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green, shorter than the stem. It is found in moist meadows, 

 flowering in May and June. 



36. Carex Folliculata. Spikes terminal, peduncled, male 

 and female ; capsules subulated, the length of the spike. 

 Culm three-cornered, two feet high, clothed with very narrow 

 leaves. Found in Canada by Kalm. 



3*. Carex Pseudo-Cyperus ; Bastard Sedge. Sheaths 

 scarcely any ; female spikes cylindrical, peduncled, pendu- 

 lous ; capsules awned and beaked, somewhat divaricate. 

 Uractes almost setaceous. Found flowering in June, upon 

 the sides of ditches and moist woods. 



38. Carex Caespitosa ; Turfy Sedge. Styles two ; , spikes 

 subsessile, subcylindric, obtuse ; leaves erect, softish. It is 

 easily distinguished from the other species by its long narrow 

 leaves, of a pleasant green, in fuller tufts than in any of the 

 rest ; by two female spikes, ere-V and blackish. Capsules 

 yellowish, sessile, erect, obtuse, ovate, imbricate ; culm 

 naked, exactly three-cornered ; under the lower spike a 

 small leaf longer than the spike ; that under the other is 

 shorter. It fills up bogs by its large tufts or hassocks, and 

 will speedily do this, as cattle will not eat it. Grows in 

 marshes and moist woods, flowering in May. 



39. Carex Distans ; Distant-flowering Sedge. Spikes 

 very remote ; bracte sheathing the peduncle ; capsule angu- 

 lar, mucronate. Capsules acuminate; scales of the calix 

 sharp ; stems nine to eighteen inches high, sometimes two 

 feet, or even a yard, leafy, very obscurely three-cornered. 

 It is found in marshes, especially salt-marshes, and usually 

 flowers in May and June. 



40. Carex Japonica. Spikes monoecous, peduncled, erect ; 

 females peduncled, ovate ; male terminal, linear. Culm 

 leafy, three-cornered, erect, weak, smooth, a span high. 

 Native of the island of Niphon, flowering in June. 



t ** Spikes Male and Female, distinct ; Males several. 



41. Carex Acuta ; Sharp Sedge. Male spikes many ; fe- 

 male subsessile ; capsules bluntish. Style bifid, hispid, white, 

 shrivelling; scales ovate, brown,with alongitudinal green line. 

 It is a very variable plant, an inch high, in dry meadows ; 

 but in watery situations often rises to the height of three feet. 



42. Carex Vesicaria ; Bladder Sedge. Male spikes linear ; 

 female spikes oblong, spreading ; capsule inflated, oblong, 

 acuminate-beaked, spreading. Stem three-cornered, leafy, 

 finely serrate at the edges ; leaves two lines broad, finely 

 serrate, bright green. It is found in bogs and marshes, 

 and flowers in May. 



43. Carex Hirta ; Hairy Sedge. Hairy : all the spikes 

 oblong : females remote, sheathed ; capsules hairy. Leaves 

 on the outside, and their sheaths white, villose ; capsules vil- 

 lose, inflated, two-horned at the end ; male spikes usually 

 three ; female very remote, erect, peduncled. It flowers in 

 May and June, and grows in moist meadows, watery places, 

 and marshes. 



44. Carex Pumila; Dicarf Sedge. Male spikes two, ter- 

 minal, sessile ; females two, peduncled, oblong, erect. Culm 

 very short, indeed scarcely any ; leaves linear, attenuated, 

 convolute, smooth. 



45. Carex Pauciflora ; Few-flowering Sedge. Spike simple, 

 androgynous ; female flowers two or three, remotish, 

 spreading; one male flower, sometimes two in the upper p;irt. 

 Stem four inches high, obscurely three-cornered, smooth, 

 striated, with two smooth grass-like leaves, the uppermost 

 longest, but generally shorter than the stem. Native of 

 Scotland, and of the coast of Labradore, in a boggy soil. 



