332 NOTES ON SOME BRITISH CARICES. 



" Var. ELATioR, Schlecht. Fl. Berol. i. 477 (1823), v. s. Hb. Berol. 

 " C.flava, Host, Gram. Austr. i. 48, t. 63, f. 4. v. t. C, lepido- 

 carpa, Tausch, Flora, 1834, 129. C. Lipsimsis, Peterm. Fl. Lips. 

 58 (1838), V. s. Hb. Berol. C. ;)//;7/bn///s, F. Scliultz, Jahr. xv. 

 122, teste F. Scliultz. C. Jiava, var. lejndocarpa, Anderss. Cyp. 

 Scaiid. 25 (1849), and many authors since. C. Marssoni, Auers- 

 wald, Bot. Zeit. 1852, 409. C.fiava, var. Marssoni, Marsson, Fl. 

 Neu-Vorp. 537 (1869). 



*' Staminate spike long-peduncled, pistillate spikes scattered or 

 remote and commonly not more than two and the lowest one 

 usually pcduncled, perigynium smaller, straight or but slightly 

 bent, bracts and leaves narrow, and the colour dull green through- 

 out, tall and slender (1 to 2 ft.). Europe. In America, repre- 

 sented by 



" Var. RECTERosTRATA, Ballcy, Bot. Gaz. xiii. 84 (1888). 



** Staminate spike sessile or nearly so, pistillate spikes three to 

 four, of which the two or three uppermost are sessile and con- 

 tiguous or approximate, the lowest being somewhat remote and 

 more or less peduncled, spikes looser-flowered than in var. elatior, 

 perigynium shorter than in the species and straight or nearly so, 

 bracts long and spreading, but narrow, the lowest sheathing, 

 leaves narrow, whole plant green, tall. Vancouver Island, Macuiin. 



''Var. (Ederi, Liljeblad, Svensk. Fl. 1st. ed. (1792). 



" C. divisa (Eder, Fl. Dan. fuse. vii. 4, t. 371 (1768). C. (JUeri, 

 Ehrh.* Calam. Exsicc. No. 79 (1790?); Willd. Mem. Acad. Boy. 

 1794, 44, t. 1, f. 2; Schkuhr, Riedgr. 67, t. Ff. 26 (1801). 0. 

 patula, Host, Gram. Austr. i. 48, t. 64, f. 1 and C. (Ederi Host, 1. 

 c. 49, t. 65, f. 1, V. t. C. (Ederi, Eng. Bot. t. 1773 (1801), v. t. 

 C. flava var. flavescens, Wahl. Act. Holm. xxiv. 150 (1803). C. 

 fUiva, var Willd. Sp. PL iv. 269 (1805). C. fiava, f3. Schkuhr, 

 Riedgr. Nacht. 56 (1806). C. Jiava, var. hitescem, Wahl. Fl. Lapp. 

 234 (1812), V. s. Hb. Wahl. C. jiava, var. (Edn'i, Schlecht. Fl. 

 Berol. 477 (1823), and many authors since. C. (Ederi, vars. mdo- 

 carpa, elatior and j^ijgmaa, Anderss. Cyp. Scand. 25 (1849). C. 

 flava forma depressa, F. Scliultz, Herb. Norm. Exsicc. cent. x. 

 No. 955 bis. v. s. C. Ku flava, var. lepidocarpa, Syme, Eng. Bot. 

 ed. iii. x. 159, t. 1673 (1870), v. t. C. flava, vars. jiumila and 

 intermedia, Coss. et Germ. Fl. Paris, Ed. i. C.flava, var. patiUa, 

 Coss. et Germ. Fl. Paris, Ed. iii. C. Jlava, var. minor. Towns. 

 Journ. Bot. xix. 161, v. s. ; Bailey, Bot. Gaz. xiii. 84 (1888j. 



*• Staminate spike usually short-stalked, or a very small pistil- 

 late spike at its base, pistillate spikes green, scattered, some of 

 them often radical, the lower ones peduncled, all densely flowered, 

 perigynium small, rounded below, beak shorter than the body, 

 straight or nearly so, bracts comparatively broad and long, spread- 

 ing, leaves broad for the size of the plant which is low (3 to 8 in.) 



* " Ehrhart cites Eetz as authority for the species, but Eetz declares that his 

 plant is not the plant of Ehrhart (Kongl. Vet. Acad, llandl. xiv. 314, Stock- 

 holm, 1793). See also Lilj. Svensk., and Schk. Kiedgr." 



