TRIANDRIA. M0K0GYN1A. Carex. m 



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In 8 rows, inflated, globular, awn-pointed or beaked, diverging, 

 yellowish, ending in 2 little teeth. Summits 3. The sheaths of 

 the root-leaves have the fibrous texture before mentioned in the 

 C. stricta. Goodenough. Stem 1 to 4 feet high, angles ob- 

 scurely marked. Woodward. — The scales both of the male and 

 female flowers in the C. vesicaria are acutely pointed or awned, 

 but in this species they are less acute and not at all awned. ■ 



Beaked Seg. C. irsicaria. Huds. C. rostrata. Bot. Arr. 

 ed. ii. — Bogs and marshy watery places, but not very common. 

 Bogs of Isla, and on Benteskerny in Breadalbane. Lightf.- 

 Common in the North, on the edges of brooks and rivulets, as 

 in Giggleswick Tarn, and borders of Semer Water, Wcnsledale. 

 Not nearer London than Virginia Water. Curt. — [ Near Bun- 

 gay, Suffolk, frequent. Mr. Woodward. — Mill below Droit- 

 wich. Mr. Baker. — In a pool in the Lakewood, near Puckle- 

 church, Gloucestershire, Mr. Swayne. — Edgbaston Pool.] 



P. May— July* 



45 ♦ C. Hairy: all the spikes oblong; female spikes far hir'ta. 



asunder, sheathed : capsules hairy. 



Dicks. £./.-£. boU 6S5~Leers 16. 3-#. ox. viii. 11?. 10- 

 FL dan. 379. 



Root creeping very much. Straw upright, 3 -square, angles 

 very acute and rough. Leaves near { inch broad, hairy, rather 

 shorter than the straw, rough on the keel arid the edges. Af. 

 spikes 2. F. spikes 3, far asunder, the lower on long fruit-stalks, 

 FL leaves 1 to each female spike, sheathing near half the fruit- 

 stalk of the lower spike. Summits 3. Goodenough. The 

 hairiness of the leaves, the scales, and the capsules so clearly 

 distinguish this from every other species, as to render a more 

 minute description quite unnecessary. 



Hairy Seg. Meadows 



Mr. Baker. — Stews at Edgbaston.] 



May, J 



TY'PH A. Catkin cylindrical : Bl 



M. CaL 3 bristle-shaped 





F. Florets on the same plant, below the males. 

 Cal. soft hairs : Seed I, standing on a fine bristle. 



T. Leaves somewhat sword-shaped : spike with the male latifolia. 



and 



Curt. n\~Kmph. 6-Fuchs. 823-7 



18. row 3. 1 



■M. 



Ger. W-Trag. 681-DoJ. 604-Lcb. ebs. 42. 1,'tc. 1.81. 

 1-Ger. em . 46-Lonic. t. 173. 1, 6,-Park. 120k l-J. B. 

 ii. 527* 1 and 2. 



