264 MONCEC. TRIAND. 



bifid, bracteas very narrow reaching beyond the culm. 



Liglitf. p. 549. E. B. t. 832. 

 HAB. Woods and shady moist places. Fl. June. }/ . 

 One foot or more high. Leaves very slender. Spikelets small, ovate, 



very distant. 



**"* Sterile and fertile flowers upon distinct spikes on the same culm. 



f Sterile spikes mostly single. 



+- Stigmas 3. 



16. C. pendula (great pendulous Car ex) , sheaths elongated 

 nearly equal to the flowerstalks, fertile spikes cylindrical very 

 long and drooping, fruit ovate shortly acuminate bifid at the 

 extremity closely imbricated, leaves broad. Light f. ft. 564. 

 E.B.t.'23\5. 



HAB. Shady moist places, but not common. Breadalbane, Dr. Stuart. 



Rosslyn woods and Duke of Buccleugh's park at Dalkeith, Maugh. 



Woods, Bothwell ; and a little to the S. of Blantyre Priory, Hopk. 



Fl. June, July. 7/ . 

 Culms 3 4 feet high. This may always be distinguished by its long, 



pendulous, cylindrical spikes. 



17. C. strigosa (loose pendulous Carex), sheaths elongated 

 equal to the flowerstalks, fertile spikes slender filiform nearly 

 erect, fruit ovato-lanceolate nerved slightly recurved loosely 

 imbricated, leaves rather broad. E. B. t. 994. 



HAD. Arnistone woods, Edinb., Maugh. Fl. May, June. I/ . 

 One foot and a half to two feet high. Cal. glumes a little shorter than 

 the fruit. 



18. C. sylvatica (pendulous Wood Carex), sheaths half as long 

 as the flowerstalks, fertile spikes filiform rather slender slightly 

 drooping, fruit broadly ovate much acuminated cleft at the 

 point, leaves narrow. Liglitf. p. 562. E. B. /.995. 



HAB. Woods, not unfrequent. FL June. I/ . 



In general habit much like the last, but the spikes are shorter and 

 broader, and the fruit very different, being glabrous, and so acu- 

 minated as to terminate in a long beak. The cal. glumes also are 

 longer in proportion. Linnaeus tells us that this plant is used by 

 the Laplanders, when carded and dressed, as a wadding to protect 

 them from the cold. 



19. C. depauperata (starved Wood Carex), sheaths much shorter 

 than the flowerstalks, fertile spikes erect remote very few-flow- 

 ered, fruit large nearly globose inflated terminating in a long 

 beak bifid at the point. E. B. t. 1098. 



HAB. Woods near Forfar, rare, G. Don. Fl. June. I/ . 



One or one foot and a half high. Spikes very distant j their few 



Jlowcrs, and large inflated beaked fruit, decidedly marking the 



species. 



20. C. Mlelichoferi (loose-spiked Rock Carex), sheaths about 

 half as long us the flowerstalks, fertile spikes 1 3 somewhat 



