200 MQNCECIATRIANDRIA. 



10, C. paniculata, spike thrice compound, loosely panicled, in- 

 terrupted, acute ; fruit spreading, with an abrupt serrated beak ; 

 stem sharply triangular, with flat interstices (2 or 3 feet high.) 



Hob. Spongy bogs, forming large dense tufts. Haiden 

 and Allerton-mill deans. June. I/. 



* * * Barren and fertile florets in separate catkins ; the barren cat- 

 kin solitary, very rarely more than one. Bracteas leafy,) often 

 sheathing. 



11. C.pendula, sheaths nearly as long as the flower- stalks; fer- 

 tile catkins very long, cylindrical, drooping ; fruit densely 

 crowded, ovate, beaked. (Stem 4 feet high, triangular ; leaves 

 large and harsh.) 



I-Iab. " Sea-banks below Lamberton Shields, plentiful," 

 Thomp. June. If. 



1 2. C. sylvatica, sheaths not half the length of the flower-stalks ; 

 catkins slender, rather loose, drooping ; fruit ovate, triangular, 

 beaked, without ribs. (Bright green ; stem 12-18 inches high, 

 slender, smooth, triangular.) 



Hab. Wooded banks of Woojer Water, below LangleyfonJ. 

 June. 1L 



LINNAEUS, when speaking of the m^ans adopted by the Lap- 

 landers to protect themselves from arctic cold, says, 

 l ' Calceis indunt gramen hocce, tempore seslivo dissectum, 

 exsiccatum, brevi ante pectine ferreo vel corneo divi- 

 sum, conquassatum inter manus, ita ut non modo tibias, 

 sed et plantas pedum undique superius et inferius tegat, 

 quo gramme velati liberi omnino sunt ab omni frigoris sse- 

 vitia : Hocce etiam gramine chirothecas suas hirsutas re- 

 plent, ne manus laedantur, sicque perdurat gens hsec gelu 

 indurata. Uti gramen hoc hyeme frigus abigit, sic etiam 

 restate sudorem pedum areet, simulque ne pedes laedantur 

 allisi ad lapides, &c. (calcei enim tenuissimi, non e corio 

 8ed pellibus conficiuntur) in itinere vetat." 



13. C. limosa^ sheaths scarcely any ; fertile catkins ovate, 

 dense, drooping, many-flowered ; fruit elliptical, compressed, rib- 

 bed, smooth-edged, without a beak ; root creeping. (Stem 8-10 

 inches high. Leaves linear, narrow.) 



Ilab. Bogs very rare. Haiden dean, sparingly. July. l 



