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332 MONOECIA — TRIANDRIA, [Curez. 



(3 — 4) sterile at their base roundish distant, fruit ovate nnicli 

 attenuated plano-convex acute angular spreading rough at the 

 margin. E. Bot. t. 806. 



Marshes and heatliy places. Fl. May, June. If. — A span to a foot 

 higli. Leaves nearly as lonjj as the stem. Distinguished by its few, 

 much beaked cajjsules, placed in small distant roundish spikelets, and 

 which spread, when ripe, in every direction. 



8. C. leporina, L. {^Hare s-foot Carex) ; spikelets 3 rarely 4 

 ovate contiguous, fruit elliptic rostrate plano-convex smooth- 

 nerved with a scariose bidentate finally entire orifice scarcely 

 longer than the ovate obtuse scales which are scariose at the 

 margins. Schkh. F. F. F. F. f. 129.— C. Lachenalii, Schkh. Y. 

 f. 79. — C. lagojiina, Wuhl, — C. approximata, Hoppe, Gaud, (iiot 



Al/ion.). — C. parvijlora. Gaud, (jiot Host). 



Rocks on the west side of Loch-na-gar. Aug. 1836. Mr Dickie. 

 Fl. July. If.. — Root fibrous. Stem 4 — 8 inches high, smooth, rarely 

 rough below the spike. Leaves a line broad, shorter than the stem. 

 Spikelets brown. Bractcas broad, ovate, obtuse, the lowest aristate, 

 rarely foliaceous and larger than the spikelet. Seed elliptic, plano-con- 

 vex, pale yellow. (Boott.) 



9. C. ovdlis, Gooden. (oval-spiked Carex); spikelets about 6 

 sterile at the base oval approximate, fruit as long as the calyx 

 ovato-acuminate compressed plano-convex striated with a broad 

 membranous margin rough at the edge, the beak bifid. E. Bot. 

 t. 806. 



Bogs and marshy places. Fl. June. If. — Stems 1 foot high, triangular. 

 Spikelets brownish-green, shining. Cahjx-scales concealing \}aQ fruit. 

 Bracteas small, uppermost ones resembling the calyx-scales. 



10. C. ciirta, Gooden. (iv/ii(e Carex); spikelets sterile at their 

 base about 5 rather distant elliptical, bracteas very minute (ex- 

 cept the lower one), fruit broadly ovate acute plane above 

 slightly convex beneath subobtusangular faintly striated as long 

 as the scales. F. Bot. t. 1386. 



Bogs, in several places, not very general. Fl. June. If. — Distin- 

 guished by its pale elliptical spikelets, and imbricated, compressed, al- 

 most elliptical ^nnV. 



11. C elongdta, L. (elongated Carex); spikelets numerous ob- 

 long lax rather distant sterile with minute pointed bracteas, 

 fruit plano-convex oblongo-acuminate scarcely bifid at the point 

 patent longer than the scales. Host, Gram. Austr. v. ii. t. 79, 

 (excellent), E. Bot. t. 19^0. 



Marshes, very rare. Aldwark, Yorkshire, Mr Deakin. Pit side at 

 Over, Cheshire, 1827. Shropshire, J. E. Bowman. Fl. June, If. — 

 Bouts tufted. Stems I — l^- foot high, with 3 acute angles, rather 

 rough, as well as the leaves. Spikelets brown. Fruit lax. I am in- 

 debted to Mr Wilson for excellent specimens of this exceedingly rare, 

 yet very distinct Carex. 



12. C. remota, L. (distant-spiked Carex); spikelets several 

 (small) sterile at their base very distant, fruit longer than the 



