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OR, BOTANICAL DICTIONARY. 



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high as the leaves, striated ; leaves smooth, a little convo- 

 luted, striated, acute, and almost pungent. 



61. Carex Nigra. Spikes androgynous, erect, sessile, tern, 

 terminal, black ; culm three-cornered, leafy. Leaves shorter 

 than the culm, which is from a finger's length to a foot high, 

 and striated ; glumes ovate acute, black, with a whitish edge. 



61. Carex Bicolor. Spikes androgynous, sessile, tern, 

 terminal ; capsules longer than the glumes ; culm round, 

 naked, scarcely more than a finger's breadth in height. 



63. Carex Stellulata. Spikelets subtern, remote ; cap- 

 sules diverging, acute ; mouth entire. Leaves pale green, 

 narrow, rough at the edges and keel, especially towartls the 

 tip. Grows in marshes, flowering in May and June. 



<>4. C'arex Curta. Spikelets six or more, ovate, remotish, 

 naked ; scales ovate, sharpish, shorter than the capsule. 

 Leaves of a pale subglaucous colour, rough along the edges 

 and keel, upright, narrow. It inhabits marshes and watery 

 places, but is not very common, and flowers in June. 



65. Carex Ovalis. Spikelets about six, oval, approxi- 

 mating, alternate ; scales lanceolate, equalling the capsule. 

 Leaves dark green, roughish along the edges and keel, 

 narrow, nearly equalling the stem, which is upright, a foot 

 high, triangular, with the angles sharp and roughish. It is 

 found in marshes and moist meadows ; flowering in June. 



66. Carex Teretiuscula. Spike superdecompound, con- 

 tracted, branched, sharpish ; spikelets glomerate, male at top ; 

 capsules spreading ; culm roundish. Leaves green, upright, 

 stiffish, sheathing near half the culm, at the base convex 

 without, channelled within, rough along the edges and keel, 

 longer than the culm when in flower ; the upper leaf longer 

 than the rest. Found in marshes near the city of Norwich. 



67- Carex Chordorhiza. Spike compound ; spikelets an- 

 drogynous, approximating, male at top ; capsules com- 

 pressed ; root creeping, filiform. Native of Sweden. 



68. Carex Heleonastes. Spike compound ; spikelets 

 androgynous, approximating, female at top ; capsules im- 

 bricated, with the sides quite entire. Native of Sweden. 



69. Carex Prostrata. Bractes membranaceous, almost i -if- 

 less, sheathing ; female spikes remote, scarcely surpassing 

 the sheath ; the calix very large ; stem, when old, prostrate. 

 Leaves slender, three or four times as long as the culm, 

 channelled, at the edges and keel, towards the tip rough. 

 Observed upon St. Vincent's rocks near Bristol. It flowers 

 in the very beginning of April. 



70. Carex Conglobata. Spikes sessile, approximating, 

 few-flowered ; capsules ovate, hirsute. Leaves in tufts, resem- 

 bling those of pinks, repand, marked with a line, rougli about 

 the edge, a line in breadth and more ; culm six inches high. 



71. Carex Mucronata. Spikes sessile, approximating, 

 very short ; glumes lanceolate, mucronate. Leaves rush- 

 like ; culms a foot high, naked at the top. 



72. Carex Alba. Spikes peduncled, white ; sheaths long, 

 obtuse ; lilaiuenta and styles long, white. Culm round, 

 slender with three white leafy sheaths ; styles long, trifid. 



73. Carex Fusca. Female spikes three, erect ; capsules 

 ovate, shortly mucronate, petioled, sitting on the leaf. Culm 

 sheathed, six inches high ; capsules pale ; leaves long, less 

 than a line wide, nearly the length of the stem, and rough. 



74. Carex Trigonia. Male spike peduncled ; females ses- 

 sile, remote, three-cornered. Culms leafy, a foot high and 

 more, three-cornered, striated, smooth ; leaves linear, 

 striated, dark green, shorter than the culm. 



75. Carex Foliosa. Female spikes sessile, the lowest 

 peduncled ; glumes very narrow. A very distinct species. 

