Woodward. — BroivnSeg. Peatbogs 



and marshes, Yorksh. Lancash. Westmorel. &c. frequent. Huds. 



Tullybanchar, half a mile west of Comrie near Crief. Mr. 



r Stuart in fl. Scot. [Hey don, Norfolk. Bryant. — St. Faith's 



Newton Bogs. Woodward. — Moss of Resten^t, Scotl. Mr. 

 Brown. — Peat bog on Mendip Hills. Mr. Swayne. [P. June. 



pseudo- .34. C. Sheaths hardly any: fem. spikes cylindrical, on 

 cype'rus. fruit-stalks, pendent : capsules awn-beaked, rather 



diverging. 



Fl.dan. 1117-£.?^/. 242-ZW. 330-Lob. ic. i.76. 2-Ger. 

 em. 2$. Z-Parh. 1266. 4-C. B. th. S5~7, B. ii. 4J)6. 3- 

 //. ex. viii. 12. 5. 



Floral-leaves nearly bristle-shaped. Capsules when ripe bent 

 back, awl-shaped, scored, tapering and ending in a double thorn 

 or awn. Linn. Stem 1 £ to 3 feet high, leafy below, naked 

 above, triangular, edged with sharp teeth, with a joint near the 

 top. Leaves forming thick tufts, long, broad, finely toothed, 

 edges cutting. Floral-leaves similar to the other leaves, the low- 



ermost broad, often more than a foot long, at the joint at the top 

 of the stem, those above narrower and shorter. Fertile spikes 

 from the bosom of the floral-leaves, at a small distance one above 

 the other, sometimes 2 together, the lowermost on a long slender 

 fruit-stalk, when in flower upright, when in fruit pendent, from 3 

 to 5, all rising to nearly the same height; scales green, avvl- 

 shaped, longer than the capsules, finely toothed at the edges, and 

 on the back. Capsules pale green, spear-shaped, obscurely 3* 

 square, elegantly ribbed. Stjle divided into 3 summits, scarcely 



longer than the awns of the capsule. Barren Spikk terminat- 

 ing, ? inches long; scales closely tiled, yellowish brown, termi- 

 nated by a long awn, toothed like the stem, and longer than the 

 filaments. Woodward. Root fibrous. Caps* rather bellying in 



the middle. The minuteness of the sheaths, the long points, and 



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