'3()4 96. CYPERACE.E. 



5 E. gracile (Koch) ; st. subtriquetrous, peduncles downy, I. 

 narrowly linear triquetrous, nut oblong-linear triquetrous. 

 E, B. S. 2886. R. viii. 290. E. triquetrum Hoppe, St. 10. 2. 

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

 downy not scabrous stalks. Gl. with many ribs. Bristles about 

 twice as long as the spike. Bogs. Halnaby, Yorkshire. White- 

 moor Pond, Guildford. P. VI. VII. E. 



Tribe III. Elynece. 



9. KOBRESIA mild. 



'l. K. caricjna (Willd.). E.B.14W. Sch1c.Hrr.l6l. R.vm. 

 193. St. erect, 612 in. high. L. slender, falling short of the 

 stem. Spikes 4 5, aggregated at the summit of the stem, 

 6 8-flowered. There is an abortive stam. (?) at the base of the 

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

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

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



Tribe IV. Caricea. 

 10. CAREX Linn. 1 



i. Monostachyce. Spike simple, solitary. 

 * Dioecious. Stigmas 2. 



1. C. dioica (L.); fertile sp'ike ovate dense, fr. ascending 

 ovate many-veined angles rough near the top, nut roundish 

 oval, terete st. and 1. roughish, stoloniferous. E. B. 543. Schk. 

 A. 1. H. a. 1. R. 194. About 6 in. high. Sometimes the 

 barren spike has fruits at its base. Spongy bogs. P. V. VI. 



2. C. Davalliana (Sra.); fr. deflexed ovate-lanceolate angles 

 rough near the top, nut " linear-oblong," st. and margins of 

 the 1. rough, ceespitose. E. B. 2123. R. 194. About 6 in. 

 high. Lansdown near Bath : now lost by drainage. P. VI. E. 



1 In the following descriptions fruit means the persistent bottle- 

 shaped perigone, 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 Schkuhr's Riedgraser ; H. to Hoppe's Caricol. 

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

 Cent. viii. See also for excellent Monographs Andersson's PI. Scand., 

 and Lang in Linnaa, xxiv. 481. 



