IHB SEDGE FAMILY. 457 



39. Geeat Pendulous Wood Sedge — {Carex pendula.) 

 Moist woods and shady places, rather uncommon. Cotterill Clough. 

 Boggart Hole Clough. Marple Wood. Banks of the Tame, near 

 Reddish. Red Brows Wood, near Didsbury. Left bank of the Goyt, 

 below Marple Aqueduct. Abundant in the steep wood by Ashley Mill. 

 Haughton Dale. Fl. May, June. 



Curtis, i. 208 ; E. B. xxxiii. 2315. 



Well marked bj' its long, dense, curved, and pendulous catkins, bearing more 

 fruit than any other British species. 



40. Gbeat Pond Sedge — [Carex Pseudo-cyperus.) 

 Edges of ponds, and in marshy places, common everywhere. 

 Rusholme. Styal. Hale Moss, with the Acorus Calamus, abundant 

 and exceedingly fine. Fl. June. 



E. B. iv. 243. 

 This and the preceding are the two handsomest of our native sedges. The 

 great prickly cyhnders of unripe fruit, pendulous on hair-like stalks often five or 

 six. inches long, form a strikingly beautiful ornament of the pondsides in eai'ly 

 summer. 



41. Glaucous Heath Gab.'e^— [Carex glauca.) 

 Moist meadows and moors, common everywhere. Fl. May, June. 



E. B. xxi. 150G (as Carex recurva). 

 Known immediately by its glaucous foliage, resembling that of a carnation. 



42. Spring Carex — [Carex prcecox.) 



Dry pastures, banks, heaths, and in parks, frequent. Agocroft Park. 

 Dunham Park. Prestwich. Fl. May, June. 



Curtis, iii. 548 ; E. B. xvi. 1090. 



43. Pill Cabex — [Carex pilul'if era.) 



Moors and on heathy hill-sides, not rare. In the neighbourhood of 

 Mere Clough, and elsewhere at Prestwich. Kersall Moor. Agecroft. 

 Baguley. Alderley. Hale Moss. Mobberley. Fl. May, June. 



E. B. xiii. 885. 



44. Thread-leaved Carex — [Carex JiUformis.) 

 Brookhouse Moss, near Congleton, abundant, growing with the 



C. limosa. Fl. May. 



E. B. xiii. 1)04. 



