454 97. CYPEKACE^:. 



middle into a triangular point, nut pyriform triquetrous. R. 

 viii. 292. JB. pubescent Sm., E. B. S. 2633. E. polystachion 

 E. B. 563. A slender plant, 1218 in. high. L. about 2 lines 

 broad; triquetrous point short. Several of the elegant spikes 

 upon longish stalks which are asperous. Bristles 2 or 3 times 

 as long as the spikes. Bogs, rather rare. P. V. VI. E. S. I. 



5. E. grac'ile (Koch) ; st. sub triquetrous, peduncles downy, I. 

 narrowly linear triquetrous, nut oblong-linear triquetrous. 

 E. B. S. 288d. R. vii. 290. E. triquetrum Hoppe, St. 10. 2. 

 A tall slender plant. Spikes about 4, most of them on downy 

 not asperous stalks. Gl. with many ribs. Bristles about twice 

 as long as the spike. Bogs. Dorset. Hants. Surrey. Yorks. 

 P. VI. VII. E. 



Tribe III. Elynea. 



9. KOBRE'SIA Willd. 



1. K. caricina( Willd.). E.B. 1410. Schk. Rrr. 161. E. viii. 

 193. St. erect, 6 12 in. high. L. slender, falling short of the 

 stem. Spikes 4 5. collected at the top of the stem, 6 8- 

 flowered. There is an abortive stain. (?) at the base of the 

 nut ; but some authors, considering each fl. a separate spike, 

 think that this represents a second flower. Moors. Yorkshire. 

 Durham. Perthshire. P. VII. E. S. 



Tribe IV. Carice*. 



10. CA'JREX Linn. 1 



i. Monostachyce. Spike simple, solitary, terminal. (Sp. 1 5.) 

 * Dioecious or monoecious ivith malefl. at the top. Stigmas 2. 



1. C. dio'ica (L.) ; usually dioecious, fertile spike ovate dense, 

 fr. ascending ovate many- veined angles rough near the top, nut 



1 In the following descriptions, fruit means the persistent bottle- 

 shaped perianth, including the ripe nut or true capsule. The glume is 

 always taken from the fertile spike unless it is otherwise stated. Schk. 

 refers to the plates of SchTcuhr's Riedgrdser ; H. to Hoppe' s Caricol. 

 Germ, in Sturm Deutschl. Flora ; R. to Reichenbach Ic. Fl. Germ, Cent. 

 vii. ; S. to Boott's Illust. of Carex. See also Andersson's PI. Scand., 

 and Lang in Linncea, xxiv. 481 ; and for form, &c., of the nuts Des 

 Moulins Cat. Dordogne, Suppl. Final. [See Mr. A. Bennett's papers in 

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