CL. XXI.] MONCECIA TETRANDRIA. 357 



scales awned ; fruit tumid, hairy, with, a deeply cleft beak ; straw 

 rough-edged. Straw two feet high, the whole plant covered with 

 fine soft hairs. Perennial : flowers in May and June : grows in wet 

 pastures and woods : common. Eng. Bot. vol. x. pi. 685. Eng. 

 Fl. vol. iv. p. 125. 1344. 



61. C.filiformis. Slender-leaved Carex. Sheaths scarcely any ; 

 fertile catkins egg-shaped ; fruit egg-shaped, hairy, the beak deeply 



cleft ; leaves linear, channelled, smooth. Root creeping : stem 



erect, two feet high, round, or triangular : leaves erect, rough on 

 the edges. Perennial: flowers in June: grows in wet meadows 

 and bogs : rare. Eng. Bot. vol. xiii. pi. 904. Eng. Fl. vol. iv. p. 128. 



1345. 

 6. ELYNA. ELYNA. 



Barren Flower. Calyx the inner scales of a catkin, each 

 oblong, one-flowered, permanent, sometimes wanting. Corolla 

 none. Filaments three, hair-like, erect, longer than the calyx ; 

 anthers linear, erect, two-celled. 



Fertile Flower. Calyx the outer scales of the same catkin, 

 rather larger, involute, sheathing, oblong, one-flowered, per- 

 manent. Corolla none. Germen superior, three-cornered. 

 Style one, short, cylindrical ; stigmas three, tapering, spread- 

 ing, downy. Seed one, loosely covered by the permanent scale, 

 three-cornered, pointed, hard. Name from elyo, to involve. 



425. 



1. E. caricina. Compound'headed Elyna. Catkins crowded, al- 

 ternate. Roots fibrous : stems sheathed at the base with the old 



leaves, erect, striated, from three to five inches high, rough- edged 

 at the top : leaves radical, linear, acute, channelled, rough-edged : 

 catkins four or five, alternate, brown, crowded with an egg- shaped, 

 erect spike. Perennial : flowers in August : grows in muddy 

 places on mountains in the north of England : rare. Eng. Bot. 

 vol. xx. pi. 1410. Eng. Fl. vol. iv. p. 129. 1346. 



TETRANDRIA. 



7. LITTORE'LLA. SHORE-WEED. 



Barren Flowers. Calyx of four egg-shaped, acute, erect 

 leaves. Corolla of one petal, tubular, with the limb deeply 

 divided into four equal, egg-shaped, acute segments. Fila- 

 ments hair-like, very long ; anthers heart-shaped, two-celled. 



Fertile Flowers. Calyx none. Corolla of one petal, mem- 

 branous, permanent, deeply divided into four unequal, acute 

 segments. Germen superior, oblong, very small. Style thread- 

 shaped, very long, erect; stigma simple, acute. Nut oval, 

 one- celled, not opening. Seed solitary. Named from littus, 

 the shore. 426. 



1. L.lacustris. Plantain Shore-weed. Root fibrous: stem none: 



leaves linear, fleshy, semi-cylindrical, two or three inches long. 

 Perennial : flowers in June : grows about the edges of lakes and 

 pools: frequent. Eng. Bot. vol. vii. pi. 468. Eng. Fl. vol. iv. p. 

 130. 1347. 



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