354 MONCECIA TRIANDRIA. [CL. XXI. 



kins pale-green. Perennial: flowers in June : grows in wet mea- 

 dows and marshy places : frequent. Eng. Bot. vol. xxxi. pi. 2185. 

 Eng. Fl. vol. iv. p. 105. 1321. 



38. C. punctdta, Dotted-fruited Car ex. Fertile catkins three, 

 rarely four, cylindrical, erect ; fruit egg-shaped, swelled, glabrous, 

 dotted, of a tight-green colour, with a linear beak with two teeth. 



Stem from twelve to eighteen inches high, erect, and smaller 



than the next. Perennial : flowers in June : found in one or two 

 places in North Wales. Brit. Fl. 4th ed. p. 338. 1322. 



39. C.fldva. Yellow Carex. Sheaths short, nearly as long as the 

 flower-stalks; fertile catkins roundish, egg-shaped; fruit three- 

 cornered, smooth, with a long curved beak, notched at the end. 



Stem about a foot high, nearly smooth, catkins yellowish. 



Perennial : flowers in May and June : grows in bogs and wet mea- 

 dows : common. Eng. Bot. vol. xviii. pi. 1294. Eng. Fl. vol. iv. p. 

 106. 1323. 



40. C.fulva. Tawny Carex. Sheaths elongated, shorter than 

 the flower- stalks ; fertile catkins egg-shaped, erect; scales point- 

 less ; fruit egg-shaped, three-cornered, smooth, with a strait, rough- 

 edged, clelt beak. Straw twelve or fifteen inches high, three- 

 cornered, acute and rough above. Perennial: flowers in June and. 

 July: grows in boggy places. Eng. Bot. vol. xviii. pi. 1295. Eng. 

 Fl. vol. iv. p. 107. A variety of this plant, with three fertile 

 spikes on longer stalks, and the beak of the fruit smoother, with a 

 more distinct membranous orifice, is the C. speirostdchya, Dense 

 short-spiked Carex. Eng. Bot. Suppl. pi. 2770. Eng. Fl. vol. iv. 

 p. 98. 1324. 



41. C. extensa. Long-bracteated Carex. Sheaths and flower- 

 stalks very short ; bracteas very long and spreading ; fertile catkins 

 oblong, near to each other; fruit egg-shaped, three-cornered, with 



a short, smooth, cleft beak ; straw very smooth. About a foot 



high : leaves very long, narrow, recurved. Perennial : flowers in 

 June : grows in marshes on the sea- coast : rare. Eng. Bot. vol. 

 xii. pi. 833. Eng. Fl. vol. iv. p. 108. 1325. 



42. C. distans. Loose Carex. Sheaths elongated, nearly as long 

 as the flower-stalks ; fertile catkins two or three, oblong, widely 



distant ; scales pointed ; straw smooth. Twelve or eighteen 



inches high : leaves lance-shaped, flat. Perennial : flowers in June : 

 grows in marshes and wet meadows. Eng. Bot. vol. xviii. pi. 1234. 

 Eng. Fl. vol. iv. p. 109. 1326. 



43. C. binervis. Green-ribbed Carex. Sheaths elongated, shorter 

 than the flow r er-stalks ; fertile catkins cylindrical, distant, partly 

 compound ; scales pointed ; straw smooth ; fruit egg-shaped, with 



a central keel and two distant marginal ribs. About two feet 



high : leaves lance-shaped, flat. Perennial : flowers in June : 

 grows on dry heaths : frequent. Eng. Bot. vol. xviii. pi. 1235. 

 Eng. Fl. vol. iv. p. 110. 1327. 



44. C. prce'cox. Early Carex. Sheaths very short, about as long 

 as the flower -stalks ; catkins elliptical, rather close ; scales of the 

 fertile ones pointed ; fruit inversely egg-shaped, downy, with an 



abrupt, entire point. Straws from three inches to nearly a foot 



high, three-cornered, smooth : bracteas short, very narrow. Pe- 

 rennial : flowers in April : grows on heaths and in dry pastures : 

 common. Eng. Bot. vol. xvi. pi. 1099. Eng. FL vol. iv. p. 1 1 1. 1328. 



