344 woNOiauA — tetrandkia. ILittorella. 



the flowerstcilks, bracteas foliaceous very long-, sterile spikes about 

 "2 remote, fertile oblong remote sessile, scales imicroiiate, fruit 

 oblong acuminate striated rough at the margin deeply bifid at 

 the point, stem smooth bluntly angular. Host, Gram. Austr. 

 V. i.p. 57. t. 76.— C. secalina, Wahl—Schkuhr, t. S. f. 65. E. 

 Fl. V. iv.p. 1-26. 



Small valley about 3 miles west of Panmure, Forfar, rare ; Mr T. 



Drttmmond. Fl. June; "U About 1 foot high, with vory long bracteas 



over-topping all the spikes. Sterile spikes slender ; fertile stout, erect, 

 about 3, the 2 upjjer ones often approximate, the lower very remote. 

 Fruit large, resembling a grain of barley, whence Host's appropriate 

 name, which is, too, older than that of Wahlenberg. 



62. C.patuddsa, Gooden. (lesser common Carex); sheaths none, 

 bracteas very long foliaceous, calyx of the sterile spikes obtuse, 

 fertile spikes cylindrical obtuse, fruit oblongo-ovate acute bifid 

 at the point striated. E. Bat. t. 8D7. — C. acuta. Curt. 



Banks of rivers and ditches, common. Fl. May. If . — Two feet or 

 more high. Leaves very broad, keeled, rough. 



6a. C.ripdria, Curt, (great coinmon Carex); sheaths none, brac- 

 teas very long foliaceous, scales of the sterile spikes acuminated, 

 fertile spikes scarcely pedunculated broadly cylindrical acute, 

 fruit oblongo-ovate striated subacuminated deeply bifid at the 

 point. E. Bot. t. 579. — C. acuta, Huds. 



Sides of ditches and rivers, common. FL May. If— Larger than the 

 last, with much broader leaves and spikes ; and well distinguished by 

 the acuminated scales of its sterile spikes. 



8. Elyna. Schrad. Elyna. 



1. E. carkina, M. et K. (compound- headed El i/na); spikelets 

 aggregate compound. — Kobresia caricina, Willd. — Schcenus mo- 

 noicus,E. Bot.t. 1410. 



Moors, in Durham and Yorkshire. On Cronkley fell and about 

 Widdy bank in Teesdale Forest. On Shroine-ach-Lochan, Perthshire. 

 Fl. Aug. If. — Scarcely a span high, densely tufted, with narrow-linear 

 leaves, shorter than the naked stem. Bracteas and scales remarkably 

 convolute, brown. Genneii oblong, scarcely trigonal. — E. scirpina of 

 the continent is a 2d sp. of this genus. 



MONOECIA— TETRANDRIA. 



9. LiTTORELLA. Linn. Shore-weed. 



1. L. lacustris, L. (Plantain Shore-weed.) E. Bot. t. 468. — 

 Plantago unijlora, L. 



In watery, "/andy, and stony places: particularly abundant on the 

 margins of the Highland lakes, where it forms a green turf. Fl. June. 

 7/ . — Leaves all radical, linear, fleshy, semicylindrical, about 2 inches 

 long. Scapes several. Sterile ft. so'litary, sometimes 2 (Mr W. Wil- 

 son), upon a scape 2—3 inches long. Cor. white, with the tube inflat- 

 ed. Fertile ftowers sessile in the axils of the leaves, surrounding the 

 sterile scape. Germen oblong, green. \Style wery long, filiform. Stigma 

 a mere point. 



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