TRIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Carex. ios 



the wide straddling of the capsules, are sufficient to distinguish 

 it. The intermediate fruit-stalks are sometimes found doubled; 

 Goodenough. Stem triangular. M. spike smooth at bottom, 

 2 inches long, or more. Fern, spike i to nearly 3 inches. Caps. 

 when young pointing upwards, but expanding, when more ad- 

 vanced horizontal, when quite ripe pointing downwards. 



Bastard Seg. Moist shady places, banks of pools and ditches, 



common. 



P. June. 



35 C. Sheaths hardly any : all the spikes with male and atra'ta. 



female florets : upper spikes on fruit-stalks : when 

 in fruit, pendant: capsules egg-shaped, rather 

 pointed. 



Fl. dan. 15$-Scheuch. 11. 1 and 2. 



Root fibrous. Straw 3-cornered, a foot high, angles acute* 

 roughish. Leaves broad, shorter than the straw, rough at the 

 edge and on the keel. Upper spike mostly female, the lower ' 

 part only male, with an intermixture of hermaphrodite florets ; 

 which is often the case with the others. Spiles oblong, acute, 

 f inch high, on long fruit-stalks, near together ; pendent when 

 ripe. Scales black, with a green keel ; rather longer than the 

 capsules. FL leafy 1 to every spike, leaf-like, inclosing a very 

 small part of the fruit-stalk. Capsule green, egg-shaped, often 

 acute, compressed, slightly cloven at the end. Filaments 2. 

 Style with 3 hairy summits. This should, from the dispo- 

 sition of the male and female florets, have been arranged under 

 the 2d subdivision, but its habit strongly enforces its present 

 situation. The black egg-shaped spikes, and the want of sheaths 

 are sufficient to distinguish it. Goodenough. Leaves ash- 

 coloured sea-green, when dried yellowish green. Scheuch. Spikes 

 oval-spear-shaped, when in flower rising nearly to the same 

 height, the uppermost without floral-leaves, unequal, frequently 

 A or 2 small ones beneath the uppermost ; the upper with barren 

 flowers at the base, the rest mostly composed of fertile flowers. 

 Scales spear-shaped, black, with a brown keel, but when viewed 

 in a strong light of an extremely rich reddish brown. Stamens 2. 

 Summits mostly 3, sometimes 2. Woodward. 



Black Seg. Mountains of Wales about Llanberis, plenti- 

 fully. Highland mountains, frequent. P. June, Aug. 



36. C. Sheaths none: male spike slender, females some- piluli'fera 



what globular, sitting, crowded : straw feeble. 



Dich. h. s.-Fl. dan. WiS-Leers l6. 6-H. ox. viii. 12. 16- 



PluL 91.8. 



Root fibrous. Straw 3 to 6 inches long, or more; feeble, 

 bent, 3-cornered, angles acute, smoothish. Leaves fine yellowish 



