Carez.] MONOECIA — triandria. 339 



which are pale ferruginous witli a green nerve. (Booft.) — C. Hel- 

 vetica, Schleieh. — C. distans, /3. Deslongch. Fl. Gall. j). '191. 



Discovered several j-ears ago, hy Daioson Turner, Esq., near Beau- 

 maris, N. Wales, [Herb. Sm. in Mus. of Linn. Soc.) Banks of the 

 Menai, near Bangor. Mr W. Wilson. Fl. June. l^.—Root creep- 

 ing, composed of strong woody fibres. Stetn 12—18 inches high, erect, 

 smooth, leafy at the base. Leaves shorter than the stem. Barren spikes 

 rarely geminate : scales rarely acute or subaristate, the lowest some- 

 times bracteseform. Fertile more or less remote, the two upper subap- 

 proximate, the lowest rarely 3 inches from the middle one. Bracteas 

 with striated sheaths, varying in length. Peduncles rough. Beak 

 about one-third the length of the fruit. Seed triangular, pellucidly 

 punctate like the fruit. — Differs from C. distans in its smaller size, 

 its light green, more ajiproxiniate spikes, its more erect stem, and in its 

 fruit. {Boott.) 



37. C. distans, L. (^loose Carex) ; barren spike solitary with 

 obtuse scales, fertile 2 — 3 remote erect oblong- stalked the bar- 

 ren stalks longer than the sheathing bracteas, scales mucronate, 

 fruit ovate triquetrous equally ribbed smooth or rongh at the 

 upper margins and at the edges of the narrow short bifid beak. 

 {Boott.) E. Bot. t. 1234. 



Muddy marshes near the sea, probably in many places. About 

 Anglesea : with C. binerv., in boggy ground, coast of Kent. Coast 

 near Montrose. Fl. June. If. — 8 inches to 1 or U foot high, slender. 

 Spikes very distantly placed, their rather long peduncles entirely con- 

 cealed by the siieathing bases of the bracteas. Scales of the calyx ra- 

 ther pale brown. Fruit green, inclining to brown when ripe. 



38. C. bi?iervis, Sm. {green-ribbed Carex) ; barren spike soli- 

 tary with obtuse scales, fertile 3 — 3 the upper ones sometimes 

 subapproximate, the lower remote erect cylindrical often elon- 

 gated bearing barren flowers in their upper half, and some of 

 them occasionally compound at the base the stalks longer than 

 the sheathing bracteas, scales mucronate, fruit ovato-triquetrous 

 with a smooth rather broad bifid beak, and two principal green 

 submarginal nerves on the outer surface. {Boott.) E.Bot.t. 1099. 



Dry heaths and moors, frequent. Fl. June. If. — Generally taller, 

 and in every part more rigid, than the last. Calyx-scales and especially 

 the fruit, more highly coloured, the latter more acutely triquetrous, 

 with two nerves near the margin on the back, which are always green, 

 though tiie rest of the fruit be more or less brown. But there are states 

 of which Mr W. Wilson and I scarcely know whether they should be 

 referred to the one or to the other. 



39. C. IcBvigdta, Sm. {smooth-stalked beaked Carex) ; sheaths 

 elongated shorter than the flowerstalks, bracteas fbliaceous, 

 fertile spikes drooping cylindrical, all the scales acuminated or 

 mucronate, fruit ovate triangular striated with rather a long 

 acuminated beak bifid at the point. E. Bot. t. 1387. 



Marsiies and boggy thickets in several places both of England and 



Scotland. Anglesea. Near Belfast. Fl. June. If 2 — 3 ft. high. 



Leaves broad, but rather short. It has rarely more than one sterile 

 spike, which is always triquetrous. 



