CL. XXI.] MONffiCIA TETRANDRIA. 357 



awned ; fruit tumid, hairy, with a deeply cleft beak ; straw rough-edged. 



Straw two feet high, the whole plant covered with fine soft hairs. 



Perennial : flowers in May and June : grows in wet pastures and woods : 

 common. Eng. Bot. vol. x. pi. 685. Eng. Ft. vol. iv. p. 125. 1344. 



61. C. jilifffrmis. Slender-leaved Carex. Sheaths scarcely any ; fer- 

 tile catkins egg-shaped ; fruit egg-shaped, hairy, the beak deeply cleft ; 



leaves linear, channelled, smooth. Root creeping: stem erect, two 



feet high, round, or triangular : leaves erect, rough on the edges. Peren- 

 nial : flowers in June : grows in wet meadows and bogs: rare. Eng. 

 Bot. vol. xiii. pi. 904. Eng. Fl. vol. iv. p..l28. 1345. 



6. ELYNA. ELYNA. 



Barren Flower. Calyx the inner scales of a catkin, each oblong, 

 one-flowered, permanent, sometimes wanting. Corolla none. 

 Filaments three, hair-like, erect, longer than the calyx ; anthers 

 linear, erect, two-celled. 



Fertile Flower. Calyx the outer scales of the same catkin, 

 rather larger, involute, sheathing, oblong, one-flowered, permanent. 

 Corolla none. Germen superior, three-cornered. Style one, short, 

 cylindrical ; stigmas three, tapering, spreading, downy. Seed 

 one, loosely covered by the permanent scale, three-cornered, 

 pointed, hard. Name from elyo, to involve. 425. 



1. E. caricina. Compound-headed Eiyna. Catkins crowded, alter- 

 nate. Roots fibrous : stems sheathed at the base with the old 



leaves, erect, striated, from three to five inches high, rough-edged 

 at the top ; leaves radical, linear, acute, channelled, rough-edged : 

 catkins four or five, alternate, brown, crowded with an egg-shaped, 

 erect spike. Perennial : flowers in August : grows in muddy places on 

 mountains in the north of England : rare. Eng. Bot. vol.'xx. pi. 1410. 

 Eng. Fl. vol. iv. p. 129. 1346. 



TETRANDRIA. 

 7. LITTORE'LLA. SHORE-WEED. 



Barren Flowers. Calyx of four egg-shaped, acute, erect leaves. 

 Corolla of one petal, tubular, with the limb deeply divided into 

 four equal, egg-shaped, acute segments. Filaments hair-like, very 

 lone;; anthers heart-shaped, two-celled. 



Fertile Flowers. Calyx none. Corolla of one petal, mem- 

 branous, permanent, deeply divided into four unequal, acute 

 segments. Germen superior, oblong, very small. Style thread- 

 shaped, very long, erect ; stigma simple, acute. Nut oval, one- 

 celled, not opening. Seed solitary. Named from littus, the 

 shore. 



1. L. lacnstris. Plantain Shore-weed. Hoot fibrous: stem none: 



leaves linear, fleshy, semi-cylindrical, two or three inches long. Peren- 

 nial : flowers in June: grows about the edges of lakes and pools : fre- 

 quent. En-. Bot. vol. vii. pi. 468. Eng. FL vol. iv. p. 130. 1347. 



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