452 THE SEDGE FAMILY. 



8. Few-flowered Spike-rush — {Elebcharis pauciflora.) 

 Hale Moss, abundant. Fl. July. 



E. B. xvi. 1122 (as Scirpus paucijlorus). 



9. Heath Spike-rush — [Eleocharis ccespitosa.) 

 On all the moors and mosses about Manchester, plentiful. Fl. May, 



June. 



E. E. XV. 1029 (as Scirpus coespitosus). 



10. Needle Spike-rush — {Eledcharis aciculdris.) 



On the borders of Mere Mere, abundant. Worsley. (J. E.) "Near 

 Knutsford." (B. G.) Fl. July, August. 



Curtis, iii. 446 ; E. B. si. 749 (both as Scirpus acicularis). 



11. Floating Spike-rush — [E led charts fluiians.) 



In ditches and ponds, especially where sometimes dried up, and in 

 shallow water on heaths, rather uncommon. Chorlton. Withington. 

 Baguley. Near Boothstown. (J. E.) Fl. August. 

 E. B. iii. 210 (as Scirpus Jluitans). 



12. Hare's-tail Cotton-grass — {Eriuphorum vaginatum.) 

 On all our heaths, moors, and mosses, in abundance. Carrington 

 Moss, approached from Sinderland, and thus viewed as a gentle incline 

 upwards, seems, when it is in fruit, as if covered with snow. Fl. 

 March, April. Tassels in May and June. 



Curtis, ii. 237 ; E. B. xiii. 873. 



13. Many-headed Cotton-grass — [Erldphorum polystdchyon.) 

 With the preceding, and equally abundant. Fl. April. Tassels 

 end of May and beginning of June. 



Curtis, ii. 220 ; E. B. viii. 563 ; also viii. 5(14 (as E. angustifolium). 



When in fruit, there is scarcely anything in our indigenous Flora of raoie 

 charming beauty. (See " Walks and Wild-fiowers," chap, v.) Botanists formerly 

 made two species of it, the narrow-leaved and the broad-leaved. 



14. Dkecious Carex — (Carez dioica) 

 Marshy and bogf)fy places, rare. Knutsford Moor. (Mr. Holland.) 

 Plentiful in the boggy parts of Hale Moss. Top of Wcrncth Lowe, 

 tolerably plentiful. Fl. May, June. 



K. B. viii. 54:3. 