46. Carex TIamata ; Hn'ikcd Srdge. .Spike simple, andro- 

 gynous, linear; male at top ; females awned ; awns hooked 

 at the tip and equal. Native of Jamaica and New Zealand. 



47. Carex Rupestris. Spike simple, androgynous, oblong, 

 with male flowers in the upper part; female glumes awned. 

 Culms scarcely four inches high, naked, three-cornered, 

 twice as high as the leaves; spike an inch high; male 

 glumes subovate, not awned ; females broad, ovate, acute, 

 bay-coloured, with a paler edge, and a broadish nerve 

 ending in an awn. 



48. Carex Bellardi. Spike one, androgynous, strigose ; 

 culm round ; leaves capillary. From a brown fibrous root 

 arises a tuft of many culms ; leaves convoluted, striated, 

 somewhat curved : culm near a span high, striated. 



49. Carex Curvula. Spike one; glumes awned; culm and 

 leaves hard, and a little curved. This species forms little 

 tufts, composed of hard round leaves, somewhat yellowish, 

 resembling those of rushes, differing little from the culm, 

 and about the same length, from three to six inches. 

 Native of the Alps, of Switzerland, Dauphiny, and Pied- 

 mont. 



50. Carex Foetida ; Stinking Sedge. Spike conglomerate, 

 brown, stinking. This plant is feetid, both in a recent and 

 in a dried state ; culm naked, three-cornered, edges rough ; 

 spike one only, blackish, formed of very many small ones, 

 irregularly conic, obtusely five-cornered, very broad. - 

 Native of Switzerland, Dauphiny, and Piedmont. 



51. Carex Psyllophora. Spike simple, androgynous ; male 

 at top ; capsules reflex ; seeds cylindric. Native of Sweden, 

 and Germany. 



52. Carex Leucoglochin. Spike simple, androgynous, 

 male at top ; capsules reflex ; seeds three-sided. Native of 

 Sweden and Germany. 



53. Carex Uncinata. Spike simple, androgynous, linear, 

 male at top ; awns of the females hooked ; males awnless. 

 This is the handsomest species of the genus ; it is a native 

 of New Zealand. 



54. Carex Cyperoides. Head terminating, roundish ; 

 flowers quite simple, subulate ; involucre, long. Grows in 

 various parts of Bohemia and Siberia. 



55. Carex Disticha ; Soft Sedge. Spike oblong, obtuse; 

 spikelets very many ; the lowest and end one females ; the 

 middle ones male ; culm upright ; style divided to the base. 

 It is found in marshes, flowering in June. 



56. Carex Divisa. Spike ovate, subdecompound, with an 

 upright leaflet ; spikelets rather remote ; capsules pressed 

 close ; root creeping. Leaves narrow, sometimes longer 

 than the culm, which is from eighteen inches to two feet 

 in height, and three-cornered. It grows in salt marshes, 

 where it flowers in May and June. 



57. Carex Incurva. Spike conic ; spikelets several, 

 heaped, sessile ; involucre none ; culm incurved. Stems 

 three or four inches high, obscurely three-cornered, smooth, 

 and curved in the arc of a circle. Native of Scotland, in 

 deep loose sand ; also of Denmark and Piedmont. 



58. Carex Divulsa. Spike decompound, elongated, some- 

 what branched at the base ; the lower spikelets remote, the 

 upper ones contiguous ; capsules somewhat erect. Leaves 

 dark green, narrowish, sharp -on the keel and along the 

 edi^e, longer than the culm, which is from a foot to 

 eighteen inches in height, weak, somewhat reclining, three- 

 cornered, the corners acute and roughish. Found in moist 

 woods, flowering from May to July. 



59. Carex Tripartita. Spike terminal, three-parted. Ra- 

 dical leaves shorter than the culm, a line or more in 

 breadth ; culm naked in the upper part, three-cornered, six 

 inches high ; neither that nor tlic leaves are rough. 



i;<>. Ciirex Bipartite. Spikes two, terminal, the upper 

 compound ; culm round, naked. Culms straight, twice ai 