 Culm a foot high, three-cornered ; capsules slender, with 

 very long points. 



76. Carex Alpestris. The lowest female spike radical ; 

 capsules three-cornered, elongated. Leaves in tufts, firm, 

 keeled, with a nerve standing out, two lines broad, smooth 

 except the end of the nerve,; culms naked, from three to 

 nine inches in height. 



77- Carex Obesa. Female spikes sessile, tern ; capsules 

 ovate, three-cornered ; leaves short, not above a line in 

 breadth, rough. Culms four inches high, naked. 



78. Carex Ferruginea. Male spike one, acuminate; female 

 spikes two or three, slender, pedicelled ; scales ferruginous ; 

 capsules bifid. Culm half a foot high, pale green ; the leaves 

 are long and hard, but flexible. It forms large tufts on 

 high mountains exposed to the north. 



79. Carex Frigida. Female spikes in threes and fours, 

 distich; capsules long-pointed. Glumes sharply lanceolate, 

 shining bay, with a green or yellowish nerve. 



80. Carex Extensa. Sheaths very short, equalling the 

 peduncle ; the leaflet somewhat reflex ; spikes crowded ; fe- 

 males roundish ; capsules ovate, acute ; root-leaves narrowish, 

 shorter than the culm, (except those which embrace the base 

 of it, which often equal and even surpass it,) roughish along 

 the edges and keel towards the top. Found in open places, 

 as in the marshy ground near Harwich, and on the west side 

 of Braunton Burrows in the north of Devonshire. It is not 

 very common ; and flowers in June. 



81. Carex Fulva. Lowest sheath about half the length of 

 the peduncle, upper one nearly equal to it ; female spikes 

 two, oblong, acute ; capsules acuminate-beaked ; leaves up- 

 right, narrow, rough along the edges and keel, shorter than 

 the culm, which is upright, slender, about a foot in height, 

 three-sided, with the angles acute and rough. Native of 

 Newfoundland and America ; and found at Eaton, near 

 Shrewsbury. It flowers in June and July. 



82. Carex Rigida ; Rigid-leaved Sedge. Two-stiled ^ 

 sheaths none ; spikes oblong, subsessile ; leaves somewhat 

 recurved, rigid ; root thick, creeping very much. Observed 

 on the top of Snowden, and on the summits of the highest 

 mountains in Scotland. 



83. Carex Stricta; Stif-leaved Sedge. Two-styled: 

 sheaths none ; spikes subsessile, cylindric, acute ; male one 

 or two ; leaves upright, stiff. The root creeps very much. 

 It grows in marshes, and flowers in April. Mr. Pitchford 

 observed it near Norwich. 



84. Carex Prfficox ; P'ernal Sedge. Sheaths short, nearly- 

 equalling the peduncles ; spikes approximating ; males sub- 

 clavate ; females ovate ; capsules roundish, pubescent ; leaves 

 dark green, slender, rough along the edges and keel, shorter 

 than the culm, which is upright, from six to twelve inches 

 high, three-sided, with the angles bluntish and smooth. It 

 is a very common plant, growing on most of our heaths, and 

 in meadows ; flowering in April and May. 



85. Carex Depauperata. Sheaths more than half the 

 length of the peduncles ; female spikes remote, few-flowered ; 

 capsules ovate, inflated, acuminate-beaked. Stem upright, 

 leafy, three-cornered, from a foot to eighteen inches high. 

 It flowers in May and June, and was discovered by Dr. 

 Goodenough in Charlton-wood ; and by Mr. Dickson in dry 

 woods, near Godalmin in Surrey. 



86. Carex Elata. Male spikes two, females sessile ; cap- 

 sules ovate, with a very short undivided point. Leaves very 

 long, two or three lines broad, the edges and nerve rough ; 

 culm three-cornered, three feet high. 



87. Carex Pendula ; Pendulous Sedge. Spikes cylindric, 

 very long, pendulous ; capsules ovate, acute, very much 

 crowded ; sheaths long, nearly equal to the peduncles. Leaves 

 half an inch broad, thick, stiff, very dark green, somewhat 



