MONu;r;jA-'j JUANUKIA. 



ft recurs, sheath* ihort ; fertile catkins 2 or 3, cylindri. 

 cal, dense, drooping, on very long recurved stalks ; fruit ellipti- 

 cal, triangular, rougtosk, obtuse, slightly notched. (Stem from 

 8 to 1 8 inches bigfa, smooth.) 



Moist meadowy and wet heathy ground, common. 

 and conspicuous from the glaucous green of its herbage, 

 which, as ttr J. Smith well observ tnblef 



.liage of pink* or earnatio 



21. C.'riyida, stigmas 2; sheaths none; fertile catkins ovate, 

 the lowermost stalked ; bracteas lanceolate, recurved, as well as 

 the leaves ; fruit triangular, somewhat compressed, with a short 

 abrupt beak. 



Summit of Cheviot, plentiful, Winch. June, July. 



2 f . stigmas 2 ; sheaths none; fertile catkins cy- 



Ause, erect, the lowermost rarely stalked ; leaves and 

 aurick :jnent, elliptical, fiat. 



many-ribbed, with a very short abrupt beak. 

 Jl'iij. Marches eovnuon. June. '4 



Steins from G to 12 inches high, triangular. Catkins scarce. 

 ly an inch long. Our specimens were submitted to Mr 

 NVjjs'CH, and they certainly belong to this species, yet in 

 one IffftffMf only have we seen it growing in a distinct 

 'jespitov.- MfJUier. J n jMrneral, it has as little of that cha- 

 racter as any other species, so that the name is apt to oc- 

 casion doubt in the mind of the student. SMJ'JJ 

 the fertile catkins are almost invariably 3, but in many of 

 are 2 only, sometimes 1 ; and thei e 

 are fcaquently 2 barren catkins, which, according to 

 SMJ v :,re occurr< I .en, besides 



the 2 barren catkins, there is another composed of both 

 fertile and barren flowers. 



jtofron 0nd fertile florets in sejjarate within*. Barren catkins 

 2 or 



&. ( :gmas2; catkins cylindrical, slender, drooping 



in flower, afterwards erect ; fruit elliptical, with a blunt undi- 

 '_ high, triangular, rough ; bracteas 

 without sheaths, leafy, long; catkins H or 2 inches long.) 



lint,. Si''es of the Tweed from West Ord to the Chain- 



