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erect catkins ; and the Great Panicled Sedge (C. paniculata), 

 is a splendid ornament of ponds and ditches, growing three 

 feet high, with broad handsome leaves and very large catkins. 

 All these species we have from Yorkshire ; they agree in the 

 character of the mingled catkins. There are besides several 

 similar species too numerous to describe singly. Of those with 

 the male and female flowers on different catkins w'e have a 

 great variety. 



Fanny has the Dwarf Silvery Sedge (C. clandestina), measur- 

 ing only four inches in height, from St. Vincent's Eocks, 

 Bristol ; and Edward has the Great Pendulous Sedge (C. pen- 

 dula), from Hawkhurst. This is a noble plant, sometimes 

 attaining the height of six feet, and with numerous stalked 

 drooping catkins, each two or three inches long. 



The Loose Pendulous Sedge (C. strigosa), is also his trophy 

 from the same neighbourhood ; it is shorter and more slender 

 than the last-named, but resembles it in habit. 



The Pendulous Wood Sedge (C. sylvatica, fig. 8), I have 

 from Easby Woods ; its catkins are slender, loose, and drooping, 

 and its leaves a pale yellow-green. The plant is seldom above 

 a foot high. 



The Bastard Cyperus Sedge (C. pseudo-cyperus, Plate XVII., 

 ng. 9), is also a Kentish plant ; it is large and handsome, with 

 drooping catkins. In size and habit it resembles the Great 

 Pendulous Sedge, but the catkins are much thicker and shorter. 



The Pale Sedge (C. pallescens), is very small and slender, 

 but upright. Its oval catkins are few, and the lower ones 

 pendulous. My specimen is from Wicliffe, near Ripon. 



The Tawny Sedge (C. fiilva), has rust-coloured catkins, and 

 a rough stem. The Green-ribbed Sedge resembles it, and has 

 a very dark catkin, drooping and elegant; and the Vernal 

 Sedge (C. prsecox), is a bright little plant, a few inches high, 

 with upright spikes. These three flourish in the vicinity of 

 Sichmond. 



The Glaucous Sedge f. recurva), is so named from the 



